I started playing WoW in burning crusades and began as a clicker. I don’t think I moved to keybinds until wrath of the lich kind when I wanted to be more competitive while raiding. Edit: if you’re curious about how I transitioned to ketbinds, started as a level 1 mage and forced myself to level to cap using only key binds. Slowly being introduced spells helps. Also, I eventually got a 12 side button mouse and the rest was history. Still use the same mouse today for every game I play WOW like every other game has a group of elitist people that will judge you on everything you do. Ignore them. For them, all they’ll ever have is this game and their shitty repulsive attitudes until they grow out of it or they don’t and end up alone. Do you.
I'm a clicker and my guildies are more impressed than anything that I'm able to do +25s and end mythic bosses - currently 6/9M. I bind 4-5 main spells (which is the core rotation/buttons for 99% of classes) and click CDs and defensive, there is so much time to press these abilities and react that you can point and laugh at people that can react with their keybinds.
The point of video games is for enjoyment. If you find more enjoyment by clicking abilities rather than utilizing keybinds then there's nothing wrong with that. It's disgusting to me how so many people are so closed-minded and incapable of critical thinking or rational thought that they put players down for a choice like this. ( You are different, you are wrong!!! : Said literally no-one on the good guy's team in history ever. ) Keep clicking King. Do what makes you happy and fuck literally everyone else who feels the need to impose their playstyle on you. - Keybind user.
The problem is WoW is all about being Meta and being the best at every aspect of the game. Some people want to play for fun, if that's how you play the game comfortably just do it bro. We all don't play the game to be World First!. In the end it's a game, big like to this vid!
You play however you want that's no one else's business, but one thing is true, you are an underdog if you're a clicker, that's just a fact. You can even be a great player being a clicker but you'll just never be as good as you could as long as you remain a clicker. All that being said if you don't care to be the best you can at this 20 year old MMO (which just means you're sane TBH), just keep playing however you like. Personally I'm a bit of both, mostly use keybinds, but do some clicking too and I've never had any problems be it PvE or PvP.
I mainly use keybinds and use clicking for long CDs, like Heroism, for mounts, professions and skills I use rarely, like Far Sight, Waterwalking etc. As you hinted at: Clicking will just never be as fast and precise as using your keyoboard for using your spells. But as long as your group is fine with it, play however you like.
It is fair to click instead of playing the game with keybinds if you don't intend to really become good at the game and just casually play for fun. Most players get triggered, because if you want to get good, yes clicking is horrible. Also, the comments you showed didn't say your opinion was bad, they were just triggered by the clicking. The comment section should be a place where you are allowed to voice random things you noticed, found funny or whatever. Your main takaway from those comments should be (imo) that people don't like watching clickers, it is fine to do, but it doesn't make for nice background footage
You can click all you want, just don't join my groups because clickers play the game objectively worse. It's not just a gameplay choice, it's a form of self handicap.
Nothing wrong with clicking if you just play WoW casually IMO, but if you do want to give keybinding a go, there's no need to bind everything at once as you won't remember what's bound to what and a lot of it is just muscle memory. I'd start by binding your most used/spammed abilities, even if it's just one or two of them, then slowly build on that. That's what I did when I moved over from clicking to keybinds. Even now I click some abilities that have very long cooldowns or I don't want to risk fatfingering (like Bloodlust).
There's a very popular video documentary on YT called "Why it's offensive to suck at WoW" and if you think there's nothing of value to take away from the rest of my comment then at least check that out.. IMHO those people's comments you showed weren't really flaming you, they were just laughing at you, you'd totally get called names if they were flaming you. You taking offense is an entirely different thing. I don't thing there's much of an issue doing 1 cast once every 1.5 seconds as a clicker. The issue is the mouse travel and clicking accuracy when you have to do a few things in less than 1.5 like interrupting a cast that'd wipe the group, activating a spell off the GCD and keeping up with your standard casts on the GCD while re-targeting. Also do you use set focus? Any macros to cast on focused target? Also Idk if looking at someone clicking is really that distracting, but I do find the jaggies from the low in-game render resolution distracting. Maybe you're playing on a low resolution display and therefore all the elements are much closer on the screen, i.e. less mouse travel? That'd be quite the advantage for a clicker.
I mean it's fine to click your buttons, but when it comes to the point that you are ruining the experience for others , by halting a dungeon/raid/pvp because your trying to look for your spells on the bar. I mean... that's on you. Kind of toxic to the other players when you go in to play with a group, and not even contributing what you could do better, miss a interrupt, standing in frontals due to being to slow to react.. just learn something that can make the gameplay easier for you and the others? Why make the game harder than necessary. It's like playing with an extra affix.
