World of Warcraft: Current Year

Dom said:

With the spacebar... like everyone else. Why would I need to move my hand to it?

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Found a secret video showing Chris trying to play WoW with a keyboard

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Chris said:

How is wiggling my thumb slower than you moving your wrist/entire arm?

Moving backwards is actually way faster since you don't get slow walk backwards with a controller, your character instantly faces backwards and instantly runs.

Jumping is quick too since you just click the movement stick, don't need to move your hand to the spacebar or change keybinds for it.

Keybinds, I have as many as I want. 40 at the moment as healer but I'm filling up to 50 and can enable even more. ConsolePort shows the active ones on screen and cooldowns for all of them, so no need to remember them.

Face it, you are a cassette tape and I'm DVD.

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Dom said:

I queued up for a dungeon as a healer the other day, and halfway through I was getting bored because there wasn't much damage going out. I thought to myself that it was time to focus on getting enough ilvl to queue into heroics. Turns out it was a heroic and I had queued into one without knowing. That's how easy they are.

I also did 17% of the groups damage as a resto druid, because dpsing as a healer has mattered since MOP.

The point is that nothing you have said in anyway validates your controller usage. You are an active and willing handicap to your team. "good enough" is not good enough.

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Burns said:

Good thing your a healer, I guess. As long as you play particular specs, it sounds fine. Mostly. Not standing in void zones makes one better than 50%+ of the player base, alone.

How would you quickly set down ground target abilities (like warrior/DH/Rogue leap) or AoE heal, to best cover all the melee (like druid mushroom)?

On the other hand:

Tanks cant dodge/block/parry hits from the back, they need to be able to strafe (zig-zag if needed), leap, or backpedal (depending on how fast they have to move).

Melee DPS, in this set up (as you're dodging mechanics):
Target needs to be in front of you.
Target needs to be in front of you.
Target needs to be in front of you.
Target needs to be in front of you.
Target needs to be in front of you.
Target needs to be in front of you.
Target needs to be in front of you.
Target needs to be in front of you.
Target needs to be in front of you.
Target needs to be in front of you.

Hence, gimping your dps.

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Chris said:

I just set up the holy priest ground aoe heal spell, you can macro it to ignore the ground target circle and have it cast at your cursor in one click.

ConsolePort puts a little fixed crosshair on the screen for this reason, so you just move the camera with the right stick to have the crosshair be where you want the aoe to go.

Alternatively you can set it to cast at your feet which is good for some tanking aoes.

There's also two movement modes, so you can lock your character to always face forwards to get the behaviour you describe and even do something like bind strafe left/right to shoulder buttons or dpad. Melee is the easiest to play with this setup.

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Burns said:

Well, the addon sounds versatile, and after getting over the initial disgust of someone playing WoW on a gamepad, it doesn't sound that bad. Not something I would do, as, after years of use, I am far, far more proficient at using a mouse and keyboard, but whatever floats your boat and all that.

...and it's not like you are using a Wacom tablet or something totally stupid, like that.

Unfortunately, for you, the only acceptable way to prove everyone wrong, is to get into raids or M+ 10 (or higher), upload parces to WarcraftLogs, and link them here. Even then, I'm sure you will still get shit on by the shitlords here, unless you are a purple parcer (in part, due to all the shit you have been talking, about the superiority of the controller).

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Lunis said:

For anyone like me who was overwhelmed w/all the abilities coming from classic - try Gnome Sequencer addon. It's a macro addon that treats each 'cast' command as its own macro, meaning you can put multiple abilities on the same hotkey & it will cast the next one in line if the first is on CD.

Made my life a thousand times easier as a rogue.

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Chris said:

That sounds like it's against the terms of service and will be banned if it gets popular?

I'll definitely try that though, thank you.

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