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With World of Warcraft being released on nVidia GEForce NOW, and my own ownership of a Steam Deck, I've begun mapping all of the Mouse/WASD controls to the steam deck. Fortunately, Steam has robust controller mapping on the deck.

I've been pretty successful, except for one thing - I'm looking to map the "Pan up" and "pan down" of character perspective.

So far, I've been able to do a combo with the joystick. Moving the right joystick up performs a combo of

  • Left click
  • Move mouse to relative position (after some tweaking, +25 and -25 pixels seem to be a sweet spot)
  • Enable turbo - at most I can repeat every "10", which I imagine to be 10ms. This is the highest frequency available.

The problem here is, this is choppy. I also worry that rapid-repeat click drags to consistent areas may get my account bot-flagged.

Is there an official option from World of Warcaft for non-mouse users? They've implemented a lot of functionality since I "quit" 5 years ago. . . Including an "Interact" keybind that has been helpful.

Alternatively, is there a mapping option within the Steam Deck I may not be thinking of to emulate this input?

I'd like to avoid solutions that use AddOns, because they would not be practical with the platform I am using to play.

For those curious as to why I want to play WoW on a Steam Deck, I just want to chase achievements and farm. My raiding days are behind me.

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  • Left and Right are easily done with "character rotate", which are "A" and "D" by default. Up and down are another story.
    – Turbo
    Commented Jun 11 at 19:34
  • By the way, you can run WoW through Proton on the Steam Deck, you don't have to run it through GeForce NOW. I love playing WoW on the Steam Deck!
    – Kidburla
    Commented Nov 23 at 22:24
  • @Kidburla I was doing that for a while but the patches were a real pain!
    – Turbo
    Commented Nov 27 at 16:34

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It turns out, you can change the entire "Joystick" characteristic.

I had the joystick set to "Directional Pad", which is why I had to macro mouse movements to it.

You can change the joystick to a "Joystick Mouse", which solves all of my issues after you map "Hold right click" to the joystick as well.

I will update this answer with pictures when I have the chance.

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