Third party software

[dan_alexandre]

Except this statement simply isn't true because a truly vanilla experience means not using ACT whatsoever. This, in turn, means you can't maximize your DPS for something like Dragonsong where the enrage is so tight a single DPS death can be the difference between getting passed Estinien or wiping to Revenge of the Horde. And this is from high level players pumping out as much damage as possible. Which they only know how to do because of the aforementioned third party program and a website to parse that data.

They said they have proven it can be cleared internally, I don't know how they approached it however.. it is possible that they went phase by phase instead of doing the whole fight in a row. That said.. isn't it because people got so much better due to such things that they saw the need to make something this hard? I'm sure they took into account how people cleared previous ultimates while designing this one. They also take into account people on consoles.

It just may be insanely hard but since they claimed for it to be clearable and proved it to themselves.. I don't think you can claim it is impossible nor that mods are absolutely necessary.

Edit:
Let's imagine they messed up and that mods are indeed necessary to clear Dragonsong ultimate, in that case it would be a design flaw and the fight would need to be nerfed in one way or another. In such situation what you should be asking for would be the nerf, possibly UI enhancements as well. Never mods.

I feel you on how hard it can be to track some things in the current state, I am hopeful that whatever they do to the UI will help on that regard.