Addon discussion

[raelgun]

Also the guy talking about the battle log... It might be worth mentioning that parsers do not read the battle log (or pretty much anything in the game). It speaks directly to Direct X (outside the game) and your PC's network traffic (also outside the game). So excluding access to the battle log is completely useless. That said, since the current software does not interact with the game, it is not possible to tell if you are using an add-on with the usage of the sanctioned API or not.

Are you refering to how ACT works or how other games like WoW have implemented their dps meters?

The one in Wow does read the battle log, that game is very very client side which is why its so responsive in its gameplay.

Also looking at http://mods.curse.com/ which holds a large amount of addons for other mmos, unless its WoW which has had over 10 years behind it, other mmos do not have thousands of addons.