Addons won't be able to access player position in 7.1

**Spunt** · 2016-08-20, 08:06 PM

Far out zoom provides more information than all these lovely addons, hence why zooming out provided a strategic advantage far above what all these addons provide
/s

**bgodbgg** · 2016-08-20, 08:09 PM

I understand their reasoning, but it's BS that the first time everyone is hearing about it is in this interview. Addon authors have already spend massive amounts of time on their addons and now a large portion of their work for 7.1 (nighthold was available for testing on beta so most of the addons are already made for it) now has to get scrapped. That's hundreds of hours of work scrapped because blizzard decided it wasn't important enough to tell people. Really makes you wonder if they care about their community at all if the people helping their game don't even get notice.

**ComputerNerd** · 2016-08-20, 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by bgodbgg

I understand their reasoning, but it's BS that the first time everyone is hearing about it is in this interview. Addon authors have already spend massive amounts of time on their addons and now a large portion of their work for 7.1 (nighthold was available for testing on beta so most of the addons are already made for it) now has to get scrapped. That's hundreds of hours of work scrapped because blizzard decided it wasn't important enough to tell people. Really makes you wonder if they care about their community at all if the people helping their game don't even get notice.

We are hearing about it a patch in advance.
That is more warning than the camera change which had exactly none.
We don't know what discussion was ongoing with that, or when that decision was actually made.
I agree it should have come out via a blog rather than an interview.
Blizzard do have a tendency post-Ghostcrawler to suck at communication, and this is a prime example.

Someone doesn't like a specific change, and somehow that is equated with blizzard not caring at all about their community.

**Holofernes** · 2016-08-20, 08:14 PM

some stuff like mythic imperator or the voidstar stuff in archimonde is nearly impossible to do without those addons. it would be cool if they would stop these stringent positioning stuff or whipe, that is nearly impossible to do without this kind of addons, and top guilds have there own coders for exactly this.

**Acidbaron** · 2016-08-20, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by eathdemon

blizzard has to maintain a balance between casual and cor players. hiding information does not make a fair challenge. if they are going to make fights where you need to know the exact location of the 19 other people, than yes addons should be allowed acess to that.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but some people don't belong in mythic.

As for chaos dealing with that mechanic i would basically say that everyone at that point runs between an area large enough to cover all healing raid wide but far enough apart the further you are from each other the easier to avoid the beams.

You can do a lot of pre planning work like setting up groups, it's basically what you do when you move mmo's. In wildstar you had to come up with actual tactics and rely on practice and not addons, which was fun and also frustrating as it was at times rather punishing with no combat rezzes.

**Djuntas** · 2016-08-20, 08:25 PM