This game badly needs mods and macros.

Macro's are a bad idea..... they lead to too many ways for players to exploit things that were never meant to be exploited.

Instead of saying you want macro's - try saying what you want to do that you DID with macros in other games and seeing if there is a NEW way to get that functionality.

exactly. macros dont adjust for ability procs, and with most classes having abilities tied to rng.....so how would macro's be useful?

..and if a player needs a mod to do anything pve wise, maybe you should pay attention...maybe even listen to the raid leaders?

Healers been asking for for this since I was in closed beta problem we had is some people think that all mods=healbot(the auto heal one that got ban). It would start huge flame wars calling pro modders cheats ect.

The UI changes in 1.2 was a huge step forward and if they keep adding stuff like that mods won't really be need but what ever gets me click to cast in the game fastest is what I want

I've never used mouse-over healing before or really used macros in any of the mmos I've played over the years so I really don't understand the need for them that much (I am having zero issues healing hard mode ops). Maybe I am just old fashioned and don't mind having to actually click on things.

Too each their own i guess.

people get to bent out of shape just because others out there have the knowledge and ability to create and use mods how they see fit. ITS A GAME you can play it how you want if you don't want to use mods so be it don't use them. Go start your own MOD free guild and be happy together. and let the real players do what they do best play there character to the MAX.

This game needs MODS & MACROS period. I like playing a game my way. I am an older player and just don't have the dex of a youthful player. Macros are a great equilizer!

Hate to break it to you, you will not have mods in this game before version 2.0 or later. That is according to the developers at the guild summit. The exact words of the developer were "that is something we would like to see sometime in the future."
Not "we are working on this and will implement it when we can", but "we would like to see (it) sometime in the future". Take that in context with the rest of their statements at the summit and this means that they are probably not even working on a user moddable API at this time.

So those of us who don't use macros aren't REAL players? Why we must be bots.

Glad you can understand Biowares point of view.
They are going to make thier game "THIER WAY".
Last time I checked, it doesn't take a child/elder to lose the ability to press buttons.
It sure would be nice to lose the ability of whining though..

Mods yes but only for a handful of things such as UI graphics or buff/debuff graphics. I would like to see buff/debuffs be able to look like elkbuffbars from WoW.

The only other mod I'd like to see is one for threat. It can be something like WoW where its built into the game to show a percentage or it could look like tidyplates from WoW where its a bar that changes color or moves left and right showing you a graphic display of your threat.

Macros will ruin the game and cause exploits and there are some classes that are already OP as it is.