Quote Originally Posted by pikalovr View Post
especiallly when it worked perfectly fine all these years prior
It did? I can't even count the number of times I've seen people get the black circle, and run away from everyone, and die, because there's no way to tell it's a stack marker unless someone tells you (and even then people still run off and die.) The fact that everyone put up with it doesn't make it good.

You have to remember that the super consistent markers we have now didn't always exist. Some things were consistent (dragon in, ram out was just as true 9 years ago as it is today) but for the most part markers were completely random and there was no way to tell what a mechanic was until you mysteriously died to it. Standardized markers were introduced to help alleviate some of that frustration. Yes, there's something to be said for the challenge of figuring out mechanics and learning a fight as you go, but that only works once. The second, third, eighty fifth time you fight a boss it's not a puzzle any more. It's just an annoying situation of trying to remember "am I supposed to stack or run away from this marker on this fight?"