Quote Originally Posted by LynxDubh View Post
I absolutely would not give WoW as an example in this argument. If anything WoW is worse when it comes to third party tool usage. I'm not familiar with the fashion side of WoW modding, but raiding uses multiple programs to assist in their raiding scenes. Weak auras and tools akin to Cactbot are widely used and modern fights are designed around these player tools. Not to mention custom UI tools, rotation assist tools, and their own suite of parsing tools.
According to several friends, it's non-existent to very small over there in terms of cosmetic mods. Add-ons are common every day use for raiding/gameplay though as you said. 14 is pretty unique in how deep the modding customization can get in terms of MMO imo.