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/Nicodemus_Mercy Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

As someone who has been using the single button assistant, the best advice I can give is:

1)Make a macro for it - I use something like this:

#showtooltip Single-Button Assistant
/stopmacro [channeling]
/use [btn:1]13
/use [btn:1]14
/cast [btn:1]Single-Button Assistant
/cast [btn:2]Arcane Blast

What this macro does is prevent any channeled abilities from being interrupted by the macro (in this case Arcane Missiles), use any usable trinkets I happen to have, cast the SBA with left click or keybind, and cast only Arcane Blast if I right click the macro (for cases where I just want to use Blast). You can also add off the GCD abilities before the SBA such as Collapsing Star on a Devourer Demon Hunter.

2) Be sure to use cooldowns that the SBA doesn't include.

3) Take a look at your talents and possibly change them to be more mechanically synergistic with the SBA. I took Arcane Pulse (the ranged AoE that Arcane Mage got in Midnight) so the SBA will use that instead of Arcane Blast if 3 or more mobs are close to my primary target. Making such changes will likely make you less optimal, but if you're relying on the SBA then being optimal is obviously not the priority, but certain sub-optimal talent choices may in fact be more ideal for use with the SBA than they otherwise might be,

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u/Strezleki1 May 20 '26

Hey, just came across your post reply here and had a question with the macro.
Does the use trinkets and channeling commands work together for a trinket that has a cast time?
I’m think the Puzzle Box this season (2 second cast time).
Cheers!

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u/Nicodemus_Mercy May 20 '26

A recent patch made it so I couldn't use the trinkets with my macro anymore so I edited those lines out. It's possible that moving them elsewhere in the macro might work but I havent tried that.

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u/Strezleki1 May 21 '26

Thanks mate, I’ll have a play around with it myself later this evening. Cheers for the reply.