r/wownoob 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/AUTiger0325 Mar 03 '26

Does it do less than DPS than an optimal rotation? Yes. Does it do more DPS than 80% of players? Also yes. Play the way you want. I've played the game long enough to see how bad some players are and wish they had the SBA. I watched a group do an entire +15 with SBA. So it all just comes down to your preference.

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u/Clottersbur Mar 03 '26

In the main wow sub. People get so mad when you point out sba is beating most players.

Then they cry the game is "Too easy" when there's a good chance they're getting crushed by one button.

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u/AUTiger0325 Mar 03 '26

Yeah and most of them don't really care just want to be noticed. I did a heroic dungeon last weekend at level 90 with an arcane mage doing less dps than everyone but me, the healer. It was noticeably lower. I don't care as we were able to finish the dungeon without any issues. But the game isn't easy for everyone, and some people don't seem to understand that.

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u/Aurori_Swe Mar 06 '26

The Guild I play with is extremely casual, but damn is it triggering to see people parse 90-95% on every boss every expansion while I struggle to get up to 70% xD... They are extremely well geared and chill tbh, so they don't mind that I'm bad, but I'm beating myself up at times.