Blizzard: "Addons shouldn't make a difference in how good a player is"

[Lunaire]

Things are not what they used to be and you will never relive it with another re-re-relaunch of classic.

This is a genuinely insane post to make. I played through Classic, TBC & WotLK re-releases. All that experience did is vindicate every single opinion I have on World of Warcraft.

It turns out the people that have been shouting "Nostalgia!" for years to silence legitimate complaints and criticisms were just being incredibly lazy. It was exactly as good as I remember, even if I had to engage with it differently. You're not actually interested in hearing the merits of what people do & do not like, though. You just want to take these cheap, lazy snipes at people who dislike specific changes in design philosophy. How dare they!

[Osmeric]

Do you really think that there was a significant portion of the playerbase that was asking for one-button rotations? GSE wasn't a terribly popular add-on; Hekili was. I think Blizzard just thought to themselves that if they're gonna incorporate Hekili, they may as well throw GSE in with it. Whether that's the result of "player feedback," or just Blizzard wanting to one-up themselves is anybody's guess.

No, I don't. Which makes it extra weird they are doing this. Something pushed them to do it. It's a solution few people want to a problem they didn't need to have.

[Soon-TM]

No, I don't. Which makes it extra weird they are doing this. Something pushed them to do it. It's a solution few people want to a problem they didn't need to have.

I'm going to go on a limb and guess that they either have metrics showing that current gameplay can be really confusing, or someone above Ion told him to do something about it.

It was really odd to hear the devs team discussing (and tacitly acknowledging) the issue, especially given Ion's background.

[Fantazma]

coordinates is really a shame not to have it natively in the game.

Taking advantage of this... is there an addon that shows on the ground where the yardage limit is for a ranged skill??
My Hunter would love that...