They just have to utilize some of the macros in there in the add-on like Rarescanner uses target for rares.
Hey, I’m was even willing to concede yesterday that not all add-ons were bad, but that Blizzard needs tighter control over them. But PvP content should normalized for everyone. Blizz already goes so far to not allow you to use many items and will remove conjured items from your bags. Why not block macros and add-ons too?
As a warrior, I do not have access to things like mage food or warlock healthstones. Players having those in their bags is an unfair advantage.
As a player, everyone has equal access to addons. There is no unfair advantage.
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You can’t silence me from using a totem. You can have an addon, however, which auto-targets my totem and you just bap it.
You don’t even need an addon do to do this. Can literally do it with a macro.
Have you ever tried healing without, at the very least, mouse over macros? That’s why. No macros no healers.
Let me reiterate this. If a class’s main functions or utilizations can be auto-targeted by a macro or an addon PERIOD, the class has failed in the theory-stage.
The class can no longer function. Someone just casually baps their main mechanic with no effort.
Druids do not summon DoTs that can be shot down or summon stuns. Shamans do.
It’s not like they do it just to spite these classes. /target works for any targetable thing in the game. Explain to me how you would code it so it only works in some circumstances but not all?
Add in exceptions in the code. People do it all the time.
If X then Y.
Why are we thinking someone is using an addon when they’re just using a targeting macro. 
Because both exist.
Silence prevents you from using totems, yes. Also, tabbing and targeting your totem and killing it is not overly difficult. Especially if it’s a big one like grounding, which Gladius notifies me that you dropped.
Totem stomping has been an aspect of countering shaman for as long as the game has been around. If you see cap / grounding, you tab and kill it. If you see skyfury, you tab and kill it. If you see link, you tab and kill it. Me seeing a totem that needs to be killed, and actually killing it, is not somehow unfair to you.
Look at that. AddOn help. /thread
Except you have no proof they were using an addon, you were just assuming.
Look right above. 
Gladius doesn’t target anything, it just notifies by reading the combat log.
You can also do it with weakauras
You will never get rid of my /target Counterstrike totem macros
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An addon which is sanctioned by the AWC and seen as fair use. Gladius notifying me that you dropped something, and addons calling out something like someone being low health is not against TOS and never have been.
Anything that allows you to gleam things before others would otherwise be unaware of to have an advantage over another class should not be allowed. Which is the point of the thread.
“Ping, it’s there.”
-Clicks macro. Or AddOn auto-selects it.- “Not anymore.”
Such skill right there. You’re totally outplaying me. No. You’re getting help for something you, otherwise, would suck at.
Everyone has access to these macros or addons. It’s not unfair just because you decide not to use the tools available to you.
“I have a screwdriver, but someone with a drill is better than me”
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