idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
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And yes, they nerfed him about 2 months after release. His cast was made slightly longer and there was a visual added that alerted you further. But if you had DBM it was avoidable even before that. Heroics where part of endgame progression then, so I see no problem with it requiring addons.
Edit to add: Okay seems like I was overestimating CC at that given time.
Regarding Fear, wasn't the Glyph of Fear changed somewhere around the start of Cata to have it make feared enemies tremble in place instead of running away? Still not a great CC, but slightly less prone of backfiring. Smiley: lol
Edit to add: Okay seems like I was overestimating CC at that given time.
Regarding Fear, wasn't the Glyph of Fear changed somewhere around the start of Cata to have it make feared enemies tremble in place instead of running away? Still not a great CC, but slightly less prone of backfiring. Smiley: lol
Sort of rings a bell. I didn't have a lock, so I didn't track their CC closely.
Also, I'm firmly against any design situation in which an addon becomes required. Addons should make your life easier and adjust the game to your aesthetics. They should NEVER make the game noticeably easier.
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This.
Blizzard is trying to move away from Addons-Required, and for good reason.
How good is a game when you are required to download things written by third parties just to be able to participate? That means the game isn't very well designed. Imagine if Skyrim had a boss so powerful that he was impossible to kill unless you downloaded someone's mod that put an overpowered weapon/armor/spell in the game or something like that.
WoW needs to stand on its own with no third-party addons. And they're getting pretty close to that point now -- old addons are being written into the game by default (power auras, many raid warnings, dungeon/raid journals, maps inside of instances, rare mob icons appearing on minimap) and the fights are being tailored so you don't need DBM to tell you everything.
If the game were designed properly, you should be able to do everything in the game with nothing but the stock UI. Now of course this means no "one button mounts", no information about gear on other characters, and the stock UI which I've heard a lot of players say is "ugly as sin" (though I don't mind it), etc. Those are just QoL things that Blizzard might or might not include in the game.
Really wish Blizz would get onto a simple One-Button Random Mount, though. I mean that is so basic.... maybe someday they will.