It really, really sounds like you're making a mountain out of a mole-hill. The scenario you used in the quote is literally the smallest problem imaginable, and I can't quite imagine why something like that would bother a person. You're acting like an addon has the potential to ruin the game. I don't understand the need for the drama.
Just don't use addons if you don't like them.
NO ONE SHOULD USE THINGS THAT I DON'T LIKE!
You sound like Garrosh.
decursive didn't tell you when to dispel someone, you just spammed it and it dispelled people, it was more powerful than any addon allowed today and it's not close
you're not educated enough about vanilla wow to really comment on things like this, you're just talking out of your ass
I have a friend whose only job it was to stay out of combat and rezz fallen adventurers. After the fix that put everyone in combat his job was to keep a 5 minute buff on everyone. I have no idea how he didn't die from boredom.
On topic: addons are good. Standard-UI is unbelievably bad in showing you buffs and debuffs. But I understand Blizzard, why pay for UI programming when your fanbase does it better anyway. Blizzard would have to provide a solution that almost everybody likes which is just impossible.
Last edited by Twdft; 2018-09-18 at 04:42 PM.
Pretty sure knowing more than we did when it was new and far more resources like wowhead and YouTube guides being way more prevalent will have a far larger impact on things than addons will.
Prot Warrior 2004-2008. Hunter 2008-2018.
Retired boomer.
One addon that seems to have a potential of COMPLETELY ruining Classic experience for BOTH players using and not using it is called pfQuest - and obviously any other addon that works the exact same way.
Right now this addon contains a COMPLETE database of ALL objects in Vanilla. Objects = anything that can be interacted with, including monsters, quest items, herbs etc. It shows the exact spawn locations of EVERYTHING, together with spawn timers, droprates, monster level ranges etc. It is vastly superior to questing support that modern version of wow provides. A single player with this addon can completely take over any farming area while competing with people without this addon - simply moving from spawn point to spawn point instantly tagging any spawned mob because he has exact data about locations and times of spawns. In the same way he can gather any quest items on the ground by simply moving from dot to dot - and with significant amount of such players it is guaranteed that no player without addon will EVER get a single of such quest items - he won't be able to find even a single of them, as they all will be picked up immediately after spawning. I could go on and on, but I think you get my point.
Such addons depend on everybody having such addon.
While you and your friends might install it, you are going to be trapped on small server between casuals who won't even know such addon exists and purists who won't use it just because. You won't be able to fill any group in reasonable time. You will have to use world channels regardless.
It amazes me that people don't know / don't remember there was a group finder addon in Vanilla.
It was called "Call to Arms".
Where do you think they got the name for the bonus loot from the group finder that is in game today? (other than the WoW music, obviously)
Addons were a part of vanilla, the current game, and likely will be in classic. We can sit around and talk about how addons have gotten better but so has knowledge. So has communication. So has the ability to get informed. Not to mention just YOU know things. So the game will never go back to how it was for a LOT of reasons. All you can do is this and it works for everyone. If you don't want to use certain addons then don't install them.
Sure, but as I said, if the addon is not allowed, people can use third party websites if they consider that method to be better than asking for a tank for 2 hours in some city while doing nothing. So no allowing such addons is absolutely useless.
So obviously the solution is to make friends that have the same preferences like yourself and group with those people, and let the other people do their thing...
I don't think you realize/remember how not locked down the API was during vanilla. The addons in vanilla, if you had them, were vastly superior to anything that is allowed in the current version of the game. Healbot and Decursive were insanely powerful addons just to name a few. The real concern should be if the API is going to be locked down to today's standards or not.
Last edited by Leishmania; 2018-07-13 at 03:45 AM.
Addons are bad. Any functionality should be included in the basic UI (wow's frankly blows, btw), and the rest should be outright banned, if you really want to provide an even playfield.