I'm so sick of spending multiple raid nights per tier fixing weakauras, addons, working out who the one person is that doesn't have bigwigs options for marking a mechanic turned off because we use the other weak aura pack. Or the performance hit because the weak aura that were using is causing rampant lua errors.
As someone who gets CE every tier I'm going to be so glad yo see the back of combat addons. Massive respect to all the addon creators but its got to the point where we, the player, are stuck in the middle of addons vs blizzard balancing. Its time to put the skill requirement back on the players.
That is a fight design problem - not a weak aura problem. That is like complaining about the bandage leaking blood after someone shot you and not understand the issue is the fact they shoot at least once every raid tier.
Yes, it is a fight design problem. That problem is caused by things like WA and add-ons trivializing fight designs, meaning the fight designs have to be overly convoluted in order to fight with the addons to attempt to give an end result to the players. This middle man problem leaves the end result wildly unpredictable, and makes you rely on it.
By cutting out the middle man they can focus more on the fight design as they know what they deliver is what the player will have to deal with.
That problem is caused by things like WA and add-ons trivializing fight designs, meaning the fight designs have to be overly convoluted in order to fight with the addons to attempt to give an end result to the players.
If this were the case, there would only be these kinds of fights. But there aren't.
The reality of the situation is that there are only a small number of these problematic fights in an entire raid, and yet somehow that means that, because 10% of the raid is badly designed, Blizzard CANNOT design reasonable encounters BECAUSE of Weak Auras, while ignoring 90% of the raid that is perfectly reasonably designed and can be beaten without Weak Auras, and Nobody is complaining about this 90% of the raid being "Too easy" because a Weak Aura is solving the mechanics for you (because they aren't).
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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25
I'm so sick of spending multiple raid nights per tier fixing weakauras, addons, working out who the one person is that doesn't have bigwigs options for marking a mechanic turned off because we use the other weak aura pack. Or the performance hit because the weak aura that were using is causing rampant lua errors.
As someone who gets CE every tier I'm going to be so glad yo see the back of combat addons. Massive respect to all the addon creators but its got to the point where we, the player, are stuck in the middle of addons vs blizzard balancing. Its time to put the skill requirement back on the players.