Are you and your friends in the top 1% of players? If not then you don’t need to worry about a dps loss.
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All sarcasm aside, he does have a point there. I’ve mentioned it before, but I am a huge fan of Wildstar’s combat system, where you have to choose an active loadout of x abilities from a wide array of class abilities. Which means that your particular loadout has to have all the utility/damage options you would likely need on that specific raid boss or in that dungeon. It’s a cool system for a combat mechanic that is designed around movement and aiming your spells as skill shots rather than classic TAB targeting. It’s fast paced and fun, and there is a certain skill involved despite the lower amount of abilities.
That being said, WoW’s combat is not really designed around moving (moving disrupts combat most of the time), and it’s a Tab targeting game that auto-aims all your abilities. It’s the classic Everquest design paradigm, not a modern combat system where fewer spells wouldn’t necessarily mean less skill expression.
Out of curiosity.
Crash
Blast
Spike
VT
Pain
Death
Torrent
Plague
Da
PI
That’s shadow’s barebones DPS kit. You can maybe argue pain doesn’t get pressed much but even still that’s already 9 buttons. You probably want at least 1 defensive, 1 mobility skill, 2 utility spells, and you’re a priest so you can’t exactly go without a heal. That would leave 5 buttons for damage.
I can’t even begin to describe how mind numbing Shadow would be to play with 5 DPS buttons. The current 10 aren’t exactly that nuanced / complex either.
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what excatly are you angry at? I don’t read any changes on the single button rotation, it works the same as it has before.
It’s just that the simulations are showing that as player power grows, the button will get further behind, which makes sense if you know how those numbers interact mathmatically
Then there are the obvious; you are worried for 40% dps loss, but the rotation doesn’t use your cooldowns, meaning that if you do use your cooldowns, your dps loss won’t be 40%. You are worried about the DPS loss, but the one button rotation does not change targets for you, assuming you will, this dps loss will be even further mitigated.
Your one button rotation likely will not respond correctly to all your procs, if you do, the dps loss will be even further mitigated.
What is happening is you are seeing a number on a piece of paper and get so spooked by the size of the number that you’re not considering how you can influence this number.
I bet you can close the gap pretty good if you target, cooldown and cc/interupt correctly with the button assistant
Depending on the spec. Just by pressing incarn in the right place on balance for example you get the entire mythic+ rotation to about 80% efficiency.
Cool, you guys should go play angry birds
Gonna need a source on that one.
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The one butten should not be in the game.
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It’s fine for casual content as is… but people asking for the GCD penalty removed so it’s used in higher difficulties are just being a bunch of clowns.
Want to do higher difficulties? Learn your rotation.
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There are already specs where it performs sufficiently to do very high content using OBR and a small amount of manual involvement. Which is equally a problem.
It’s a great accessibility / casual feature, but it needs to be curbed where necessary to make sure that’s all it’s doing. In some cases more than it already has.
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This group strikes me as the kind that will end up saying things like git gud and learn how to play. While they push one button.
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If you want to be competitive with one button you need to learn to make your own GSE sequences. Takes a different kind of skill but you will have earned your spot at the top too.
Get plenty of such people in pugged Heroics, going “Let’s go already, it’s only HC lol!” while the RL is explaining the fight, and that person dies to the most basic mechanics…
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As healer i hear this all the time.
Its only a 7. Zug Zug. Half of them cant avoid the bombs in motherload and die cos they were not prepared for the tank to pull two groups and cant think all of a sudden.
That was my last run about an hour ago.
Its only a 7. Brain dead content that is pee pee easy. Yeah we timed it but i am at a point where i want to get better times so i can move up to 8 and with public groups like that i am not getting anywhere.
I am seriously starting to question whether i should continue to heal PUG’s and not just stick to a pre-made. Whenever i get with people who know what they are doing the runs are silky smooth and nobody dies. Close calls ect, yes. But nobody dies.
PUG’s rarely go that way. There are most of the time at lest one that appears to be in over their head and dies a few times.
I cant afford a death as healer so i do my best to stay alive even if it means a DPS dies.
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Eh, you and your fellas missed the pont of what the “One Button” is meant to be used for. Not our or Blizzards fault 
One button is SUPPOSED to have a DPS loss by design
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The GCD on one button assistant should be increased even more, I’d say make it 4x
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In Rift, back when it was new at least, it was pretty much required to macro all the abilities into one to three buttons (depending on class/soul loadouts) because the macros would be much more efficient and faster than if you were to press the abilities yourself. I don’t want to return to a game where you’d only press one single button for the entirety of the evening.
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Not really sure what the OP was expecting with the one button assist.
A “click to win” button? 
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I bet the OP has every auto play game on his phone.
And be a “teaching tool”, not something to be used as high as 17 keys.
This game wotn last much longer with a design philosphy they are displaying. They want to make this as easy as possible for people so more people can get onto treadmills. Then when they are firmly planted on those rails they will increase the difficulty once again to force littl timmy and little jonny to go back to buying runs in M+ and raids.
It is clear as day that people buy runs. Blizzard just want their disgusting cut