Sigil of spite (https://www.wowhead.com/spell=390163/sigil-of-spite) requires to moove a cursor (green circle) to a zone where it’s used.
However, one single button assist actually automatically uses this ability on your current target lol. Same for other circle/cursor placements abilities like Sigil of flame…
This also makes talent Precise sigils useless ( https://www.wowhead.com/spell=389799/precise-sigils) because one single button puts sigils on your target anyway lol 
This means that one single assist allows to save time on using circle placement abilities (because you don’t need to waste time on placing cursor/circle) and make it always hit the target without missing since it puts the ability right at your target centre…
Fix this, please. Assistant shall not provide such an advantage
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macro it… same for DnD can drop it where you are with one click…
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there is no macro to make an zone ability to be used on target lol. Blizz made sure no one will bypass it, i searched for such macro for years and no one has it.
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I noticed it also on hunter. Volley, while being an AOE, is cast instantly in the middle of the target. Traditionally you either have to sacrifice globals, one press to show the green circle and one to cast, or you can cast it instantly with a @cursor macro sacrificing accuracy.
However, it kind of makes sense that they would use internal apis to implement it. Otherwise, you could just recreate OBA with a macro.
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you mean that with the new assist feature which makes position casts on target we can have macro in near future doing the same? Because until now there was no such macro to do it
/cast [@target] SpellName
Doesn’t this solve this “advantage” ?
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AOE casts on target were already available before this feature, just not via the publicly available APIs. Precise Sigils and warlock’s Rain of Fire talent are 2 examples of enabling this using internal mechanisms. If they make it possible via macros, then they’d also have to rework some of these talents.
I mean that is pretty unfair.
I’m personally not the biggest fan of abilities that require you to use the green circle.
That and the fact DND doesn’t move with you is the reason I don’t like to play blood
For AOE casts like Rain of Fire and Sigils the only thing you could do to help was to cast on cursor location, that type of Macro doesn’t work.
Like /cast [@cursor] Efflorescence
if you use /cast [@target] Efflorescence it doesn’t work and just tell you to chose the location, like if there was no macro at all, it just ignores the @target directive.
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Unfair advantage, perhaps. But it’s also fairly limiting in AoE situations. Same counts for Shadow Priest and their Void Clash. I rather just put it at a specific location, though.
Interesting. I’ve basically only been using @cursor so I haven’t noticed.
Maybe they could fix so it works, then it wouldn’t be an “advantage” anymore. ^^
console port add-on has done this for years I’ve played with it for a very long time, it has its disadvantages though it bugs out on occasion and you’ll place it on top of a pillar in an arena or something, additionally you may want to place it slightly ahead in the direction of travel it the dead centre of the reticle it on the target with a 1.5 second eruption or activation time they’re likely out of it so yes it has its ups but also its downs.
Macros exist, you can drop it at your feet which is what I do with my DH… and said DH does a lot more DPS via macros without the Assist button.
No idea why they’ve yet to make such a macro function tbh… like Shadow Crash, instead they made it two separate talents [at target and at location].
I think there’s two reasons, not that I necessarily agree with them.
1: PvP and freezing trap in general being too strong as instant unavoidable hard CC with no skill expression from the player to offset it. So bliz chooses which abilities get @target versions on a case by case basis.
2: Blizzard wanting players to make a choice between versatility and consistency. Needing a target has it’s downsides, which is the trade off for no longer needing to aim. If you could macro @target shadow crash for example you’d likely need to have free aim shadow crash keybound as well.
They’ve ran testing and the OBR has a 50% parse on mythic raid bosses and has been used live on stream to climb to 2400 in solo shuffle
So much for it just being a tool to help people out in heroic dungeons and delves and stuff, it’s legit just a damage bot.
So when is the “aim accessibility” feature, aka aimbot or aim assist coming to Overwatch? There are people who can’t play that game because of slow reaction time, it’s overdue frankly, give everyone aimbot.
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So this is used in PVP as well now?
I exclusively heal M+ so this kinda ticks me off that people get to push a single button and almost go afk barring swirly’s on the floor.
All the while i am pressing on nearly every single global as resto druid using my brain.
The workload differences is insulting to healers and tanks to be frank.
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Yes, streamers are doing live “one button challenges” to hit 2400, and supatease has started a video series on the same thing
It works quite well with Pala tank
