Blizzard Feedback: Single-Button Assistant and Assisted Highlight Mode in Patch 11.1.7

Posted 2025/05/01 at 6:16 PM by Archimtiros

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In the Legacy of Arathor PTR, there are two new ways to interact with the game, the Single-Button Assistant and the Assisted Highlight mode. These are designed to help new players, players who are trying out a new specialization, or those looking for additional guidance on ability usage.

These new modes only manage your damaging spells and are primarily designed to be used by damage specializations. Both will still function if you try them out as a tank or healer, but they will only cycle through your damage abilities, and not any of your healing spells or survival abilities.

As with the new Cooldown Manager added in the 11.1.5 update, these will continue to evolve over time.

Single-Button Assistant

The Single-Button Assistant is a new spell you can click-and-drag to your action bar from the top right of your Spellbook and then use just like you would any other spell on your action bar.

This Single-Button Assistant will cycle through a prioritized list of abilities that your character knows and automatically use them against your current target. To see the full list of abilities that your current specialization will use, you can right-click on this ability while looking at the top right of your spellbook to expand or collapse the list of spells that will be cycled through. Using this Single-Button Assistant will impose a penalty to your Global Cooldown (GCD).

Assisted Highlight

The Assisted Highlight is a slightly more advanced version of the Single-Button Assistant. To use this feature, you will need to enable the “Assisted Highlight” option in the Advanced Options tab in the Gameplay Options menu.

The Assisted Highlight doesn’t automatically cycle through your abilities for you like the Single-Button Assistant does, but rather it recommends a button to press for your next action by highlighting a button on your action bar with a green border. There is no penalty to the Global Cooldown (GCD) for using this mode.

Design Guidelines

The Single-Button Assistant and Assisted Highlight modes do a lot of things, but they will not fully play your character for you. There are several decisions we made about our expectations for what these functions perform or recommend for you:

The Single-Button Assistant and Assisted Highlight modes will:

Adjust to abilities you know from changing talents and include them in the cycle of abilities used or highlighted.
Swap between single target and AoE damage spells based on proximity of enemies near your primary target.

The Single-Button Assistant and Assisted Highlight modes won’t:

Move your character around in the world, or use any mobility buttons like Blink, Sprint, or Heroic Leap.
Change targets for you if your target dies or you want to debuff multiple different enemies.
Use major offensive cooldowns like Avenging Wrath, Bladestorm, or Ascendance.
Interrupt enemies or otherwise use utility or crowd control spells.
Heal your low health character or use defensive abilities.
Use any trinkets, potions, tradeskill items, or other similar items in your inventory.

Feedback

The useful feedback we’re looking for are:

Your thoughts on abilities that are used improperly in a sequence
Abilities that are not used at all
Any bugs you encounter

Thank you very much for your testing and feedback!

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Comment by SinestriaThe Single Button Assist will just add another layer of complexity to joining a raiding guild.
Time to start doing interviews again where they're required to show performance in a discord stream.

or maybe just more log scrutiny to see if one can tell if its using SBA or not.Comment by MiauMiauThis reads so distopic. I don't want to play with people who completly automate their gameplay with a single button.Comment by JohnTraboltaI'm sorry but anyone who is complaining about the 1 button rotation feature needs to get a life. This isn't going to affect anyone who already knows how to play classes/specs. This is literally for the super casual players who mostly play to collect items/mounts and do the story stuff. This is a great feature for those players and blizzard should be patted on the back for bringing them this feature.Comment by ManchildbabymenThe Single Button Assist will just add another layer of complexity to joining a raiding guild.
Time to start doing interviews again where they're required to show performance in a discord stream.

or maybe just more log scrutiny to see if one can tell if its using SBA or not.Comment by orryerI'm sorry but anyone who is complaining about the 1 button rotation feature needs to get a life. This isn't going to affect anyone who already knows how to play classes/specs. This is literally for the super casual players who mostly play to collect items/mounts and do the story stuff. This is a great feature for those players and blizzard should be patted on the back for bringing them this feature.Comment by NagisaStreamsI'm sorry but anyone who is complaining about the 1 button rotation feature needs to get a life. This isn't going to affect anyone who already knows how to play classes/specs. This is literally for the super casual players who mostly play to collect items/mounts and do the story stuff. This is a great feature for those players and blizzard should be patted on the back for bringing them this feature.Comment by JohntheBarbarianThe Single Button Assist will just add another layer of complexity to joining a raiding guild.
Time to start doing interviews again where they're required to show performance in a discord stream.

