Now your using Heroic Garrosh as your "plateau" for people to call you out? That is hilarious. I am sure you said the same thing with 4 Horseman, Muru, LK, etc etc. At this point you are trolling, or incredibly dumb.
He is probably ranking because he just tunnel visions everything like most clickers do, and they get carried by good healers.
Wrong, I prioritize fight, the fact you collectively resort to ad hominem proves how little you have to stand on.
I use HC garrosh as the plateau because of how little benefit is offered from switching - yes I have switched, for multiple weeks at a time on multiple occasions. No visible benefit. I know first hand I gain nothing from switching and it's people who can't have a serious discussion who are calling me out, which is why this is getting pointless. I won't suddenly start failing because you all shout loud enough, neither will any other decent clicker.
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The fact you seem to think you "switched" multiple times for multiple weeks is very laughable. I seriously doubt you even play as competitively as you believe, so far you've shown me nothing to prove otherwise either. Clicking is vastly inferior, in close to all situations. You're talking to someone who has experienced both clicking for a number of years and keybinding too. I noticed a large difference a long time ago.
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I used to play multiple hours per day everyday, I now play a lot less but "multiple weeks" is a LOT of hours on that schedule. And competitively? No I've never been that competitive, doesn't mean I couldn't rank though. Even running a social guild I find I was ranking most weeks until others got the gear bump this patch that I've yet to catch up with.
Using your mouse to click a mob, click each dot, click the next mob, click each dot, all while not standing in anything and handling mechanics correctly is several times less efficient then simply clicking a mob, using your keybinds to dot, and clicking the next mob.
Not to mention your extra action button is another thing you have to click if you're a clicker.
The biggest issue I see with clicking is that it'll usually mean you're also a keyboard turner. Keyboard turning is god awful. I don't believe the difference between clicking and keybinding is minuscule at all. Its a huge playstyle change that makes you better suited to handle different situations. Not saying its impossible to be good and a clicker, but I am saying that 99 times out of a 100 a good clicker would be a great player if he just keybound.
Last edited by Notdev; 2013-10-09 at 03:00 PM.
Well at least you aren't closedminded about it.
Clicking on multiple things per GCD isn't very difficult when you're used to it. Movement is usually easy to handle with a mix of keyboard turns, strafes, quick adjustments between GCD on facing, and autorun when I'm slacking. Jumps massively helpful too.
Due to GCD restrictions, the inefficiency seen by some does not need to impact on your performance.
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I've disputed this a few times, maybe this isn't a quick thing to pick up but I will always know where my mouse is while playing (or 99.9% of the time because .1% my cat knocks over my shelf and in the shock I hit my mouse away without realizing seeing wahts going on).
The largest DPS loss I've found (excluding hexos) from clicking is usually from targetting a specific difficult to target add among a load of adds, which is more a UI problem than a clicking problem for me that I CBA to fix.
As a druid healer i use 1-7 with my fingers, rest of my abilities are clicked.
Except for §, which is the only button i've keybinded.
I'm also using default everything. I've got DBM, skada, atlasloot, that's pretty much it.
Top progress on our realm, realm first last tier.
I've been playing this way since i started so i guess i'm very used to it by now, having alot of keybinds isn't my cup of tea.
Oh and for the UI stuff, as a healer i've got no idea why anyone would use anything other than blizz ui, it's great for everything. Shows all the debuffs that are important, shows my cd's i've used on the target, shows hp... rest is all about predicting who gets damaged.
I'd argue 0.2-0.8 seconds as more accurate. Clickers can use target macros too and cut that down to 0.2-0.5. I will add I don't shy away from tab targetting when things look hairy (often I find spamming attack with certain camera angles works out just fine for insta targeting)
Clickers i'd like to introduce you to hitting two buttons at the same time. there are so many specific cases you can't makro them all, wow doesnt provide that many bars or even makro spaces......
Keybinding > Clicking
For many reasons, all already mentioned in this thread.....
You can be good as a clicker but you will be even better as a keybinder if doing it right.
No... 3-5% worse in your guild MAYBE. You are doing a fuck ton less dps than what you could. Don't compare yourself to anyone but maybe the top guild on your server if they are at least top 300 world.
ITT: People who want to be a competitive DPS in anything, who also click, in denial that them clicking almost everything has maybe a 5% decrease in overall DPS. Also... 5% isn't a small amount over the course of an entire fight. Imagine if all the other people in your entire raid could do 5% more DPS... you could do heroics, or the last boss on heroic. It's a big deal, and if anyone wants to be competitive/TRULY good at the game, then you wouldn't click at all (unless it's like a buff or a mount). Sorry if this is seen as mean, but it isn't mean if it doesn't offend you.
Last edited by Klutzington; 2013-10-09 at 05:42 PM.
Just so we're clear.. when we're talking about clickers we're talking about people who click everything. Keybinding your main abilities and clicking your CDs, etc, is a pretty big difference from pure clicking IMO.
There's just so many situations where a clicker/keyboard turner won't be as efficient as someone who keybinds. High movement, multi target fights, where you're required to do things like interrupt while maintaining your DPS rotation, clickers will be at a disadvantage. Sure, you can say things like "I can make macros and click really fast and only be .5 seconds behind people who keybind" but those seconds add up. Throughout a fight it can add up to be several seconds of lost DPS uptime.
You're basically just using one hand to handle everything, whereas keybinders use both.