Just like there’s a small minority that think they need numbers.
If people can’t tell the difference between colored shapes how do you think they are going to differentiate numbers of the same shape?
Considering each shape is usually a different mechanic they need to be different.
So what you’re saying is you haven’t raided mythic since WoD and think addons aren’t needed?
Not a ton of credibility there.
“ These Private Auras will not be able to be assigned by Weakauras. “
So you’re saying they can be assigned by weak auras?
No, but that’s not what you wrote in your post:
Oh right my use of “ect” warranted this.
Okie.
I am so confused
The fact is that Blizzard’s implementing these private auras means the best players in the world can find ways to deal with this. Those who are not so elite and skilled, or who do not have professional programmers at their fingertips, do not have the best organized and coordinated groups, not so much. This will definitely hold lesser players back. Working as intended.
Articles on fan sites are badly written. News at 11.
“abilities that could not be tracked via Addons or WeakAuras”
False.
“a new way to hide information from Addons like WeakAuras, making it impossible for them to use and display certain debuffs and boss mechanics”
False.
“While the player will still be seeing the debuff on their UI themselves, a WeakAura or BossMod won’t be able to detect this debuff for a custom-made visual or auditory warning.”
False.
“It also prevents developers from creating tools that will automatically assign markers to players with these debuffs”
Mostly true!
“or use a pre-written list to give multiple players different assignments based on their position in the list”
False. At least in Aberrus.
“While the debuff was not trackable by WAs, it still showed on the raid frames. By showing the entire raid’s frames in a list, debuffed players were quickly able to see what number (from one to five, top to bottom) they were.”
This is splitting hairs. People didn’t manage the private aura mechanic on Neltharion with raid frames, they did it with a weakaura.
“Although this was a solution that exclusively used in-game tools, others used a second screen that showed each of the positions”
The map aura also allowed you to re-assign positions (which we did) but you really didn’t even need it. The simplest Heart assignment positions was something like “clockwise 1 to 5 starting on the front left” and I even started having our raiders do that just so they wouldn’t have to spend precious time looking at the map weakaura.
I think people over-complicated Mythic Neltharion with that BDGG weakaura.
“Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible, only had three Private Auras that were hidden in this way: Rending Charge on the Forgotten Experiments encounter, as well as Volcanic Heart and Rushing Darkness on Echo of Neltharion.”
I want to point out here that, for Rushing Darkness, not only could weakauras track all the people with it, but could also assign 1 of those players to be the wall-breaker.
I stopped reading there.
Pretty clear that the article writer did not raid Mythic Aberrus.
Anyway, hope that was insightful.
I think we all did. lol
They just make things efficient, like weauras. Sure, I could stare at the tiny default buff icon for Tidebringer talent above my character frame (while a bunch of other buffs are juggling around, good luck with that during a hectic fight), or I could download a weakaura for it and put it near the center of the screen where I can always see it easily. That’s not a crutch. If you want to play optimally, you’d be gimping yourself not using addons in certain niche cases like when you want to see a buff easily.
I must be reading the wrong threads. Ive never heard of “Private auras” before this thread.
Do a forum search for ‘private aura’ to see a selection. But 99% of what you’ll find is nonsense.