Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
And they only become needed when the devs start designing the encounters around said add-ons to keep any sort of challenge.
And they only need to start designing encounters around add-ons when they allow combat add-ons in the first place. This board really needs to be renamed "Chicken Little XIV." I, along with other people, already stated that SE will likely only allow add-ons that deal with the UI. Not add-ons that show when a boss is going to start an ability. Why? Because PS3 users cannot have access to those add-ons. Combat in XI/XIV is slow for a reason. It's available on the console. You cannot be as fast on a controller with a ton of spells/abilities as you are on a keyboard and a mouse. It is not possible. I can cast any of my spells in WoW with a keypress. I cannot do that on a controller, because I would be limited to a certain number of buttons. Thus combat will be slower (as it is in XI/XIV) because it has to account for controller users.