The new concept screenshot is a real-time in-game render!

[Aradon]

Personally I rather dislike add-ons that give too much gameplay signals. I only really want things for damage feedback and probably something like DBM for awareness just because it smooths out gameplay and cuts down on extra Vent noise. Shortcut/macro add-ons are nice, but not really necessary. I think they're worth the potential damage to allow shortcut usage in add-ons, but I would heavily argue that they're definitely not enough to bar all add-ons period. I think the gist of everything I've said to this point can be summed up in this opinion:

The damage done by imbalance from add-ons is far outweighed by the extreme value of instant feedback from damage meters and other resources offered by add-ons. The number of players who misuse add-ons and fail to learn their class ought to be smaller than those who learn/understand their class better due to improved feedback and UIs.


I think there are some legitimate concerns about balancing, and I'm sure add-ons will be misused, but the overall impact of the game should be positive, and for those players who opt for heavy add-on usage as a preference, an overwhelming positive.

(For what it's worth, WoW currently tells you when to cast many spells that are buffed from procs naturally, without add-ons. It's all "fingers of frost! gogo ice lance!" and then you get to decide whether the program's right or not. I just thought that'd be of interest here.)

[Shipp]

(For what it's worth, WoW currently tells you when to cast many spells that are buffed from procs naturally, without add-ons. It's all "fingers of frost! gogo ice lance!" and then you get to decide whether the program's right or not. I just thought that'd be of interest here.)

Darn. I was waiting for Zen to post a picture of WoW's built in HUD showing a FoF proc so I could explain that it is not even an add-on. It would be nice for Ele Shamans to get this like most other classes, especially for when Lava Surge procs. But oh well, it's not annoying to either use DoT timers and watch for the reset, watch for the text to scroll across SCT, or watch the hotbar to see I can cast it again. /ohnoeslazyplayer