Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
If you're relying on your tanks or any one person for a callout. What's really the difference over a TTS? If the whole argument is "do the mechanic yourself" Well, you aren't. You're dead if someone else isn't telling you what to do.
This game is a team-based game, and someone, somewhere is having to perform some kind of execution to make that callout. When you use TTS, there is no longer a single person in your group actively involved with the mechanic as it was intended.

I never had any problems learning to read nael quotes so it's just hard for me to empathize with people who struggled with that mechanic. I don't see reading some text as being any different from say, reading a castbar or looking at whether or not a boss is lifting their left or right arm. It's just another way of communicating a mechanic at the end of the day, and reading it is inherently part of the execution of that fight. The quotes even come out during completely inactive parts of the fight, giving you plenty of time to read them. Using a plugin to mentally parse it for you is using a robot to simplify the fight execution, hence it being a crutch. I will continue to standby stating that it's a crutch, and that it detracts from the execution of the fight. Not every mechanic will be fun to every person. I have griped about many, many mechanics over the years, but I would never entertain using a third party tool to circumvent them just because I don't personally don't find them fun.

Using third party tools for diagnostic purposes between pulls is fine, but I genuinely believe that it's gone too far when the tool assists you with fight execution, regardless of if you find a mechanic 'fun' or not.