WoW Should Display Addons To Others.
Similar to viewing others gear or talents, players should be able to detect what addons are installed or active. This will inevitably help those not keen to what addons they should consider using or at least know what they are up against.
There is no question Addons have given players a significant advantage. These advantages should be easy detect to other players. Whether they are in the open world, M+, Arena, Raid or wherever else. In my opinion, WoW should not remove all addons nor can they make substitutions for all of them in the base UI. This may remain the case forever, so what addons other people use should not be kept secret like a “??” Level.
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There should be an addon for that.
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I’m surprised there isn’t an addon for that
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I am not sure if this would be helpful considering that some of the most important “addons” I have are private weakauras only available to one gnome on the planet.
I mean would you just see “WeakAuras 
” because that could be anything
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If they ever did this I would install as many addons as my computer could stand to try to overload people who dare inspect my addon list.
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Probably.
Sure, but it might be something to those without WA. It’s good to show to new players, who would be new to addons or somehow unaware of.
Certainly there’d end up being work arounds like an auto search or showing commonly installed or something. Plus not everyone would do that.
Uber casuals don’t understand this. Literally almost everything advantageous is a weakaura.
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You can make addons check for themselves or other addons, but it’s reliant on addons being coded to be checked for.
As an example, RCLootCouncil lets you check everyone has the addon enabled.
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That’s a good point but, I’d still want to see what addons people use even if it didn’t provide an advantage.
High key, high rated pvp, mythic raiders would generally agree addons help streamline and optimize crucial information… I mean we can downplay the role other addons provide and say it’s just WA. Though regardless, literally everyone should be able to see each other’s addons so they can be the judge of what they should consider using if any at all.
Many addons already let you do that if you use the addon. There’s even a way to see if others have installed the same weakaura as you. Anyway, you can look at the top addons downloaded for around the same result. There’s not much secrets really around this.
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And they won’t add this in the base UI, it is very situational use at best.
So everyone would need an addon to see other players addons?
Sure maybe? If anyone wants to make that addon. Which I’m not sure anyone really care to do as again it is very situational at best.
Situational like new players new to the game is enough for me
I mean you can download curseforge and see what top addons people use and see if you need it, for me that’s the best way to go around it.
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No. I can name my AddOn something vulger and there ain’t a thing you can do to hide that. The fact insecure code is allowed to access C_ChatInfo.SendChatMessage(...) is bad enough.
AddOns currently communicate with each other via C_ChatInfo.SendAddonMessage(...)
People would start loading fake addons with suspicious names just to troll others who inspect them. Support would be flooded with people reporting others for supposedly running addons that make all characters naked, or show the player’s real name and account info.
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This would be information overload. A list would need context. Which wouldn’t happen.
While weak auras is the cornerstone of my UI…I do have like 50+ other add-ons installed. From a pet battling one, etc
A list wouldn’t show what is important or pulling the most weight. It would make them all appear equal by just being another name in a list.
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I’d actually like to know who the hell is looking at my stats or whatever!
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