Can we talk about add-ons?

[Nixxe]

Now I don't know if FF has a PTR (I assume they do) but I never actually see guides out before the fights are released.

What I am trying to get at is in FF you don't really get the names or callings of what moves are being done by enemies unless you either watch their cast bar or the mechanics show themselves. The problem I would have is with DBM you don't learn what mechanics do what because the add-on tells you straight up to run away, get close and what not where as in FF you need to remember what the visual ques are.

Though now I feel like I am trying to explain my mind set all wrong. . .

There is no public testing of any kind for FFXIV. No friends and family alpha. No closed beta. No open beta. No PTR.

You are grossly overestimating how much a boss mod will hold your hand. If you don't know the fight yourself without the boss mod, the boss mod isn't going to save you on anything even remotely difficult. You will fail. You will get benched. You will get replaced. At least if your guild is even half decent. The way you think of boss mods is very common, but it is also very wrong. Their primary usage is timers to help plan cooldowns, as WoW doesn't build in nearly as many telegraphs as FFXIV does on critical abilities, and to simply make a noise when you are affected by a mechanic, which you should know how to respond to based on where you are in the fight without even looking to see what the mechanic is.