Nerf is in Liquid?? On the keybind topic. You are factually slower with clicking and less environmentally aware. There is no argument against that. You could always learn to keybind but if youre not willing to then it doesnt matter. Youll quickly reach a limit where you wont be good for certain levels of gameplay. The post on Wiki most likely is a meme post. Clickers are not the underdog, they're slower by nature. Also, if you have disabilities then it makes sense. You are allowed to. But don't argue that a clicker is as competitive as a keybinder.
you want to learn to keybind? create a new character and a new ui. so your keys are at the bottom. you cn use a weakaura in th emiddle of your screen like Luxthos's but keep they keys at the bottom. Dont use heirloom gear, and level. Make yourself move the buttons to your keybinds and set up your hotbar/keybinds to something that is as natural to you as possible. for me i strafe left and right with A and D Q is for stuns/bubbles ER, T is for taunt or Cleanse. 1 through5 is for main abilities i'm goin to us all thetime. 6 is mouse button, 7 is shift mouse button. 9-= are rebound to Middle mouse button, Shift scroll up, shift scroll down. middle mouse is for teleports warlock) or aoe interrupts like (blinding light for paladins) Shift scroll up is for buffs, down is for speed ups or divine shield/aspect of the turtle. Z is aoe, caps lock is for my interrupts like rebuke, kick, pummel, x is for personal speed boosts, c is for aoe, VR, T is on this ar, but same as above. Shif T, Shift V for buffs/defensives. I can go on, but this gives me decent ammount of binds, and lall the binds are the same for al characters. Level again like i said without heirlooms to give yourself tme to learn. heirlooms just excelerate leveling too much if you are looking to break this habit. Its going to take time an its giong to be frustrating. I've had to change bindings and even mouse buttons at one point and time. but 1 week of pratice every day and the frustration goes away. 2 weeks and you probably don't have to lok at your keybinds, espeialy if you have a weakaura, 3 weeks, maybe having started a 2nd character to level up, or just continuing with the first and it should feel comfortable. by 4 week, you'll wonder why clicking was ever your thing. hope ths helps.
Hey man don't give up on WoW because of clicking. I can't really use my keyboard much because of being dyslexic. So I bought an MMO mouse and keybound everything to that. It helps tremendously if you wish to try that may help.
I started playing WoW in burning crusades and began as a clicker. I don’t think I moved to keybinds until wrath of the lich kind when I wanted to be more competitive while raiding. Edit: if you’re curious about how I transitioned to ketbinds, started as a level 1 mage and forced myself to level to cap using only key binds. Slowly being introduced spells helps. Also, I eventually got a 12 side button mouse and the rest was history. Still use the same mouse today for every game I play
WOW like every other game has a group of elitist people that will judge you on everything you do. Ignore them. For them, all they’ll ever have is this game and their shitty repulsive attitudes until they grow out of it or they don’t and end up alone. Do you.
some people are just meant to work at Walmart.
lmao
I'm a clicker and my guildies are more impressed than anything that I'm able to do +25s and end mythic bosses - currently 6/9M. I bind 4-5 main spells (which is the core rotation/buttons for 99% of classes) and click CDs and defensive, there is so much time to press these abilities and react that you can point and laugh at people that can react with their keybinds.
Tell us you are bm hunter without telling us you are bm hunter :)
The point of video games is for enjoyment. If you find more enjoyment by clicking abilities rather than utilizing keybinds then there's nothing wrong with that.
It's disgusting to me how so many people are so closed-minded and incapable of critical thinking or rational thought that they put players down for a choice like this.
( You are different, you are wrong!!! : Said literally no-one on the good guy's team in history ever. )
Keep clicking King. Do what makes you happy and fuck literally everyone else who feels the need to impose their playstyle on you.
- Keybind user.
Geez yeah... But that's the game they want to play. Shitting on others. Unbelievable
imagine clicking your spells, what's next, clicking your spells by opening your spellbook first?
Mesmerize 😂
You keep on clicking bro. You do you.
this cat really hit em with the "Built Different" at the end. It's okay to be bad my guy
The problem is WoW is all about being Meta and being the best at every aspect of the game. Some people want to play for fun, if that's how you play the game comfortably just do it bro. We all don't play the game to be World First!. In the end it's a game, big like to this vid!
You play however you want that's no one else's business, but one thing is true, you are an underdog if you're a clicker, that's just a fact. You can even be a great player being a clicker but you'll just never be as good as you could as long as you remain a clicker. All that being said if you don't care to be the best you can at this 20 year old MMO (which just means you're sane TBH), just keep playing however you like.
Personally I'm a bit of both, mostly use keybinds, but do some clicking too and I've never had any problems be it PvE or PvP.
I mainly use keybinds and use clicking for long CDs, like Heroism, for mounts, professions and skills I use rarely, like Far Sight, Waterwalking etc.
As you hinted at: Clicking will just never be as fast and precise as using your keyoboard for using your spells. But as long as your group is fine with it, play however you like.
It is fair to click instead of playing the game with keybinds if you don't intend to really become good at the game and just casually play for fun. Most players get triggered, because if you want to get good, yes clicking is horrible.
