Gaming: World Of Warcraft: Midnight Player Proves That You Only Need A...

It might not be the most optimal option, but it's impressive that it works at all.

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A feature that a lot of players might overlook in World of Warcraft: Midnight is Blizzard's new single-button assistant. It's basically a way to play any class in the game by pressing one button as it cycles through various abilities.

Anyone who plays WoW for its hardest dungeons and raids, like mythic+, won't need something like the single-button assistant to play their class optimally, but it's a great tool for casual or disabled players who aren't interested in all of that. I gave it a shot during the betas and found that it's a surprisingly useful way to just get into the game and start playing without having to read a bunch of tooltips.

Most players claim it's only really good for damage-dealers and tanks because it's not smart enough to know when to heal your allies. But YouTuber Dvalin Gaming recently created a build that skips over that problem altogether. Their holy paladin build uses every AoE healing option in the book to keep their allies alive while only pressing one button.

Dvalin's build gets most of its functionality from the talent tree: They specialized in the Lightsmith hero talents to give several of their abilities passive healing by just using them. As they spam the single-button assistant, each attack has a chance to send out a heal or a shield to protect their allies. They take as many of these options as possible so there's no micromanagement required.

"We have nothing that gives insanely big healing but it's a lot of small healing from [different parts of the talent tree]," Dvalin says.

You can see a good breakdown of what's happening when Dvalin demonstrates how it all comes together in the second half of the video. As soon as they start pressing the single-button assistant, the healing starts to go out. Judgement is normally used for damage, but here it activates a barrier and automatically lays down a patch of holy ground from Consecration that occasionally heals anyone standing in it. Abilities that consume the paladin's unique resource, Holy Power, also contribute to the healing.

All you do is smack the enemy with anything the single-button assistant queues up and watch as the healing numbers skyrocket. I'm actually impressed that you can put together something strong enough to work in normal dungeons. I always believed people when they s

Source: PC Gamer