Increasing number of players using 3rd party tools

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

While I generally agree that ACT is a good thing and brings a lot of diagnostic value to the game, certain extensions for it are definitely a crutch.

Cactbot reads mechanic tells for you, sometimes before they're even telegraphed in game. I know a bunch of players that are completely reliant on cactbot, to the point where they will literally refuse to raid on patch days because they're unable to do the fights without cactbots assistance.

Triggenometry can be used for arguably even more nefarious purposes, as it can send synthetic input directly to the game based on information it parses from the battle log. Probably the most widespread example of this would be the UWU gaol plugin, which automatically puts signs on players heads so that they don't have to solve the gaol mechanic themselves. Virtually every single UWU group uses this at this point.

That's... A bit much...

I dislike the automated callouts as is, but since people can do them too (I used to call out every mechanic for the entire static during coil), I I live with that. But this is just too much.

I'm surprised all of the "doing it for the difficulty" people aren't up in arms about that.

We just set gaol priority when my group was doing WR. Didn't get past titan anyway, but it was less the gaols and more people just being unable to do mechanics in general.