"Clickers"

I played in WOW as a healer, dps, and tank. I played in some highly competitive guilds including server first guilds. I was consistently complemented on my quick response time and ability to "get out of fire".

I generally didn't tell guilds until after I had been in them awhile and taken over their main tank position that I was a clicker. It was always met with "BS" and "no way" and "I don't believe it". Even when I'd post a screen shot of my UI showing normal abilities used all over the place it took people awhile to believe it.

Can it be done? Yes. But from my experience 90%+ of clickers can't pull it off and still be competitive dps, or hitting their tank rotation and still interrupt 1 second casts, or reliably run out of fire.

When I switched to SW:TOR, I picked up a gamepad and started using it from day 1. It's a world of difference. I'm not about to say that I'm 10x the player I was before, I honestly feel like it's a minor end result in my game play if anything. What I will say is that it takes a hell of a lot less work.

As a clicker I had to be super-twitchy. Ready to hit off-cooldown abilities sometimes with less than 1 second from seeing the animation to execution. I pulled it off and interrupted regularly as a tank simply because my interrupt ability surpassed most key-binding dps, but it was hard and stressful. Using a gampad is like a walk in the park, it's not even remotely difficult now and I could easily interrupt a 0.5 second cast now.

End result - most clickers are slow, those who are fast are probably stressed to hell. Key-binders can be worse than clickers, but if done with proper skill can be having a much more relaxed time.

i click and seem to be first almost every time, so i really dont see an issue.

Play with good players

what a stupid responce

Do you click the skills on the action bars? Just curious as to what is meant by clicking.

It's the truth. The fella a few posts above spelled it all out. Also, you spelled response wrong, and at a very unfortunate time.

Yes, being a clicker is staring at the action bar the entire time to click on the next skill. A great way to enjoy the game.

yeah pretty much, I just have all my main skills on the left hand side of the action bar. I admit playing a melee class there is more of a downside but playing a ranged dps like sorc is just fine while clicking.

thank you for pointing this out, i will sleep well tonight.

You're welcome. Glad I could positively influence your life, friend.