Big changes to UI in Expansion

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• BayonetRecon Member UncommonPosts: 128

  October 2006

  My question is does this really mean the end of decursive and
  some of the awesome healer addons? Why would they do this knowing that so
  many people are using these addons. The adoption of these UIs should
  serve as a message to the developers that people don't like the current
  Blizzard UI and if they're going to spend time on it, to improve it and
  provide the functionality that people want.
  
  
  
  
  
  Here's how it should have been worded...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Hi there, this notification is meant
  to inform you of some significant changes regarding the way we're
  handling UI addons. Over the last few years, we've accumulated so much
  money that we need to come up with additional ways to spend money and
  increase our deductions so our taxable earnings aren't as high. In
  following this philosophy, the easiest course of action was to write
  more code to break your awesome UI mods and force you back to our
  crappy Blizzard UI. This will divert your attention from the lack of
  awesome new content which we can later package as an expansion in two
  years and sell at a hefty profit. We hope by then we'll have reverse
  engineered all of the awesome UI mods and release them as our own
  add-on offered at an affordable price. All hail Blizzard!

  
  
  
  
  
• mjkittredge Member Posts: 126

  October 2006

  Reminds me of Diablo 2, where there were programs created that would control your character for you and do runs to get special items. You wouldn't need to do anything, just minimize diablo, do some other stuff, come back to an inventory full of goodies. No work needed, just let the comp play the game for you. I know it wasn't that extensive in WOW, but still, it gives those who use the UI an unfair advantage and in some ways plays the game for the person. Now you'll have to play the game yourself. Boo-hoo. No more cheating.
• Jadia Member Posts: 62

  October 2006

  
  

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  Originally posted by BayonetRecon
  My question is does this really mean the end of decursive and
  some of the awesome healer addons? Why would they do this knowing that so
  many people are using these addons. The adoption of these UIs should
  serve as a message to the developers that people don't like the current
  Blizzard UI and if they're going to spend time on it, to improve it and
  provide the functionality that people want.
  
  
  
  
  
  Here's how it should have been worded...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Hi there, this notification is meant
  to inform you of some significant changes regarding the way we're
  handling UI addons. Over the last few years, we've accumulated so much
  money that we need to come up with additional ways to spend money and
  increase our deductions so our taxable earnings aren't as high. In
  following this philosophy, the easiest course of action was to write
  more code to break your awesome UI mods and force you back to our
  crappy Blizzard UI. This will divert your attention from the lack of
  awesome new content which we can later package as an expansion in two
  years and sell at a hefty profit. We hope by then we'll have reverse
  engineered all of the awesome UI mods and release them as our own
  add-on offered at an affordable price. All hail Blizzard!
  
  
  
  
  

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  Though I disagree with why you think they're implimenting this change, the way ya put it is hilarious. 
  
  I'm too lazy to click the links and check to see if it will in fact affect decursive.  I don't think it should, as it's stated that they're changing UI mods that don't require user interaction...and decursive does.  I've not had experience with addons that cast spells or use abilities without you having to prompt them to do so, but quite honestly...if there are such things, then good ridance
  
• Ruthgar Member Posts: 730

  October 2006

  I liked using decursive, and found it nice for some boss fights.
  
  One thing that I used all the time were mods that would pick the right level of the spell for a target:
  Fort Buff or Flash heal on a lower level target. Without that, I'm too lazy to look in my spell book and cast the correct level spell.
  
  I wouldn't be suprised if they kept limiting UIs/addons, until there won't be anything left but ones that change the bars and move things in the UI around.
  
  
  
• IcoGames Member Posts: 2,360

  October 2006

  Mods like Decursive are definately a thing of the past after BC, however, like another player said 'don't under estimate hobbyists'. I'm sure someone will create a 'Decursive-like' mod that will have similar functionality.

  I agree that decursing management can be nightmarish for healers in some instances, MC's a good expample. I'm hoping Blizzard will either give us, druid here, an option or the adjust those particular fights accordingly.

  Ico
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• Andorae Member Posts: 103

  October 2006

  not that i care, it was nice that they fixed this, this makes botting harder and such as well, decursive was nice, but it just wont be necessary anymore in 25 man instances as highest.
  
  
• Volkmar Member UncommonPosts: 2,501

  October 2006

  let's not forget that priests are getting a "mass dispel" spell in level 60-70 that will basically remove curses to every friendly player under it.... so maybe Blizzard is wanting to give the character classes certain tools to do the same thing without using invasive 3rd party add-ons

  "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"

  
  

  
  
• IcoGames Member Posts: 2,360

  October 2006

  Thanks Volkmar, I hadn't had the chance to review the new Priest talents yet. I'm hoping Druids get something applicable in the future.

  Ico
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• Kyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,078

  October 2006

  Decursive is definitely useful in some circumstances, I'll miss not having it.... but it won't be the end of the game.  Same as when they took out the healing mods that would self-cancel if a players health was above a certain threshold... they were nice too...but the game went on w/o them.

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