I saw a streamer introduced this addon and I feel weird that it looked like an auto attack. I am trying to make sure if this addon really able to be used in game or not ? it is an addon called GSE, and the streamer mentioned Blizz alllowed to use it. are we really safe to use this addon?
Id email the video to hacks@blizzard.com and stay away from it to be safe.
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It’s a macro addon.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/gse-gnome-sequencer-enhanced-advanced-macros
7M downloads, been around almost 9 years. Blizz would have broken it long ago if they didn’t want it.
Editing to clarify I’m not stating that as a deterrent, but as a comment that it’s a face-value safe addon, and so far has not bothered Blizzard. As I’m reading their material, it still acts within the game’s ruleset for macros, just gives you a bit of freedom to not need individual macros for different abilities and can have a litany of different abilities in the same macro, and just checks off down the list once its off GCD.
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Rember if blizzard doesnt like a addon they will break it but if it smells like automation dont risk it.
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If the addon is working inside the tools that blizzard gives then it should be good to go. They will stop any addon they do not like, they have done that a number of times over the years.
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That and addons are extremely restricted in what functions they have access to. It’s a real pain sometimes. On both the Vuhdo and Altoholic Discords, I keep hearing people told (in response to suggestions/requests) “that’s not possible to do within the WOW API, sorry”.
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If it runs entirely within the blizzard defined Addon API/Sandbox, you’re fine.
If it managed to break out of that somehow, that’s where you run into problems.
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TBF i dont use any addons aside from DBM and tomtom so it was a valid suggestion.
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