If someone makes a deadly boss mods type addon for ARR would you use it?

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Once you've beaten something, that initial woopty-do rush is over and it boils down to farming. Once that happens yeah people don't want to spend the hours they initially did relearning over and over with new and half assed setups. They want to get in there, get shit done as efficiently as possible, and get out.

That applies with or without mods, I thought this was obvious to anyone that's raided for any length of time.

Except that those mods and addons (and so on) are mandatory by many raiding guilds for even the first attempt up to and including the win. It's not a "farm status" thing. It's a " first attempt and every one after" situation.

I've been in several such guilds and have known people in many more such guilds. I have never known of a guild who only used them for farming the raids.

I quite clearly remember being told that, without exception, everyone *had* to have a specific list of add-ons installed for the first attempt of a raid, else they didn't go. In one guild you had to post a screenshot to prove you had the "required setup". Everyone was also required to read the strategy and have it open on their computer or on a hand-held if possible.

I've been around the MMO block a few too many times to believe it's "farming only".

People rely on add-ons as a crutch because they want the win to be as easy as possible, with as little personal effort as possible. They are not ever necessary.