Mods and cheat engine

[EaMett]

I don't think there are world first players out there that don't use parsers/have a friend parse them, but yeah, cactbot and trig need to be coded by people that cleared the content, and that doesn't happen before weeks of the content being released. So yeah, competitive players don't use them, because they can't, and because they are all able to process what happens/have good enough RLs to not care.

Once more : midcore PvE players are the real issue.

World racers could do what wow does and have people on the side code their cactbot/trig stuff live. The reality is that they don't need it because they're good enough to remember where in their rotation the mechanics hit. (and you have enough time to adjust in FF, wow plays differently)

Midcore raiders aren't an issue either. Why would they be? What does it matter what they use?

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

World racers could do what wow does and have people on the side code their cactbot/trig stuff live.

The development philosophy is different. In WoW, raids are tested on PBE weeks before they are released, and only minor adjusts are made, so live correcting DBM/BigWigs/Whatever is feasible. In FFXIV, where it takes 2-3 days to clear savages, with only one full day on last instance, the benefit is minimal, if there is one. That's what I meant.

Midcore raiders aren't an issue either. Why would they be? What does it matter what they use?

Midcore raiders that complain about these add-ons. Hardcore raiders don't care, casuals either don't care or use them, but pretty much everyone that does a scandal out of it is a midcore raider. So, to be more precise : whiny midcore raiders are the problem.

I'm on the "don't care, people do whatever they want as long as it doesn't impact me negatively" side, sorry for not being clear.

[EaMett]

The development philosophy is different. In WoW, raids are tested on PBE weeks before they are released, and only minor adjusts are made, so live correcting DBM/BigWigs/Whatever is feasible. In FFXIV, where it takes 2-3 days to clear savages, with only one full day on last instance, the benefit is minimal, if there is one. That's what I meant.



Midcore raiders that complain about these add-ons. Hardcore raiders don't care, casuals either don't care or use them, but pretty much everyone that does a scandal out of it is a midcore raider. So, to be more precise : whiny midcore raiders are the problem.

I'm on the "don't care, people do whatever they want as long as it doesn't impact me negatively" side, sorry for not being clear.

oh oh I get you now. I thought you meant that midcore statics using them were the problem. Mea culpa!!