The Single-Button Assistant will add an unremovable crutch

Ngl, Sod managed it better, u dont have too many buttons, but also you dont spam just only frostbolt

don’t forget that It will make gameplay much more boring because spamming 1 button is not very exciting, it will do no good
Improving is also exciting but it leaves no space to improve as it does everything for you…

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Only time I’d use it would be during events with throwaway alts, like Remix or TW runs for the x200 tw badges turn in, where I cba doing up a UI like I already do using GSE with one button macros.

i.e. trivial content people shouldn’t care about how people play them…

Hard to think of a worse reason.

I didn’t miss it, but the thing is that I strongly disagree with their take. That take is why we are in this mess and why it seems like a good idea to implement a 1 button rotation.

The lack of a 1 button rotation is the kick they needed to do something else with rotations, but instead their choice was… this. :upside_down_face:

Sometimes Blizzard is just wrong. Very wrong in fact. This is one of those times.

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I don’t know if others share my “hatred” for the feature, but to me it’s the wrong design decision. Instead of opting to create a magic 1-button, they should instead have designed every single spec from scratch to both have a lot fewer actions, and to also frontload most of the (non-cooldown specific) performance to 1-2 spammable actions. The whole builder-spender design together with procs that sometimes have priority over it and sometimes under it should be cast aside.

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With a few important caveats:

Some classes are designed to be builder-spender from the start and should remain so. Warriors, rogues, monks, and rets spring to mind, and of course druids when they are in shape that emulate them.

DoT classes also have some considerations here with internal timers being integral to their gameplay, but of course this should not mean proc hell.

These few buttons should switch up depending on what you’re fighting. AoE calls for different abilities than cleave are different than ST, and being forced to move also changes what you should press.

But yeah if it’s just a target dummy doing nothing to you, wreck it with 2-5 abilities with max 1 proc and usually 0, absolutely. And then we don’t need Hekili because now it’s simple and the complexity comes from your enemy which Hekili cannot help you with.

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Sounds like a you issue. Seems like a perfectly valid reason to me.

For what ungodly reason does a positive reception of a movie about someone handicapped being perfectly capable of playing a WoW justify a 1-button rotation for handicapped people?

It makes less than no sense to me.

Didnt even think about this. It will be amazing for alts

How is fire too complicated? It’s near enough combustion and 3 rotational buttons right now, you spend 70% of your time just pressing 2 instant casts.

No would be my only thought. As a disabled person its great to have but it must be limited.

Because that’s the best build, but Fire also has things like Sun King’s Blessing (SKB), where there is no in-game hud to display how many procs you have and where the buff icon for building SKB is the same as the one indicating you have SKB. Nobody is speccing it right now, but it exists.

Additionally it has some weird interactions that are very similar to the old sealtwisting.

Fire also cannot deal single target damage. Same as Frost and Arcane.

Didn’t they add this stuff in the cooldown manager?

Uhhh… not sure? Could be.

I don’t use it because I think it displays a lot of things that aren’t actually cooldowns… for example they display an icon for Ice Lance… ??

Oh, there are 3 different tab categories, if you check it in the UI edit. The one with icelance on it can be disabled/hidden

I’ll check it out tonight. Right now I’ve got 3 action bars taking care of it and the setup is a bit awkward, but I’ve been using it since 2007 so it obviously works…

It started in 2007 when I played mage and I hid all my action bars except the primary one which had all my CD’s (yes, they fit!) on it

Then in 2008 I first installed Bartender in order to see CD’s for my druid regardless of shapeshift form

In 2012 I switched to Dominos.

Since then it’s been shrunk, grown (primarily, lol), moved around a bit etc. but it’s never really changed.

Does it show trinket and other item CD’s?

People who want to opimize more than what the one button allows, will do just that. The people who will use the one button religiously are most likely people you aren’t playing with anyway.

I am that guy who chooses passive talents and trinkets as much as possible to have fewer buttons to push. I am also not the guy signing up for raids with a higher difficulty than LFR.

This button is for me, when I can’t upgrade this character anymore and decide to level another alt I haven’t touched since last expansion instead.

I am not in your groups

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Why not? I just watched a video of a Ret Pally blasting using one button. Blasters like that are exactly who I want in my groups.

I am sure. :slight_smile:
I was just trying to address the concern people had with “one-buttoners” joining groups.

I actually tried the feature briefly on the PTR on another alt I made years ago and only now levelled via the Winds of Mysterious Fortune event. Turns out, I was playing it all wrong. I only used whatever was off CD usually, the 1-button suggested otherwise and actually gave me an AHA-moment.

I think this feature can be more benefical than destructive in the long run. I didn’t bother to look up optimal rotation for an alt I just levelled for funsies, and I probably wouldn’t have done so either. This tiny feature made me play better.

I wonder if the Blizzard version will just execute a sequence like what GSE says it does or if it will be more “intelligent” by watching your resource bar etc and make more complex decisions (So what would be like GSE + Hekili combined.