Also, the comments you showed didn't say your opinion was bad, they were just triggered by the clicking. The comment section should be a place where you are allowed to voice random things you noticed, found funny or whatever.
Your main takaway from those comments should be (imo) that people don't like watching clickers, it is fine to do, but it doesn't make for nice background footage
Next level. WOW on a GameCube controller.
You can click all you want, just don't join my groups because clickers play the game objectively worse. It's not just a gameplay choice, it's a form of self handicap.
Cool, I don't remember how I went with the game years ago, but I might get back and play again. Sounds like there is game for chill play.
based and clicker pilled!
Nothing wrong with clicking if you just play WoW casually IMO, but if you do want to give keybinding a go, there's no need to bind everything at once as you won't remember what's bound to what and a lot of it is just muscle memory. I'd start by binding your most used/spammed abilities, even if it's just one or two of them, then slowly build on that. That's what I did when I moved over from clicking to keybinds. Even now I click some abilities that have very long cooldowns or I don't want to risk fatfingering (like Bloodlust).
There's a very popular video documentary on YT called "Why it's offensive to suck at WoW" and if you think there's nothing of value to take away from the rest of my comment then at least check that out.. IMHO those people's comments you showed weren't really flaming you, they were just laughing at you, you'd totally get called names if they were flaming you. You taking offense is an entirely different thing. I don't thing there's much of an issue doing 1 cast once every 1.5 seconds as a clicker. The issue is the mouse travel and clicking accuracy when you have to do a few things in less than 1.5 like interrupting a cast that'd wipe the group, activating a spell off the GCD and keeping up with your standard casts on the GCD while re-targeting. Also do you use set focus? Any macros to cast on focused target?
Also Idk if looking at someone clicking is really that distracting, but I do find the jaggies from the low in-game render resolution distracting. Maybe you're playing on a low resolution display and therefore all the elements are much closer on the screen, i.e. less mouse travel? That'd be quite the advantage for a clicker.
Made a whole video on why you're clicking rather than just taking 5 seconds to learn how to press 1-5 on keyboard. Respect king.
I mean it's fine to click your buttons, but when it comes to the point that you are ruining the experience for others , by halting a dungeon/raid/pvp because your trying to look for your spells on the bar. I mean... that's on you. Kind of toxic to the other players when you go in to play with a group, and not even contributing what you could do better, miss a interrupt, standing in frontals due to being to slow to react.. just learn something that can make the gameplay easier for you and the others? Why make the game harder than necessary. It's like playing with an extra affix.
Nerf is in Liquid??
On the keybind topic. You are factually slower with clicking and less environmentally aware. There is no argument against that. You could always learn to keybind but if youre not willing to then it doesnt matter. Youll quickly reach a limit where you wont be good for certain levels of gameplay.
The post on Wiki most likely is a meme post. Clickers are not the underdog, they're slower by nature.
Also, if you have disabilities then it makes sense. You are allowed to. But don't argue that a clicker is as competitive as a keybinder.
you want to learn to keybind? create a new character and a new ui. so your keys are at the bottom. you cn use a weakaura in th emiddle of your screen like Luxthos's but keep they keys at the bottom. Dont use heirloom gear, and level. Make yourself move the buttons to your keybinds and set up your hotbar/keybinds to something that is as natural to you as possible.
for me i strafe left and right with A and D Q is for stuns/bubbles ER, T is for taunt or Cleanse. 1 through5 is for main abilities i'm goin to us all thetime. 6 is mouse button, 7 is shift mouse button. 9-= are rebound to Middle mouse button, Shift scroll up, shift scroll down. middle mouse is for teleports warlock) or aoe interrupts like (blinding light for paladins) Shift scroll up is for buffs, down is for speed ups or divine shield/aspect of the turtle.
Z is aoe, caps lock is for my interrupts like rebuke, kick, pummel, x is for personal speed boosts, c is for aoe, VR, T is on this ar, but same as above. Shif T, Shift V for buffs/defensives. I can go on, but this gives me decent ammount of binds, and lall the binds are the same for al characters.
Level again like i said without heirlooms to give yourself tme to learn. heirlooms just excelerate leveling too much if you are looking to break this habit. Its going to take time an its giong to be frustrating. I've had to change bindings and even mouse buttons at one point and time. but 1 week of pratice every day and the frustration goes away. 2 weeks and you probably don't have to lok at your keybinds, espeialy if you have a weakaura, 3 weeks, maybe having started a 2nd character to level up, or just continuing with the first and it should feel comfortable. by 4 week, you'll wonder why clicking was ever your thing.
hope ths helps.
get good bro, and stop whining =D
bro is just a newbie and got confused by using his keyboard to do stuff except running xd
Hey man don't give up on WoW because of clicking. I can't really use my keyboard much because of being dyslexic. So I bought an MMO mouse and keybound everything to that. It helps tremendously if you wish to try that may help.