NO Addons please. There is another solution!

Ok, so addons are bad because you said so, and I need to get back to playing wow? Ok np have a g'day champ. you just opened my eyes on how terribly wrong I was all those years, oh well.

i bet you $5 he's one of the guy's who holds the guild back from killing bosses, and is always called out about bad healing or bad dps, and that is why he's attacking you.

Well if it is the case, maybe he would benefit from addons too I like to think people are more intelligent than that.

My whole point is even addons that tell you how to play the game (feralbynight, for example) are useful to LEARN how to effectively play your class. After a while, you don't need them anymore, simply because such an addon cannot predict what a boss will come up with next and you might have to wait on particular buff or ability until a certain phase and whatnot.

It is a great tool that makes the learning curve of a particular class/role so much more manageable. I just don't want to go back to inspecting my combat log (if we even had one would be good i guess) and pin point what i could improve and how, I'm sorry, been there done that.

As for GS, again, people can already inspect your gear, so if you join an OP, get ready to be kicked.

id love to see the UI customisation that Rift offers built in. .... or at least the posibbility to arrange and flip my bars the way i want them.

addons do not ruin the game they simply make ir more enjoyable

whats wrong with having an addon like recount tell you your dps? all it will do is allow you to make improvements, and come on this games UI is not very good and addons would be an easy way to change that

How about addons such as health/heat/force/ammo bars near the middle of the screen?

Cooldown timers?

Procs added to floating combat text so that you can concentrate on the middle of the screen rather than looking at your quickslots?

And while I don't need DPS/healing/threat meters to play, they are useful to a raid leader to see who is pulling their weight and who isn't... If you have a problem with a player, you can at least have a chat with them based on evidence and see if you can improve their performance (or, if you like it that way, boot them and find a replacement).

How about damage logs/parsing mods that allow theorycrafters and min/maxers to figure out their best options for rotations etc? Just because it doesn't float some peoples boats doesn't mean there aren't people out there who really want to crunch some numbers.

Seriously, floating combat text started as a mod. Now it's included because we all like to see our big baddass crits popping up over a mob or a pvp victim. Quickbars used to be one bar until mods added more, and so on and so forth. They all make the game easier to play so the line that is being drawn by the OP seems to be somewhat arbitrary. Of course, as many other posters have said, the OP could just not use any mods produced if that is what floats his/her boat...

Hardly, but nice try.

if you dont want them dont use them, the rest of us that take the game remotely seriously meanwhile will keep demanding them until our subs run out

Saying you're in favor of addons does not mean you support any and all addons, including dumb ones from the past in another game.

Are you trolling? If so, you're doing a good job with the tone, sweeping (wrong) generalizations, and even a "go back to WoW." Well done, I suppose.