I think you will just have to do as you are... play/test what you can and wait until a later version of the test allows addons or until 8.0 is released on the PTR. I think it's more important that the game get tested in it's Blizzard state, than with any addons at all.
This might be an opportunity to see if the default interface may have changed enough to facilitate your healing.
I only skimmed the thread, but along with the priority of testing stability and system related issues, the tuning of numbers isn't something that will happen until well into the beta stage, which is when addons will be enabled once again. It's at that point when the nuance of meters and logs will play into it.
At this point, Blizzard is more concerned with getting everything on the table first before working on the polish.
A better question is why people even care about testing a game they are going to play anyway...Most pointless thing ever.
But yes, having no addons would certainly not make me wan't to play any alpha or beta for WoW, cause fuck wow without addons.
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They made it a bit harder to enable addons in one of recent builds, but it's still possible. Just takes a bit more effort.
My first thing if this was the case was an alpha tester to open a report and fill out the form letting Blizzard know this information. It might even make Blizzard realize they need to add the features the add-on brings and make it not needed. Much like the color-blindness mode.
Why is this even a thread? Of course you can't use add-ons during Alpha testing. The whole point is to find the bugs, something that can't be done with add-ons fiddling with the code. Even in the live game, one of the first things they have you do when you report an issue is disable your add-ons to see if they caused the problem. This is common sense.
Why is this even a thread?
Addons have always been discouraged during Alpha and this time they decided to enforce it a little harder, maybe some of their API code changed and they want to see how it interacts with the rest of the massive pile of spaghetti that is WoW before letting the unwashed masses loose on it.
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Now I just hope they're at least funny when they do.
Mouse Over macros and you never need a plugin again. /thread.
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It's almost like the alpha is to test if the base game is playable.
What, why complain about this when the game is in an alpha state? xD Time for add-ons to be tested will come later down the line, lets make the game run stable on its own first shall we?
Agreed. I would fully expect Addons to be available at the time of beta's release. If you are dying to see damage meters/reports, Warcraft Logs is still able to log the Alpha by simply pointing it at your Alpha clients combat log.
What the alpha does NOT need at this time is addons. My quest log is full of quests that I can't complete because either the quest giver you hand it in to has gone to lunch...and Jamaica or somewhere and hasn't come back, mobs phase out as soon as you get close to an objective, or the map is just totally borked and marked wrong. Addons would do nothing but mess up the developers on finding out what the cause to the problems are. I'm not the only one with these problems either...many players are experiencing the same things. But report report report.
I have never eve rused addons to heal, except for decursive to save making a macro everything i use is just mouse over macros
how do you need addons to heal? are you seriously that bad?
You don't need mouseover macros or addons to heal, i've heal m+15 with my alts (druid, paladin, shaman alt) with blizzard frames.
BUT it's really important to use "Raid-Style Party Frames" and config them a bit.
I really don't know why Blizzard insists on using the old party frames for healers. That's quite a turn off for healers!
Everyone does heal different, but i don't know one person that likes to heal with the normal party frames
Edit: i've just send in the report that Blizzard should promote this option more clearly for healers as many don't seem to know it.
Last edited by Merador; 2018-03-21 at 07:53 AM.
you dont need addons to test a normal dungeon or similar things
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