Console Players don't need Addons

[Stralgarr]

Imagine using addons, WoW is that way, I very much enjoy the lack of annoying required addons here.

[Shurrikhan]

Imagine using addons, WoW is that way, I very much enjoy the lack of annoying required addons here.

There are only two semi-"required" addons:

• A parser, by which to figure out your rotation before going into content (and, if it doesn't lag you too much, during content that you'll run often under similar contexts, so you can figure stuff out via comparison),
• DBM/BWs, so that subtler visual-only cues can be noticed via further auditory cues even if you, say, have to look away at party HP bars as said cue appears (the actual exact timer scripts haven't actually worked for some time now; WoW bosses are more randomized and the timing data isn't given ahead of time to the game client, unlike in XIV).

Personally, I rarely ran DBM unless a fight had notoriously subtle or easily obscured cues, for which I might toggle it on; it otherwise felt excessive to the point of being annoying. When playing on my potato of a laptop, similarly, I'd just ask a friend for the numbers after a given M+ run as not to lose almost a twelfth of my frame rate to said parser. There, my only addon was bartender, such that I could put my hotbars where I wanted them.

Neither was required even when pushing above the reward cap for M+ or in doing Heroic Raids.



That's not to say that there isn't a ton of good you can do with addons. On my desktop, I ran several, and had put in significant work into making my UI take up minimal space while still providing all the information I could want.

But it's not as if I couldn't swap back to the default UI as necessary (and given that I was too lazy to consistently copy my addons over to my laptop, that was frequently the case). They weren't required, even for rather high-end content; they just made the game look and feel far better.