What gives? I see absolutely 0 merit in this add-on other than DPS passengers wanting to put their stamp of approval on your route and feel like they are important/someone cares what they think.
If the route is different than they were expecting how much is this going to help them? Are we supposed to believe this is going to help them line up burst windows or something on the “new” route?
Or is this add-on just the equivalent of the guy that wants to take up cycling and decides he needs that Lance Armstrong suit to look the part before he even buys the bike in the first place?
It’s just a way to pre-plan routes, I find it super helpful if I wanna communicate to my group where I want to skip or exactly what needs to be CC’d ahead of time. It also helps me keep track of exactly what I need to pull if I want to reach 100% forces without over-pulling too much. I’m not sure why an add-on like that would make you mad? are you sure you’re not mad at a person (people)?
Edit: I run everything off memory, I have an incredible knack for remembering #s. From every class I was in I can tell you everyone’s birthday still…one hell of a super talent that served me not at all in math.
Well you did call it the dumbest add-on ever. Either way, I don’t think it warrants that much vitriol. No one is forcing you to use it; if they are, don’t run with them.
I really don’t understand your criticism of the add-on. It seems to be that a DPS player linked you a route, and you didn’t want to use the same route and that frustrated you which has nothing to do with the add-on.
It’s a really straightforward planning tool, I’m not sure what criticism you could level at it.
It seems you are pretty set on your mind that you don’t need it and just want to feel warranted that its garbage.
Anyway - its nice that you remember your pulls but every person is different, if someone is used to using an invis pot in a certain place and you dont - they know they can use another DPS pot there at higher levels, helping you kill things faster. -They cannot read your mind.
It removes the need to communicate has it has been pre planned that everyone can see - you see DPS has nothing more than things needed to kill mobs.
Like construction - the plumbers need to communicate with the electrician and others, when there are blueprints they can just do there job off of that and won’t need to keep talking to the contractor or other workings slowing down work.
But when it gets right down to it: If you are just doing 10’s: then no its probably not needed, but the higher you push, the better the addon becomes.
I could give you a big list of benefits and we could argue back and forth… but judging by my experience with a lot of people in forums that would probably lead to nothing, and based on your posts your mind seems already set.
So what I will do instead is turn the tables, you say it’s the dumbest add-on ever, but Jdotb actually thinks is one of the best addons to the point of calling it “the most helpful M+ addon of all time”. All due respect, I think he has a bit more credibility and say about M+ that any of us, so if you disagree then I believe it’s on you to prove your point and convince us.
Here are a few pieces where he talks about the addon:
it lets you see all the mobs in dungeon with % given and on top of that which are infested for that week (which i doubt even you could remember 12 weeks of rotations infested placements) and since week to week most people will change pathing depending on what is infested since that can waste a huge amount of time.
Also lets you play what to CC and tell people early when to invis pot or shroud etc ahead of time so people dont get there then you say now we invis pot then they still have DPS pot on 1min cd thats 1 min you lose because of no pre planning.
So you link a route to people and they take 15-30 seconds before the dungeon to memorize what every pull is going to be and when to invis, what to CC and or other?
How many different ways do you handle Infesteds? There is very few weeks where it isn’t beneficial to kill them in place with no CC and AoE stun the Ghuun’s.
In fourteen years the only addon exploit I’ve ever heard or seen was from WeakAuras which is a good lesson on why you don’t copy/paste randoms strings from strangers without understanding what you’re copy/pasting.
I cleaned 1700 bugs off of my son’s computer after he installed add-ons for World of Warcraft. His account also got hacked because one of them had a key logger in it.
If it isn’t made by Blizzard, I don’t recommend installing it.
Uh huh. Your son got 1700 bugs just from WoW. How old is he? This is like when my dad used to yell at me for slowing down the computer by installing games and he thought the only way to delete them was to reformat the computer.
Or after we got broadband he would still yell at me to “shut off the internet” so he could take his phone calls.
Hum, I guess there’s always a possibility of that, but sticking to well-known addons is usually a safe bet, I use a lot of addons and never had that issue, and most streamers I’ve seen do as well, pretty sure their account is worth more than mine yet I don’t see them getting their account stolen or anything like that.
Also, pretty sure addons only load once you actually log on a character not when login in to the game, plus I do it through Battle-net app for good measure anyway so not sure if a key logger would even be effective but I’m not too knowledgeable about it so I guess it might.