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!
