Jdouci:
I don’t see what my rating has to do with this topic because there are many things that are fundamentally wrong with OBR.
It is way too powerful than it was intended.
I will link my post from another thread about this.
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So I went back to the interview with Ion where he talked about the feature:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hqJ210XWeU&t=66s
"There will be a small GCD penalty. We want to make sure that this is for accessibility purposes … Ideally, this is NOT a tool where someone is told by their raid leader to stop trying to DPS manually and just turn on the One Button mode to meet some DPS check … "
As it stands right now. LFR, Normal and Heroic Raid leaders will absolutely tell literally everybody to turn on OBR because it will make them perform better than executing a manual rotation which is not the intended purpose of the feature.
“OBR is supposed to be a learning tool”
I think it’s clear by now, that people who use OBR do not pay attention to what buttons it’s using, they’re just mashing it and maybe pay attention to something else.
Therefore OBR does not encourage thinking, it replaces it.
Which, again, doesn’t matter in trivial content like leveling, world quests, LFR, etc. However when you reach more challenging content, you should know what you are doing.
If you let people use OBR for a month and then took it away, those players would be no better than when they just started playing.
Tanks and Healers do not have access to a similar feature.
Since OBR can only perform a DPS rotation, it has made the easiest role in the game even easier which has made tanking and healing comparatively more difficult than it was before.
What DPS player would even try to dip their toes into tanking or healing after they get used to OBR? The jump in difficulty will become completely unreasonable. So if you think the DPS queues are insufferable now, I can assure you it’s gonna get a lot worse.
Good.
Very good.
The moment people realise this is very viable way to Play - that moment Blizzard is forced to take action and prune the buttons bloat and change specs to be much more fun to Play then they are now.
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