It didn’t.
Specific functionality is being removed in specific contexts.
The API will continue to exist and be officially supported.
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I mean that was the original idea that Ion gave, in April his interview with Max he explicitly said that the first step was building up the base UI and the last step would be reigning in addons. He also said that most addons you used today would be minimally impacted. Breaking a massive chunk of addons before they even have even the CD manager that was added in TWW finished is definitely not that.
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They said they are only going to disable certain addons during combat now. It’s a non issue
There “high end pusher” who already crying oceans bcs of this non issue, its hilarious.
Addons like WA are doing things they like and things they don’t like. They’re not trying to 1:1 replicate those addons. They’re trying to put just the parts they like into the base game and banish the other parts to oblivion.
As they should - if an addon isn’t adhering to their design philosophy and is undermining the intended experience - it should be banned and considered an exploit
People will always take the path of least resistance. If bliz gives an inch players will just use boss mods all over again. The hope is they design fights that are fun to play and give a challenge now that everyone will not be using addons.
These guys are just trolling, I refuse to believe that they are this much stupid.
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Is the issue that boss mods (what we were shown exist) or is the issue that it was so overwhelmingly over the top in what info it provided? Talking strictly bossmods not weak auras. Because this you’d watch the timer and identify how to react to the mechanic, rather then run away/frontal or whatever it shouts.
well you see its perfectly clear by this they meant. “YOU’RE GOING TO PLAY WITHOUT ADDONS.”
The issue is bliz making fight mechanics knowing full well people are using weakauras and boss mods. If we are forced to use only the information provided they could get more creative and hopefully make fights a bit easier mechanically. Think ff14.
All that’s being removed are an addon’s abilities to tell players what they should be doing during combat, Raids or Dungeons. That info is now in-game, as it always should have been. Any cosmetic or non-combat addons won’t be affected.
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Until one day when it doesn’t.
This isn’t me being an jerk or trying to bait anything, but you don’t see nothing wrong with the timeline boss mod blizzard is providing? I only ask because you dont seem to be responding over the top, but if it was cheating before Blizzard made it baseline I don’t see how people feel it’s not cheating now that it’s baseline.
As an aside, I actually mentioned this last night in another thread, but my brief time in FF14, I had countless people talk about cactbot, and I feel like it had to be far more common then people let on. I never got to end game raiding as I just didn’t enjoy the game prior to max level but it and whatever the damage meter was were pretty common to see mentioned out of game.
IDK where this quote came from, or what has actually been said on the topic, but it’s pretty clear that:
The game is obviously playable without add-ons.
Some of today’s add-ons give players a meaningful advantage.
Blizzard doesn’t want add-ons giving players an advantage.
Add-ons that are cosmetic are not a problem.
Never said it was cheating. Saying bliz having control over the information provided to us ingame can be a huge win. FF14 players using addons does not effect the fact that the boss fights in wow could be cleaner.
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I’m sorry I looked at a different comment and thought it was you.
As far them doing interesting things with bosses/mechanics I hope so also. I didn’t raid at all this expansion but I wasn’t a big fan of a lot of the boss mechanics in mythic plus. I know it’ll never be AS involved, but hopefully more fun across the board.
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And could easily be done without it, but that’s not the point.
Do you think Blizzard sat around thinking, “there’s no way to do this mechanic except with a weakaura that doesn’t exist but surely Stanzilla will create one - and he’d better because the mechanic cannot be done without it”?
Because that would be pretty bizarre, even for Blizzard.
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Obviously it could be done with WA. But WA trivializes it.
You’re intentionally overthinking it because you want to keep WA.
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