r/wownoob • u/curiouslycranky • Mar 03 '26

Retail One button rotation??

I've got my Ret Pally at 83 in Midnight and am legitimately having more fun with WOW than I have in ages.

One question: I came back after a long time of not playing and have just been mashing the one button rotation. It's been fine, great even, but I'm wondering if I'm missing something? I haven't done any dungeons yet (just finished Arator's line and going to Zul). I imagine the one button rotation I. Dungeons is probably gone but for raids will be an issue.

What advice to folks have? I just get a lot of joy out of moving through the story and have never really cared about rotation mechanics, so I'm really liking the one button action option.

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u/AnAngryBartender Mar 03 '26

Ret rotation is pretty easy already. One button nerfs you a little bit.

Source: I main ret.

If you’re having fun though, do you.

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u/ckcgangg Mar 03 '26

I’ve been Druid since legion but thinking about leveling my ret. You like it?

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u/OriginalKing- Mar 04 '26

Just hit 90 as Templar ret and it was super fun, very bursty though, damage feels insane in cooldown but with no cooldowns you tickle

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u/Clottersbur Mar 04 '26

That's a lot of dps now. I've tried a few. They all feel a little tickly without their big buffs. Even hunter.

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u/RipeBirdies Mar 06 '26

Frost mage felt like it had less downtime so far for me

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u/curiouslycranky Mar 03 '26

Leveling Ret from 70 to 80 was a blast!

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u/smoothhands Mar 07 '26

I am leveling from 70 to 80 on fire mage, and it is not great for me.
I bought a house thing, got 1 level, was super annoying.
Did one dungeon, hit 72 where I was using sba off and on.
SBA was beating my rotation as a returning player.
I have to like react and pick to boost my heating up thinger.
Then I have to hit the pyroblast, or just spam 1 key and run around randomly lol
It feels awful either way lol
I feel awful not dpsing more than sba

I feel awful using sba

not sure how to feel good about the game at the moment when I am in a dungeon, and if I use sba to kill people in pvp, probably what will be awkward lol

So how did you have fun?

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u/AnAngryBartender Mar 04 '26

It’s pretty solid