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[RemVye]

they provide too much information, yes its useful, but its far too much

Thats the thing... you can have as little or as much as you want.

I could get 100 addons that give me so much information I have no idea what to do next. Or I could get the 5-10 that I find the most helpful for things that maybe slip my mind (buffs running out for example) and increase the potential I have to be a good player.

I think some people are beginning to think that addons only tell you "Do this NOW!" "Do that now!"... Addons can be 'Collect all your mail with 1 click', 'Send mass mail in 1 click', 'Sort item list', different UI look and feel. They don't even have to provide information.

[Finuve]

Thats the thing... you can have as little or as much as you want.

I could get 100 addons that give me so much information I have no idea what to do next. Or I could get the 5-10 that I find the most helpful for things that maybe slip my mind (buffs running out for example) and increase the potential I have to be a good player.

I think some people are beginning to think that addons only tell you "Do this NOW!" "Do that now!"... Addons can be 'Collect all your mail with 1 click', 'Send mass mail in 1 click', 'Sort item list', different UI look and feel. They don't even have to provide information.

so instead of getting better you want addons to toss information at you that you should know

and I never said that there werent other addons that are just for convenience or design

[RemVye]

so instead of getting better you want addons to toss information at you that you should know

and I never said that there werent other addons that are just for convenience or design

That was just an example, I have no clue what type of addons you would need for FFXI as it's relatively slower pace and not too many skills that you need to do.

But for example... again WoW.... playing a Warlock if I was displayed the exact tenth of a second that a DoT would fall off and knew the exact cast time to reapply that helps keep DPS higher. Losing one second on every rotation can be huge in terms of overall damage. Not to mention you could "spell weave" by having addons that told you server lag, which let you stop casting 75-80% of the way through a cast and still have the spell go off because there is lag. That is useful information that I would have no way of knowing on my own.

Again we have no idea what the addons are going to be... right now I don't think they could tell me anything that I would know, other than "Your ability is off cooldown".