legion leveling addon-impulse review.
IMPULSE
is the latest add on from man view, a team that’s turning quite a few heads in
the industry with their growing suite of quality legion leveling addon products. Booster, tycoon and edge have all
received great reviews with a nearly flawless customer satisfaction rating, but
will IMPULSE fare as well?
IMPULSE
is, at its core, a key binding add on. The most basic feature allows players to
use a pre- designed list of key binds and macros for their particular class,
spec and role. As you can imagine there are a lot of different combinations
here, and IMPULSE promises a set up that is intuitive for each.
I can’t
say how well it works for every single class and spec in the game, but I tried
it on a few and I will admit it feels intuitive. I didn’t have to think very
much about it, and I was able to adjust to the key binds pretty quickly.
The
most involved thing I did was a heroic with guild mates, but I think with a bit
of practice I would easily learn the key binds well enough to increase my
performance in raids.
This is
one of the first add on I have seen where you actually have some say over how
the interface works out. When you first set up IMPULSE you choose what hand
placement you want. For example, you can use the basic set up which is WASD, or
you can use the FPS setup which is ESDF.
From
there most of the means by which the player interfaces with the product depends
on his or her personal interface. IMPULSE
auto- detects your spec and then fills out your bars with action buttons and
macros bound to certain keys depending on your setup.
And
don’t worry, for those of you who wouldn’t touch the default BLIZZARD UI with a
10 foot pole, it works with bartender and other popular bars add on. Because of
this I am giving a pretty a high rating for interface design. What doesn’t
integrate the blizzard or bartender or dominos UI is sleep and accomplishes it
purpose.
Rating
4.5/5
You are
probably wondering what’s so great about an add on that accomplishes something
you can do on your own. And you may have a point. You can set up key binds on
your own, and if you take the time you can customize them so they are easy to
use, intuitive, and made just for your needs.
But
really, who has that kind of time and room for trial and error? IMPULSE does it
for you, and throws in some great macros to boot. With just the macros alone
you could find your game play significantly improved but the key bind design
obviously has a lot of thought and research behind it.
The
best feature for me though is that if you don’t like any aspect of the set up,
you can change it. You can remove and rebind abilities. You can choose the
macros you do and don’t want. And if you decide to start over, just one click
and you are back to the default. This adds on definitely delivers on features.
Rating
5/5
I am going
to be brief with this one, because really…its man views. The customer support
hasn’t changed, though I will mention that they move from the open forum model
to a community where you can ask questions, report bugs, and brings your ideas
to the table.
I
actually like this model a lot better, to be honest. It’s straight to the point
a lot more organized, and you can easily see how quickly the moderators and man
view staff are responding to their community. Which, as always, is within 24
hours? Usually much, much less.
Rating 5.5
This is pretty subjective, because $40 may be
cheap for me but it may be expensive for you. However, you can easily compare
it to similar products that players use to gain an edge with accessing their
abilities faster.
I am
talking of course about gaming keyboards and mouse, which usually cost upwards
of $100. And frankly, even those won’t give you the same value as this does
because they can’t pick and choose the best possible setup for you. IMPULSE
wins on value hands down.
Rating
5/5
This is
a solid product that’s useful to pretty much every WOW player. Even if you are
still leveling your first character you can train yourself into good habits
while the rest of us are stuck breaking bad ones.
If you
are a clicker, this makes the transition far less painful. And if you are a key
binder, you would probably use some fine-tuning. All in all, IMPULSE is another
great legion leveling addon product
that gets the job done.
Rating.4.5/5.
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