Third party tools are a game design failing in a multi-platform game

[Ralphe2449]

"You won't know you make mistakes and how to fix them without ACT"

If people read their own skills and passives then the "optimal" path is blatantly clear, when I do a mistake it is clear and obvious, I dont need a dps meter to tell me otherwise because the vast majority of mmorpgs have rotations that are very clear and obvious IF you take time to read your own skills and passives.

If you choose to not do that you have nobody else to blame but yourself

[SwingLifeAway]

If people read their own skills and passives then the "optimal" path is blatantly clear, when I do a mistake it is clear and obvious, I dont need a dps meter to tell me otherwise because the vast majority of mmorpgs have rotations that are very clear and obvious IF you take time to read your own skills and passives.

If you choose to not do that you have nobody else to blame but yourself

I question your ability to read your own skills if you cannot even read the entirety of what I said and take it into context.

Yes, you can learn basic rotation from the game, but an optimized rotation you cannot learn from the tools the game gives you. The game also doesn't give you any feedback on areas where you may have made mistakes while focusing on mechanics, which in turn means that you do not know what you need to work on to improve.

You can clear content without it, and you can perform well without it, but in groups that are pushing for week 1 clears, where even 100-200 dps can matter then it is very important to be optimizing your rotation. This is exactly why the addon wouldn't be mandatory, because the vast majority of statics in the small raiding community don't go for week 1 clears.

If you do hard content with no addons and only using what the game gives you, then good for you. I really don't care. Neither should you care about people playing the game the way they want to play it, provided they are not cheating. Parsing is not cheating.

Are you on alt account? Or do you usually try and project your uninformed opinions onto how other people should be able to enjoy their hobbies in other communities as well?

[Ralphe2449]

Yes, you can learn basic rotation from the game, but an optimized rotation you cannot learn from the tools the game gives you. The game also doesn't give you any feedback on areas where you may have made mistakes while focusing on mechanics, which in turn means that you do not know what you need to work on to improve.

Unless there's hidden interactions the optimized rotations is more often than not obvious.

Now if you are referring on tailoring said rotation to the encounter's mechanic that is also quite clear, when you waste a combo or a cd offensive or mobility due to a mechanic the mistake is blatant and now you know what you should do next time. Unless you want to argue people dont pay attention to their buffs/dots and just brainlessly spam 1,2,3 irrespective of how many times the mechanic screws theirrotation. Maximizing uptime is also quite obvious, when you fail to do that you know that next time you need to do something different to maximize it.

You dont need the game to tell you "Hey, maybe if you hadnt wasted your cd early and lost seconds of it you would have maximized its efficiency" (obviously depending on encounter duration)

[SwingLifeAway]

Unless there's hidden interactions the optimized rotations is more often than not obvious.

Ah, so you really actually have no idea what you're talking about. Thanks for letting me know.