You know how I used to identify healers in a battleground before HHTD came out? Easy. But by increasing your awareness of what’s going on around you, of parsing information and giving you only the important things you need to know, addons can help you play better.Īnd that gets to the crux of the first complaint about HHTD: that it makes targeting healers too easy. You don’t need these addons to play well – you honestly don’t. Boss yells about something or other? Get ready to move.Īddons which confer knowledge also confer power. DBM shouts out warnings that aren’t necessary if you’re paying attention to cues within the encounter. Recount would be extremely difficult to do in real time, mind you, but you could manually parse the logs afterwards if you really wanted to. None of them do anything that you couldn’t, theoretically, do yourself. Gladius helps Arena players answer tricky questions like: is their trinket still up? (Always assume yes, until you see them blow it.)
Call to arms addon mods#
Deadly Boss Mods looks for boss emotes, buffs, and debuffs to track events in dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds. Recount and Skada parse through your damage logs to give an accurate measurement of how your character performed. It’s also a litmus test for how you feel about addons in general, though you may not know it yet.Īddons take information that is already available to players and display it in a different, hopefully more useful, manner.
It has limits, but it’s also an incredibly powerful tool when enough people run it.
So here we have a UI addon – just like Gearscore, or DBM, or Recount – which changes how World of Warcraft plays for people. It doesn’t feel fair, and it certainly doesn’t make BGs very much fun. Stuns, interrupts, CC – all are directed your way, and in some part because of the spread of HHTD. Melee will cut through the crowd to get at you. If you’re sitting behind a group of your teammates, healing away, you may find ranged fire focusing on you. It is a hard time to be a dedicated battleground healer because of HHTD, with opponents focusing on you relentlessly. Healers Have To Die is also one of the most hated addons in the game right now, with people on the forums regularly calling for it to be banned or broken by Blizzard, at the same time people are encouraging its use in Tol Barad. In a courtyard scrum or pitched fight in a keep, HHTD makes finding the healers easy, and killing them easy, too. HHTD marks those folks who cast healing spells – not healers, that’s an important distinction – and marks them so you can target them easily. In a chaotic place like Tol Barad, Isle of Conquest, or Alterac Valley, this kind of information is a godsend – my screen gets very cluttered, I have trouble seeing who is doing what, and I rely upon nameplates to convey information. There’s also a mouseover function that will sound a chime when the nameplates aren’t visible, though I confess I don’t play with the sound up loud enough to hear it. This addon looks through your combat log to see who’s casting healing spells around you if it detects that a player has cast a healing spell, it puts a big red cross over their nameplate. I’ll come right out and say it: I like the addon Healers Have To Die.
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