Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie View Post
That's a noble goal, but I quite frankly don't think it's feasible to provide that kind of instant feedback to someone without the use of numbers and other UI elements.
There will be some obvious need for some UI overlay because of the genre but we shouldn't need things like RaidUI or stuff like auto-healing scripting mods. Content needs to be crafted with the capabilities of the default UI in mind. This also in turn sets the requirement that a UI be standardized. If they want to do something that the current UI can't handle well then a UI update needs to be part of the content release.

The high customization abilities of the WoW UI really needs to be looked at as model of failure, not success to be emulated. Opening your UI to allow scripted mods just opens up way too much possibility of abuse and many MMOs that have come along after WoW have realized this and have elected to lock down their UI while maintaining a reasonable amount of customization of the UI within the game to satisfy most players.