ConsolePort makes World of Warcraft comfortable to play with a controller

After a few years of lapsed subscription, Midnight's launch lured me back into World of Warcraft. Working from home, what I want most at the end of the day is an escape from my desk, keyboard, and mouse, and thanks to Blizzard's gradual controller support, volunteer gamepad-centric addon creators, and low-latency game streaming, I've been playing WoW with a controller from my couch—and it works really well.

The crucial component is ConsolePort from creator Munk, which transforms the fairly barebones native gamepad support that Blizzard's been dabbling with since 2020 and fleshes it out with a fully featured, gamepad-centric UX. My typical action bar has been replaced with FF14-style clusters of abilities mapped to gamepad buttons; with modifier buttons to access alternate sets, the controller provides more than enough bindings after Midnight's class pruning.

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