12-20-2005, 05:29 PM
Chesspiece_face,Dec 20 2005, 09:49 AM Wrote:So when exactly is decursive supposed to be "fixed"? i've heard a lot about how it's not going to work anymore soon. From what i could tell on the PTR it still worked as of this testing cycle.
More importantly, what exactly are they going to be fixing about it? the fact that it chooses the most approprate spell or the fact that it checks for debuffs that it can cure? hopefully they won't "fix" it by breaking the passive targeting system it uses. A lot of other addons will be destroyed as well as decursive if that is the way they take it. pretty much every Buff asssistance program runs on a passive targeting system.
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They seem to be unhappy with the whole level of automation it introduces, from choosing different ranks to keeping track of debuffs on everyone for curing.
I can't think of a technical way that they can stop Decursive without breaking a slew of other addons, and some kind of signed/approved addon system would be a nightmare to administer and kill the variety and usefulness of addons available. But I have a sneaking suspicion the increased cost of dispels in 1.9 is one method they're trying to discourage it: By making indescriminate dispelling more expensive they are rewarding people who manually and (hopefully) intelligently dispel. Also since rank 1 and rank 2 dispel will be the same mana cost, the ability to choose different ranks is no longer an advantage to using one or the other, eliminating another automated aspect of Decursive.