Why do most top raiding guild’s require their members to download certain addons?
April 30, 2009 – 5:48 amPosted by: marcia
Why do most top raiding guild’s require their members to download certain addons? If I can play to their level without them, why should I add something I’m not going to use. Is it my fault I can multi-task without the help of my computer telling me what to do next. Sure it makes the game easier, but where’s the challenge in that?”
One Response to “Why do most top raiding guild’s require their members to download certain addons?”
Many of the required addons are not only tools for you, but tools for the raid as whole. For example, requiring a raid mod such as ora2 or CTRaid or whatever other compatible equivalent you may have is not necessarily a tool for you, but also a tool for raid leaders and officers. It allows you/them to see certain information, and do things they normally couldn’t like trigger raid-wide polls. If not everyone in the raid can respond to that poll quickly and easily, it’s quite frustrating! That’s just one example. There are also guilds that like using certain things for proximity on fights, and all sorts of things. You might not need it, but you’d be surprised how many of these mods are actually used to communicate between each other behind the scenes.
There are also mods like Omen which serve that purpose, or they did prior to threat values becoming visible in WoW itself. Some people may not need it anymore, but back in the day it was nearly essential, even if you were very good at managing your own threat. It meant that others couldn’t see where you were on threat. That was (and sometimes is) a very important detail for the entire raid.
There are some things that don’t need to be required (stuff like Grid isn’t for everyone, but I’ve seen it required by some), but oftentimes the ‘required’ addons are things that make organization easier, or makes things easier for your fellow raids, not necessarily just you.
By kyrios on Apr 30, 2009