or maybe just more log scrutiny to see if one can tell if its using SBA or not.Comment by MarkElfMaybe people will stop telling noobs to play BM/Ret and play what they want with this.Comment by ShammyrenI'm sorry but anyone who is complaining about the 1 button rotation feature needs to get a life. This isn't going to affect anyone who already knows how to play classes/specs. This is literally for the super casual players who mostly play to collect items/mounts and do the story stuff. This is a great feature for those players and blizzard should be patted on the back for bringing them this feature.Comment by novadudeare they straight up copying gse? lolComment by AkiyamaLightIf the game is now at a point where normal people need a feature like this just to play, maybe Blizzard should start thinking about why that is.

The reason is that classes and specs are currently overdesigned, with redundant buttons, effects, and procs. They need to clean up all classes and reduce all these useless buttons. Go back to the basic 3–5 button rotations—no double or triple effects on abilities. Just clean up the entire game.

Blizzard listening to the top 0.001% of players who treat the game like a job is what caused all of this. And if they keep listening to those people, they’ll eventually end up with only 0.001% of the player base left—since the game will be designed for them, and not for the other 99.999% of players.Comment by Heroicveninext up: Dodge Swirlies automatically but at 10% reduced movement speed!Comment by Nirvanna21Perfectly good addition. My only minor complaint is including movement skills as those should be situational.

For example, in our guild we do AOTC, but we have some who are not as good DPS wise who could be less of a carry if they make use of this. I ultimately think it takes away some of what WoW makes up for in engagement but I am not gonna complain if a bunch of people do better than normal for less effort as I can still enjoy playing with my rotation.Comment by orryerOur raid guild really needs this to help kill heroic bosses. We really struggle with all the content in the game, can't even do M+ -- one button macros will help our solid grey parsing performers.Comment by zomgzIf the game is now at a point where normal people need a feature like this just to play, maybe Blizzard should start thinking about why that is.

The reason is that classes and specs are currently overdesigned, with redundant buttons, effects, and procs. They need to clean up all classes and reduce all these useless buttons. Go back to the basic 3–5 button rotations—no double or triple effects on abilities. Just clean up the entire game.

Blizzard listening to the top 0.001% of players who treat the game like a job is what caused all of this. And if they keep listening to those people, they’ll eventually end up with only 0.001% of the player base left—since the game will be designed for them, and not for the other 99.999% of players.Comment by sethsevenOur raid guild really needs this to help kill heroic bosses. We really struggle with all the content in the game, can't even do M+ -- one button macros will helps be solid grey parsing performers.Comment by wagewar55Instead of that they should make class trainer’s relevant again and have them give training scenarios and/or teach players optimal skills and rotations. During this process they can explain how they work together.Comment by ShaneTheInsaneThis reads so distopic. I don't want to play with people who completly automate their gameplay with a single button.Comment by Wolfaxe451I'm sorry but anyone who is complaining about the 1 button rotation feature needs to get a life. This isn't going to affect anyone who already knows how to play classes/specs. This is literally for the super casual players who mostly play to collect items/mounts and do the story stuff. This is a great feature for those players and blizzard should be patted on the back for bringing them this feature.Comment by AkiyamaLightIf the game is now at a point where normal people need a feature like this just to play, maybe Blizzard should start thinking about why that is.

The reason is that classes and specs are currently overdesigned, with redundant buttons, effects, and procs. They need to clean up all classes and reduce all these useless buttons. Go back to the basic 3–5 button rotations—no double or triple effects on abilities. Just clean up the entire game.

Blizzard listening to the top 0.001% of players who treat the game like a job is what caused all of this. And if they keep listening to those people, they’ll eventually end up with only 0.001% of the player base left—since the game will be designed for them, and not for the other 99.999% of players.Instead of that they should make class trainer’s relevant again and have them give training scenarios and/or teach players optimal skills and rotations. During this process they can explain how they work together.

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