If not, it really shouldnt be in classic live. Completely changes the whole learning the fight thing in a not good way.
Sort of… there was something else called CTMOD. Filled a similar role.
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Something very analogous was around, for things like living bomb, burning adrenaline or nefarians class call. A lot of boss mechanics weren’t on exact timers back then, however. I distinctly remember broodlord lashslayer preferred to roll a dice every few seconds and if it came up nat 20, a tank died.
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CTRA: CT Raid Assist
Didn’t BigWigs come out in Vanilla, or was that BC?
CT Raid Assist was the general public addon for raids, but many top end raids have inhouse raid addons that were much better.
Raid knowledge and tools/addons back then was more exclusive and many raid groups didn’t really share them out widely.
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I didn’t have DBM until BC if I recall correctly, but 100% I know I had BigWigs which was pretty much the same thing. I had that in MC and BWL.
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BuffWatch, Decurse, Healbot, CTMod, of these things a Vanilla raid was made.
There is no way to say “this addon is bad” and “this addon is good” except to change the API that all of them depend on.
The API did in fact change, considerably, such that what used to be allowed in Vanilla is no longer part of the game.
For example, in a re-write of CTMod/CTRA (that half a dozen people mentioned here) I did not bother recreating the “Emergency Monitor” that essentially automated who you wanted to heal. Yes, that was a thing in Vanilla. Yes, its also bad for the game, which is why the API changed in 2.0.1 to disallow it.
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DBM was in vanilla. It was called La Vendetta Boss Mods back then. BigWigs was also in Vanilla.
Wasn’t popular at the time tho. Most ppl just used garbage addons back then that only cluttered their screens and ate up memory.
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Classic needing DBM is like reading the instructions before driving a car. If you’re not already aware how it works coming into it, maybe you missed some steps.
I used DBM in vanilla. Other addons used included things like decursive and healbot.
There was some kind of boss mod that would warn you what bosses would do. I used it in ZG I don’t remember the name.
Yes. DBM and quite a few others were available at least by BWL.
They’ve actually broken some mods that automated things and made raiding even easier.
If you’re fighting for the classic experience you could campaign to bring these back instead.
So… mind explaining what DBM is?
Deadly Boss Mod. It’s addon that gives warnings and guidelines about mechanics during boss fights.
Considering decursive and buffsahoy played the game for us back then and that’s disabled DBM isn’t a big deal.
Besides we just had CTRA.