It is Time to Ban WoW Addons

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tell me if i am alone in this…

We’re all doing a Sanguine depths together right? The tank leaps ahead and pulls the first two packs. and pulls them back to the lantern for our Venthyr to activite…

How many of you seriously even see all the red beams and traps that clutter of a melting pot of mobs lays down and casts?

I for one just spam aoe and just back the f off… I cant tell jack :poop: whats happening…

Same in Theather of pain and all the puke farter abominations and their casts and aoe… I cant see :poop: I just tip tap toe around them as much as possible. and try not to die.

Thank god for that one addon that tells me to step out of :poop: and aoe incomming.

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I like addons.
No-one is forcing you to use them if you don’t want to.

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No, ofc Blizzard will not incorporate functions as many as 3rd party addons. But they are not all needed either.

Why so many other games don’t need addon, but wow needs? What is so special about wow that makes it completely different from other games, that wow can only be played with addon? Nothing, it is just a game, same as others.

All those 3rd party customize addons are not 100% needed. It is just that wow players are used to them. With simple improvement to basic functions, wow is totally playable without addon. And that is what Blizzard should do.

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Your doing Tazavesh as a noobie meele streets of wonder…

The adds put down the swirly mix master that you wont even notice until your one hit away from death…

Honestly is this good teleraphin compared to other mmo’s? No it really aint. Not in the cluster of :poop: we all have to deal with it.

You have like 10 mobs and their animations to deal with. Yet your supposed to tell this one abilitiy and meat cleaver has been cast down. So you can hit and run from it. The telegraphing is :poop: Even with addons.

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You mean the overseer chain, oppressor beam? I have no problem to see them.

I think you are talking about graphic issue instead of addons.

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I do… ALLOT of people do. How is your reply that you don’t suppose to help anything?

‘‘Oh well Beki can see em… Guess everyones full of :poop: Lets pack up and go home fellows’’

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How is it even related to the topic? :thinking:

You are talking about a computer config and graphic setting issue, which has nothing to do with addons.

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I am 100% to remove combat addons.

This game atm is just about addons, don’t have em go rip :smiley:

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its relvant to my first reply and statement. That Addons that helps the lack of telegraphin in this game is still something i support. Until the Telegraphin doesn’t melt my eyeballs and makes me require lazer surgery I am in all in favor of em.

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The reason so many people use addons is because the game does a poor job telegraphics attacks, especially in PvP, including your own class’s procs.

In PvE it’s quite a bit better but still by no means at the level it needs to be.

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Then the solution for Blizzard should be fix the problem itself.

Letting addon does so is to make a 2nd problem to fix the 1st problem.

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We agree… But do we trust that to blizzard in a thrad like this? Asking to ban addons?

If they ban them and don’t solve the issues that makes the need for them in the first place…
We’re all gonna have a bad time.

They can ban them upon popular opinion from streamers and threads online. But will that make their telepgraphing better and solve the needs for them in the first place? …Most likely not.

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Quite right. The lack of telegraphics is a huge part of the reason for all the addon spam. This is often discussed in the PvP community.

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Those guys in de other side that can blow you off the platform. I just have to take a chance whether I’m going to get blown off or not if I’m not pretty much in melee. Who thought it was a good idea to make their ability the same colour as the background of that place?

Then in the ardenweald wing, you have to turn down your graphics because if you have your water set to ultra you can barely see the silence zones in the water and can get screwed over if you run into them.

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Banning all addons is just silly, there are plenty of addons that has nothing to do with combat and Blizzard have always kept an eye on those that do. Incorporating more things in the base UI, meaning I have to download less, is a great boon though.

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When they have fixed the issues that addons have been designed to solve we can start talking about banning combat addons.

But in the end is it gonna solve anything? People will just use other ways to work around it.
Tracking boss mechanics could in many cases just be done with another program on another screen.
And I think it would make having a raid leader who is not playing an even bigger advantage because they would be able to keep track of mechanics that players cant do during the encounter without addons.

But if any addons are gonna be banned it should only be combat addons and only after they have solved the issues that calls for these addons.

But in the end its better if they just focus on improving ui, telegraphing etc people will naturally stop using addons that is not needed.

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I can understand that a lot of players love Mods. But there are a lot of downside allowing 3rd party addons: more bugs, memory usage, certain lags, less safety, etc.

Even the addon managers themselves can be a mess, just look at the current problem between curse and wowup, and the history from curse to twith to overwolf etc.

I am all for more customizations, but they should be integrated into Blizzard in-game functions, and directly upgraded with the game itself, instead of 3rd party apps that become more and more intrusive with ads.

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So you are using so many addons you can not update them manually anymore? :thinking: I have really no problem with managing my addons.

And you are trying to ban addons but then immediately ask blizz to implement them. What are we actually trying to fix with the complete removal of addons?

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Sure, it requires more resources, that’s not a problem for me though.
I have more than enough memory and experience very rarely any bugs with my addons.

And sure the addon managers are messy, but i still remember having to manually download and install the addons.
And these are just things the user have to decide if its worth it for them, you are not forced to get the addons if you don’t want to.

Then blizzard have to give us an option BEFORE banning addons.
Because removing something for us and saying that they will work on a replacement in the future is not gonna do it.
I doubt this big new UI update is gonna stop me from using ElvUI.
I need to have elvui because the default ui doesnt let me rearrange the action bars to my liking.
I have an mmo-mouse with 16 thumb-buttons and I want it arranged in the same layout as the buttons.
ElvUI replaced like 5 of my old addons. So blizzards new UI needs to be on ElvUI level for me to change otherwise i would have to start using these other smaller addons to handle stuff that isnt covered.

There is nothing that is gonna make me agree with banning addons until blizzard actually have fixed all the issues these addons solve.
The first thing I do after a fresh install of WoW is to get my addons because the default feels terrible to use.
Even on PTR I need these addons to get a proper feel for the changes of my main.

Show us replacements first then we can discuss it.

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I’m am completely ok with addons to be removed if the base UI has all the information I need on display (it doesn’t, and I don’t mean things that solves mechanics for you. Just informations like enemy cooldowns and team cooldowns, and proper castbars for everyone).

We’ll see how the new UI of Dragonlands will feel like, I hope it’s good

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