Quote Originally Posted by Zumi View Post
DBM can not win you fights in WoW. For example lets say you and a group of 10 people are given 10 accounts with ilvl capped characters go in to any heroic wow raid with no prior knowledge of the raid but you have dbm there is virtually no chance you will kill a single boss given the fact that blizz takes into account people use these addons and makes them harder and adds a lot more mechanics.
I would expect the same in XIV, honestly. In T9 you really have to learn the patterns by muscle memory or however you want to call it. Even with someone in voice chat calling everything, someone without practice will die quick. But on the plus side, having official addon support would cut back on third party program use. I'm using this example because it was recently in the limelight... how many people would use radars if it didn't come conveniently bundled with the same program that makes the Twintania stopwatch possible? How many people would even know radars exist if there was an ingame Twintania (or Nael/Ramuh EX/etc) stopwatch?