Well, considering I use Consoleport to play the game with controller, I wouldn’t be interested in playing without addons. Though with Blizzard gradually adding native controller support in DF and Blizzard soon becoming part of Xbox, I might not need it forever.
Realistically I don’t think many players would want to play without addons because the encounters are built with the knowledge that people have access to things like DBM. They would likely have to change their design philosophy if we ever lost the ability to use them.
I mean I healed and cleared normal raid without any addons and by that I mean I didn’t have Bigwigs and I wasn’t using WA strings.
So yes, we could function without them. I was doing keys without weakauras. The only WA I really use is class specific. I’m too lazy to look for the dungeon ones.
I use Leatrix, WA, BigWigs, OmniCC, Details, Decursive and Handy Notes.
As many will defend their use, if WA’s and DBM/Bigwigs were disabled the top dogs would not be doing what they do as well. Yes they have skill but part of that relies on that fact they have these addon’s telling them what to hit when, when certain things are active, when certain combos would be ready, and some have custom keybinds outside of normal.
now there is a line to how much addon’s should influence the game and WA’s heavily pushes that line. Many will argue otherwise but its facts. Part of the issue is that blizzard doesn’t give us a UI that works as well as we would want.
Sorry but no, some of us have bad eyesight and even with glasses or contacts the in-game text can be too small to read, being able to resize the text with an addon makes playing the game so much better. Having the ability to automate quest acceptance/turn in for content we’ve done a thousand times, or auto selling grey junk and auto repairs is a godsend. One size fits all is great for console games, but PC games have long been about mods and addons, just like the various combinations of PC components you’ll find out there. If you don’t like addons that’s great play the game how you like. But for the rest of us addons are like coffee and energy drinks…we can barely function without them.
I’ll never understand these posts about addons. If you don’t like them, don’t use 'em. “But, but they give others an unfair advantage!!” Well then, suck it up buttercup and start downloading the addons.
I suppose I could “get gud” and learn how to write macros for all of that, but that sure is a lot of work when clique just lets you, well, click and keybind your spells.