This game badly needs mods and macros.

At least then someone is going through the trouble of getting it right - it's up to THEM the PLAYER to get it right - not an automated built in mod.

How is that not different?




Mouse over heal for instance, macros etc... Anything that removes player interaction from the game by automating the process "plays the game for you".

You didn't need to select(click) that player from the raid to then press the heal button did you? the mod did it for you. May not seem so, but that's about 0.3 seconds just there that you saved over someone not using it.


Addons automate things that shouldn't be automated - be it for ease of use, convenience or whatever.
If it's not added by the game developer, it shouldnt be there.

Alot of players will not read forums, will not keep up with the latest mods, some won't even know they exist.
Those that do get them, set them up for their "ease-of-use" will have an advantage over those who dont. That's the most basic definition of cheating. (look it up on the dictionary)

You want to resize and move around the UI? Go ahead, I want it too... but don't try to tell people who want a levelled playing field for everyone that they are "bads" /facepalm

Yes because people have the ridiculous idea that things like DBM do something more than allow you to customise how the information the game is already sending to your client is presented to you.

I don't think it has ever required addons to play, it certainly doesn't currently.

Yes, because it's so very tricky to press start and stop on a stopwatch. All DBM does is exactly what a player would do, see the game has triggered an event and start a stopwatch based on that.

Have you got any idea how mouseover macros work? They don't heal for you or select an ability to use. All they do is mean that the ability you select and cast ends up being used on the character you have your mouse cursor over rather than the mob you have targeted. They don't play the game for you at all.

I liken DBM to a GPS Navigation system - except that it also tells you when and where to steer, brake, accelerate, clutch, shift, change lanes, stop, signal, honk, park, breath, fart, belch and sneeze. I happen to enjoy driving so no thanks. If I'm forced to share the road with motorists who rely on a tech toy to pay attention for them, I'll just take a bus instead. I did just that as I no longer raid in WoW.

Yep you are correct, The Hero engine uses flash for all GUI overlays. The engine was never designed to use modular scripting languages such as LUA. So implamentation of addon's would require scrapping a good chunk of the engine source. ( For all we know there engine license may not even allow full source code access in the first place)


Like most other issues in this game development there all traced back to the engine choice. They choose a untested engine based around vary rigged command sets. It also cannot handle large player loads (this is why the game is phased/instanced based on population) and that aspect will also never be changed.

Real question is why on earth did they choose to go with something untested and unsuitable for the large scale game. As opposed to something like gamebyro that has years of development and testing behind it for a large range of games.

Chained with correct mod mouse over macro clicking on raid frames can cast a heal based on a priority list.
If you mouse over the character your doing it wrong and to slow.

A dev response to this right here would be fantastic. If this is the case, and addons won't be possible with the current engine, it would be better to know now rather than later.

I don't misunderstand anything. You think that DBM and decursive and the like do a lot more than they really do, and you refuse to be educated on the matter.