There are private self made addons that show people’s account data. You don’t know anything. Ofc it doesn’t show behind the ***'s which makes them obsolote anyway. Kinda.
That’s a bunch of nonsense, though. Encounters aren’t harder because of addons.
Encounters are harder because players are better.
Remember Mythic Star Augur and his matching symbols mechanic? The thing where Blizzard deactivated friendly nameplates?
That same run-and-match-or-die mechanic is on Anduin, right now. It’s not even a Mythic mechanic, it’s lethal on Heroic.
And people handle it just fine without addons helping them.
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hey, you keep my name out of this.
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They can ban addons when they make an actually decent default UI. Ridiculous that i have to stare at my portrait in top corner of my screen to see my holy power or combo points
Weakaura to put holy power in middle of my screen? Absolutely yes please
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You spell Fookí fook?. Sober up mate!
Not sure how you can call it nonsense when it was literally a talking point during the Ion/Asmon interview? And again it was a big conversation with the game designer Morgan Day a few years prior. If game designers are making mention of how challenging it is to design raid fights around addons, I don’t really know how you can state that it’s not significant to this line of topic.
If they aren’t critical, do you play without them? I’m not talking about the cleaning up of the UI addons or the weak auras for individual character that are similar to a heads up display in the middle of the screen. I mean DBM, weakauras that track all cooldowns in PvP, weakauras that negate gameplay mechanics, and things that generally give you a leg up on players without them. Players are definitely better, but you can’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining when it comes to addons not being a part of that.
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people who need to be off the forums
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addons and weakauras arent a issue unless your an asmongold simp.
please do us all a favor and uninstall if you cant use common logic and see how those have made the game more welcoming and enjoyable for people while also allowing blizz to make better bosses that arent tank and spanks.
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There is a faction of embittered players in WOW that want every “advanced” feature of the game to die so that they can play the game they played 10 years ago. They refuse to update their mentality for how competitive the game has become.
This is the same group that tried (very hard) to get raiderIO banned.
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There’s some merit to some (not all) addons. I have to have an addon, in order to counter another addon, and I shouldn’t have to do that. The Guild Invite addon promotes spam culture, and it’s not being addressed. Spam is spam and should be treated evenly among the rest like the boosting ads. These guilds cross a line, when they invade people’s whispers.
This is a great point.
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I wouldn’t hold your breath. blizz’s ui is pretty bad, and they’ve given no indication whatsoever that they’re capable of designing something great.
huh?
hilarious how hard that one backfired on them
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It’s interesting that you list these add-ons- and yet I know way too many people that use them and all such at the game.
So I’m not really sure how enabling they are.
They give you information - but you still have to react properly to that information.
Unless they actually play the game for you - which macros do a better job of - I have a hard time understanding why they should be removed/ limited.
I know you won’t see this but in the in game menu there is a box you can check that turns off guild invites.
I know what you said. I just pointed out that’s not why the creators made them, that’s not why it’s a guild requirement, and that’s not why people want them banned. The issue is that blizzard is designing the content to require Dbm because they know people have the addon. people with disabilities point is moot. They require the addon because blizzard is designing content that requires them to have the addon.
And have to use something like xpearl, or whatever it’s called to get the 3d look lol. After all these years why that hasn’t been added without using an addon idk lol.
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WoW is already very new player unfriendly. Why add to that? Having require addons for mythic plus and raiding doesn’t help.
Even something as basic as using the AH is ruined for new players. New players shouldn’t need to create an account for TSM and then download a 3rd party app. New players then have to spend 3 hours setting it up.
WoW needs a good base game if it wants to growing again.
If anything I’d rather see a more intuitive UI. It took us how many years to get heal bot functionality makes into the game? Lots of boss signals and visuals are queues off the earliest mods in ICC that color coded zones.
WA is honestly fine, all it does is offer screen or sound alerts under specific conditions. When I have 2500 buffs rolling and falling off constantly, it’s nice to know when to fire off icy talons.
DBM is fine, but at this point they need to direct newer players to its existence. LFR and Normal have been ramped in difficulty to the point where you need it. Combat complexity is the worst it’s ever been this xpac.
One of the good things about WoW is the addons and the modding. It would be nice if they improved the UI.
I avoided downloading WA up tell this patch, there is no way to do the Amongst Us phase in the raid without it. Also the Anduin Color match game would suck without DBM making all the players “/say” what Color they are.
Need to stop with the silly “ban all Addons” talk and start pushing Blizzard to upgrade their UI or change game design philosophy.