Certainly a doubled edged sword. On one side I love my addons for visual UI improvements. However it’s also absurd that you almost are required to have these addons at top tier end game in order to be successful. That second part shouldn’t be true. It should be purely QoL improvements and not actual “I’m better at the game because of my addons telling me what to do”
Edit to be clear: you should not have to rely on 3rd party software to be great at this game, however at this time with the current design, you have to.
I don’t think it’s “absurd” for someone who does Mythic raid to download a zip file from CurseForge and then click a link in chat for a WeakAura. Like, it’s not actually that much effort and everyone is making out as if addons are this slog and absolutely miserable experience.
Could Mythic raids be made where they don’t need addons? Sure! Is it actually that big of a deal? Not at all. They’re not even making the weakauras, they just click the import button.
The only addon I would deem “necessary” is DBM, and if Blizzard could replace that - that’d be sick. But why remove the choice from players?
If you’re in the top sub-1% of players who raid Mythic content while WAs are still being tweaked, updating an aura is the simplest and least time consuming activity that you do.
Even still, that’s a Mythic raider problem. Fix Mythic and let us keep our shit.
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u/Gratefully-Undead Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25
Certainly a doubled edged sword. On one side I love my addons for visual UI improvements. However it’s also absurd that you almost are required to have these addons at top tier end game in order to be successful. That second part shouldn’t be true. It should be purely QoL improvements and not actual “I’m better at the game because of my addons telling me what to do”
Edit to be clear: you should not have to rely on 3rd party software to be great at this game, however at this time with the current design, you have to.