07-07-2005, 12:10 AM
Treesh,Jul 6 2005, 03:01 PM Wrote:I play the game because I enjoy playing. I do not want the game to play itself, which is what mods like decursive do (even if I have to push a button to start it up). To me, decursive is one step away from the auto-healing mods which drive me insane. (BTW, if you aren't a main healer in the group, don't run the auto-heal mods. It will drive your main healer insane to never be allowed to do their job because of that damned thing doing it first.) I also dislike running mods in general because on patch days, I just want to log in and go. The fewer mods I have, the less issues I have on patch days and the less annoying patch days are. CTRA was a necessity when I installed it for the raid (that another priest did join later), but if not for that day, I still probably wouldn't have it installed. BTW, I really hope 1.6 comes out soon so I can drop CTRA asap. ;)
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Unfortunately, there is no default functionality in the game that provides some sane way of dealing with debuff effects on a 40-man raid. Some of the DoTs in MC can do thousands of damage per tick, AE curse -75% healing effects, mana drain + damage effects, etc.
There is simply no way with the default UI to handle this adequately for a 40 man raid.
I totally agree with your desire to play the game and enjoy it, unfortunately I don't really think it's enjoyable to do not much besides cast dispel over and over and over in a 10 minute boss fight, and even more unfortunate is the fact that it's how some encounters in this game work.
10-man or even 15-man is not a big deal, I don't think CTRA or really any mods are necessary for making it work well, although it is helpful. And I think the smart-healing mod makes for sloppy, unsavvy players.
I haven't kept entirely up to speed on the 1.6 changes, what new default functionality does it come with that will outdo CTRA?
Blizzard has stated that intelligent spell-casting mods (e.g. Decursive) are not disallowed, but are frowned upon and are very likely to stop working in a future patch. So I expect these mods to go away sometime in the next few patches. I just hope that Blizzard provides a builtin way to handle the difficulty and tedium of mass-dispelling.
To be honest, I will not turn anyone from the raid who isn't running Decursive. Although I will boot people who are not running CTRA. In reality only a few folks need to be running Decursive.
--Stitch