Quote Originally Posted by Renen View Post
Fusional, your post where you compare DBM to food and potions seems like a bad comparison.
Food - put into game by devs to help you with fights (fights that are made take into account that you use food)
DBM - Made by players (developers do not make the boss fights around the fact that you use the addon)
DBM is not possible without the devs opening up the API, and actually, WOW devs DO tune the fights around people using DBM. That's why hard modes are generally impossible without the addons, but normal modes are doable without.