Reading comprehension is hard.
There is a section called Pre-Patch 2.0. This is for everything before 2.0. The next section is called Post-Patch 2.0. It is for everything from 2.0.1 onwards.
Basic grade school comprehension. All the things you’re asking for proof of existing in Vanilla, are listed there as being in Vanilla because the only thing before patch 2.0, was Vanilla.
1+1 = 2, not Apple.
Those scripts were blocked because they added the focus frame in that patch which served the same purpose. We either want the focus frame that is on the live servers, or the scripts that do the same thing that were in vanilla until the focus frame replaced them.
theres a reason why they patch before expansions and when the game goes live. I let you think the way you want though and I’m above the insults. go right ahead
You want? I don’t want.
I am ok.
How is it cheating. Really. You must not be to bright.
Is it really focus though? sounds like the scripts allow you to assign an id, which people used focus for. It could have been called baffle though, since you set them. So I would say that focus wasnt in the game, a script that allowed you to automate casting by assign an Id to a target was in game.
Looks like they removed something that allowed automation to me.
For people who dont know these scripts were also used by addons to create raid frames. Thats why they left the modern raid fraims in the game because otherwise there would be no way to make raid frames.
I just want them to do the same with the focus frame
Ppl that did not know blizzard stated they will be breaking some addons. Hmmm.
To be clear, “Pre-Patch 2.0” in that context has nothing to do with the specific “TBC pre-patch”. You can misinterpret it all you like, but none of the commands you’re listing as “Pre-Patch 2.0” worked in the “TBC Pre-Patch” and every one of the “Post-Patch 2.0” commands worked in the “TBC Pre-Patch” because that patch is where it changed.
I don’t need to “think my way through” but I’ll poke a hole in the wet paper bag to help you think your way out of it.
The thing you’re calling “focus” was called “focus” because that was the most common term and variable name that people used in macros. It was literally created to ensure that people still had the functionality that was available in Vanilla, after they introduced unit IDs and Secure Code.
The nomenclature came from Vanilla, not the other way around.
These did not automate anything. Addons used them for focus frames boss frames and raid frames. All of wich would not be possible without them. For raid and boss frames the game now does it for you and the addons or macros use the names the game made. In live the focus frame does too.
But it wasnt called focus in vanilla. it was a script that allowed anyone to set an id which could have been anything. I could have called my id tub, or rock. Basically it was a script that automated selections for you. I get that it was a great tool, but it is automation. Blizzard stated they were going to break things that automated too much. Which is what they did.
Working as intended from where i sit.
So you think they should remove raid frames? Because they do the same thing.
That’s what we all called it… Blizzard took our naming convention and formalized it when they changed the model.
Except that they specifically introduced the same functionality in 2.0 because they knew it wasn’t bad. Your argument is self-defeating because Blizzard reintroduced it. They didn’t break it.
They reintroduced it in TBC.
As you always post #nochanges
The functionality existed in Vanilla. #NoChanges
The “re” in “reintroduced” means it was there, and they brought it back.
So wait it automatically targeted and cast a spell on something without you losing your target?
How isn’t that automation?
except they broke it in classic, so its not self defeating its what they did.
That’s what focus does today. Still. Its not automation, because it doesn’t select your spell based on information. Blizzard didn’t break targetting, they broke spell selection.
This post is becoming more history lesson then technical explanation.
No it let you set the target ahead of time and use a macro to cast. It cant pick a target for you.
No thread should be about what someone wants personally, only making the game as it was originally. Doesn’t matter what someone wants to use “X” for. What you like or dislike what people do in the game is completely irrelevant. If it was in Vanilla and had a function in Vanilla regardless of any personal opinion of Good or Bad it doesn’t matter. It should be in Classic and function the same way.
Makes sense? Good
The OP made some factual points and all that matters is facts. How he uses Focus target is irrelevant. It needs to be in the game.