Quote Originally Posted by Ralph2449 View Post
I had to use bigwigs(Alternative to DBM) simply because it was a lot easier to disable the ridiculous extra warnings that actually make things worse than actually help imo, the main use I have from these addons is that timer window which shows upcoming timers.
Oh man when I found bigwigs I never looked back. It was a much nicer add-on that I found to be less obstructive.

Quote Originally Posted by Ralph2449 View Post
But you are right, the mechanics are shown very clearly without any addons and you dont need any additional assistance for them but these addons have been forced onto everyone due to the community along many others.
A lot of raid teams demand that you use boss mods to further reduce the likelihood of error. Yes WoW has in-game warnings about mechanics that will happen or a debuff on your character, but if you also have an add-on informing you of a mechanic before it even happens or get a massive skull on your head with a huge raid warning blasting the centre of your screen when you're debuffed then it becomes really hard to miss something when it happens, which means less mishaps.

The thing is if something will make a fight easier, players are going to use it regardless of how abundantly clear the game is about mechanics. The reason why we can no longer change field marks mid-combat in FFXIV is because some raiders found a way to get an add-on to automatically mark safe spots on the ground which of course trivialised some mechanics. Unsurprisingly SE were not happy about this. They couldn't do anything about the add-on itself so they removed the in-game utility that the add-on used to do its job. A classic case of "this is why we can't have nice things".