Mythic Raiding Needs To Change

[Branchès-zuljin]

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@Dobi-emerald-dream

Private Auras were an attempt to curb mechanic trivialization by limiting what can automatically be solved with a Weakaura. However a key consideration was overlooked in doing so: quite often a programmatic solution has been a requirement, because of how encounters have been designed (while the interface has remained stagnant).

Need to spread six 25 yard bombs in 6 seconds on Neltharion? Good luck self-organizing without any tools.

100%.
Private auras didn’t even solve the issue of programming-based mechanic solving/delegation. They just made it MORE complicated by exchanging 1 weakaura for 3 weakauras, a repositioned/resized zone minimap + overlay, a macro, and a list. Adding 50 extra pulls to the start of prog for each boss with private auras is always a fun endeavor. Blizzard has failed the raiding community with private auras for sure.

@Dobi-emerald-dream

But as we know… the core of any encounter is your interface. This is where Blizzard has too long relied on the community. They started to remedy this in Dragonflight, but have a long way to go, especially for encounters. Default raid frames are still inadequate for many classes (especially Augmentation). They need more customizability and they need to be performant (so we aren’t relying on addons that aren’t). Party frames are in the same bucket. Friendly NPC nameplates are clunky and don’t work well enough. Blizzard should continue developing more types of frames to reduce some of the need for WeakAuras.

Absolutely. As a healer I will die on this hill. BLIZZ STOP ADDING NPC HEALING FIGHTS UNLESS YOU GIVES US TOOLS TO BETTER HEAL THE NPCS. Allow elvui/vuhdo/grid/etc to hook into NPC boss frames for healing.
Overhaul raid frames that are barely hanging together with toothpicks, paperclips, bubblegum, and prayers. Fix the issue where someone joining during combat makes your frames completely scramble/duplicate/hide, it’s been broken like this for over a decade.