Addons in heavensward?

[Emvidasch]

Can't wait for damage meters. I asked on the WoW Reddit how they felt about them and they were mostly positive. The harassment worries are very overblown. You can find that thread here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments..._ffxiv_player/

I've been patient long enough but I'm reaching my limit where bad players are preventing me from getting further in the game. I had to wipe 23 times to Odin in Urth's Fount, not because I was bad, but because other people were bad. I don't mind carrying people through faceroll content. Eventually the ride ends for those people and they'll notice. But they're actually leaking into "hardcore" content and just preventing clears because you can't carry them.

Just being able to tell them to: "Improve on your rotation and then come back." before kicking them will feel so good.

[Niwashi]

In LOTRO I use an add-on that adds collapsible, configurable hotbars (for instance, a vertical bar that lets me hover over my favorite mount to have a horizontal bar extend out showing other mounts, or hover over my Return Home skill to have a bar extend out showing all my instant travel skills, etc.) An equivalent would be just as useful here. I use another add-on that lets me keep track of the inventory held by all my other characters, as well as see what's in my Vault (think Retainer inventory for FFXIV equivalent) when I'm not there. That one may not have as wide-spread of an appeal here where fewer players have multiple characters, but it would still be useful for those of us who do. I've seen some that show hotbar skills/items only under the specific circumstances that make them useful (equivalent here would be, for example, a WHM who only has Esuna pop up on their hotbar when a teammate gets a debuf they should dispel). I wrote a plugin myself to let me allocate several currencies between my alts which the game itself treats as account-wide but I preferred to treat as belonging to specific characters. There doesn't seem to be any direct correlation to that here, except in the very broad sense that it allowed me to take a feature and present it differently than how the basic game presented it, making the game as a whole more customizable. There's all kinds of things you can do with them.

The only downside to add-ons in this game is the fact that it's cross-platform, and the add-ons would almost certainly be limited to PC-only. (The people trying to claim that PC beats any other platform you can play on would finally be right, and that's not a good thing for a cross-platform game.)

[Veritas-Ancora]

I personally would love an add-on that makes all of my UI disappear when I'm not engaged in battle. The game is breathtaking and beautiful and I feel like the UI is such terrible clutter to take it all in.

[Cassandaria]

Veritas, I think you can do that already. Just press scroll lock on your keyboard. removes all UI elements, name tags, ect, so that all you can see is the screen and the environment. Granted, this is used for screen shots more than anything else, but that may be what you are looking for.

[Tiva]

I hate the standard raid/party frames in this game. I hate the cast bar. I hate the buffs/debuffs display. I hate the player and target unit frames. I'd like to be able to customize them, display latency in the cast bar, change colors, show health in text, etc.

And I'd like an in game combat parser. If SE wants people to get better at the game so more people can experience the end game raid content, there needs to be more accountability for player's performance. I know SE has been looking down on those using parses, believing that it is used to shame casual players, but that's not how it should be used. There will always be jerks that misuse information. But just as this data can be used to feed elitism, it can also prevent it.

[AreeyaJaidee]

There has been absolutely no information released or demonstration of any possible future add on API to date. If they had an API for creating and modifying the UI, they would have used it to build and maintain the existing UI. But the UI appears to be incredibly rigid and hard to update, making it difficult for the development team to make changes to existing UI elements.

Any type of addon UI appears to be a pipe dream at the moment. And I don't expect we'll see one anytime soon.

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Yoshi P
“We’re working on mod support UI integration for those who are looking into [modding],” Yoshida said. “We’ve heard people and their desire for mod support and we acknowledge that. We’re working towards implementing it.”
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One of these things is not like the other.... Lmmfao

[XinZue]

Is there any news about the base programming language (like LUA, AS, ECMA e.g.) wich will be used for the mod api?