This game badly needs mods and macros.

Now to aid my arguement I will use WoW addons so don't get pissed.


I don't want addons like the following...



- Omen
- Recount
- Gearscore
- DBM


All I really want is addons that allow me to customize the UI I mean the likes of Grid, Bartender, CC timer and things that allow me to customize the UI and make it look better for what I am doing. I mean I don't need a linear line of moves when I am healing I only need a little square pushed to the side all keybinded and a nice large ops frame front and center that has the health bars of who I am healing maximized and can at least flash and change color when I debuff is popped. I can perfectly see boss particle effects and aggro is not a problem. Damage mesurement does not seem like a problem in this game seeing how I have not seen any enrage mechanics in flashpoints and threat is simple to keep so ideally all people want is the ability to make a UI that fits their classes needs and the basic SWTOR UI is not cutting it.

but...but..but... I wanted my gnome to get taller and have cows raining from the sky with Uzi's! aww... I'm so sad right now!

Ok, on a more serious note; I wholeheartedly agree with you. Remember bejeweled for the flight path? Had fun there :P We desperately need something like auctioneer for swtor. and something to get that damn companion's bar out of my quickslots, and stance bars... ohh a lot!
So, in other words, we need mods

Only thing this game NEEDS ( in my opinion ) is a ui scaling option and some form of healing addon similar to clique from wow.

Personally would love to have bar add on's , so i can put my bars where I want on the screen.
movable frames , all i use in wow.
current style of key binding works well

I like recount so i can adjust my rotation so i am not a detriment to the raid , ie. in 10 man dragon soul was only pulling 25k dps as frost 5-7k behind the rest of the raid . switched to unholy and was able to bring it over 30k . with out recount to show dps i can't see how i would know to improve the rotation/spec .still did not make me top dps either , just helped me pull my own weight.

no need for a bag add on because inventory is perfect now , not max level so i can't say weather i would use dbm/omen tho i don't in wow , i can see how they are nice for players that have trouble not standing in fire , i would rather have some of my raid using these two if needed so i could clear the content

would like to be able to make some macro's.

while i use add ons in arena in wow to watch cd's , enemy proc's, trinket cool downs to help stay competitive , would not like to see anything like this allowed.

add ons like spell flash (flashes the abilities on your bar ) for sure not

I don't believe that add ons are killing wow , its 7 years old . people grow up , change interest .Guild transfer servers / glads transfer
I know i hand full of people switching to swtor (my self included ) due to the pop on the server being too low .

that's my two cents

Addons like

Omen
Recount
Healbot
Bartender
Power Auras

Are all pretty much quality of life addons that are needed in order to make a MMO more fun than tedious.

I'd be fine if those were all added in trough the game client, but honestly, it would be a hundred time more time effective for the devs to just release an API and let the players build those for themselves while the dev team focuses on bug hunting and new content

Dude, how does making an ADDON API somehow magically screw the game balance?

this is what most people dont understand, blizzard allowed the game mechanics to be altered, if they didnt, they wouldnt have been.

Boss mods, dps meters, healbot everything WAS ALLOWED.

The Addon API doesnt need to give access to that kind of stuff.

[QUOTE=DevonDs;1655653]Some of us never used healbot and stuff like that while healing through heroic progress raiding in WoW, I only used X-perl unit frames to customize raid ui and target bars etc and what buffs/debuffs I wanted to show and removed the crap I didn`t need.

Being able to customize your UI the way you want it makes alot of the game more fun for the majority of players.

What's the difference between Grid, Bartender, Power Auras(CC Timers) and Omen, Recount, GearScore, DBM?

Grid -> move the raid frames into positions you want, size you want, display buffs/debuffs you want
Bartender -> move the ability pages to anywhere you want, create any number of them that you want
Power Auras -> Highlight the buffs/debuffs that you think are important

Compared to:
Omen -> display the threat of you current target in the way you want
Recount -> display the combat log in the way you want, filter for information you think is important, easier to read than 10k lines of text
GearScore -> display the inspect panel in the way you want, highlighting the stats that are important
DBM -> display the raidwarnings in a way that you want

Seems like the same kind of addon to me.

But in a technical sense, how would you distinguish between Power Auras and Recount? Both look at the combat log and I assume use basically the same API calls, so how would you disable one and not the other? Or does your hatred for Recount allow you to let go of the usefulness of Power Auras.

The addon that I want most is BuffHead from WAR, it displays buffs/debuffs that you select on top of the target you have selected and yourself.

[QUOTE=Jopster;2043638]The majority wants Addons, as demonstrated trough Polls over and over again.

Inventory is quite far from perfect.

I have to log out for one character to a second or third one to know whether I have an armor mod crafted from last night, or maintain a spreadsheet outside of the game to keep inventory. There are AddOns in other games that keep that data in a centralised repository so I can look at it on any character. I'd also like to be able to sort crystals (my main is Artifice) so I can tell whether I'm low on a gathering mat or if I need purchased crafting mats. Any time I have to alt-tab out of the game to use a third party tool (such as Excel) that could be instead replaced with an in-game tool - the better.