Quote Originally Posted by Fendred View Post
Please also consider the fact that by the time Wrath of the Lich King had come around, addons providing clear indications of boss abilities being activated were mandatory in virtually all raid groups. I'm not exaggerating at all when I say that. Addons that gave notifications of boss mechanics were mandatory for raiding. That kind of says something about what the general audience feels about having to constantly look at the boss's health bar for a cast bar to appear. Individual players can say what they will, claiming that they like to watch for cast bars, but its pretty obvious from how prolific addons of that type are in the genre that most people find it incredibly unpleasant.
LOL, learn to watch the health bar. People use the notification addons because they're lazy. Hell, back when I first started playing MMOs, there was no such thing as a cast bar. You had to actually watch the boss itself to know when certain things were going to happen. Lazy, lazy people.