If they're anything like Mythic Neltharion I'm done raiding lmao. plz
These blizzard devs are absolutely clueless and have no idea what they are doing. Worst change ever.
Making some stuff a private aura so players can react based on the ingame visual can be fine. Not everything needs a WeakAura.But I can see a problem with stuff like debuffs that have to be reacted appropiatly like the heal absorb.Can non-blizzard raidframes even display those on unit frames if they are private or is it a simple "get f'd healers"?
To start with, anything like Neltharion's Volcanic Heart would be troublesome when the mechanic has little room for error, has extremely tight positioning requirements, and for many classes there is no way to fix bad positioning of two people heading to the same corner. Such a tight mechanic shouldn't have been designed in the first place when it would ALWAYS be solved not by good play, but some sort of automation. In fact if it wasn't a private aura the only real difference would be not having to count as the WA would throw the number at your face instead.Arguably any mechanic that feels like it has to be solved by a program running calculations for you is something that shouldn't have been put into the fight in the first place. All of the above private auras will also fall into these two camps, either they will be ignored because they are normal mechanics or will have a more brute forced method of a custom list where you count your position to know what you are expected to do. With the latter neither is a good solution because again it should probably not be a mechanic then.That being said it is pretty clear many people angry at this have absolutely no idea what private auras prevent or don't prevent.
Private Auras aren't inherently bad, but Blizzard NEED to design mechanics that give you enough time / information to actually execute them without WAs.Echo of Neltharion is the best fight in the tier, probably the expansion imo - but it's ruined by having to use a WA for the circles because there's no real way of doing them without.
I don't understand. If Private aura can't be assigned by WA it means we will not be able to use WA to play the mechanic and instead we will have to just verbaly comunicate. So it will NOT be Neltharion 2.0.Or am I missing something?
The Echo of Neltharion special buff is easy to see. The health bar of the add turns yellow, if you have the buff and can attack it.There is no addon needed or required for this mechanic.
The entire point of Private Auras is for mechanics to not be mindlessly solved for you with a weak aura because it trivializes the mechanic. You now have a situation where you are forced to rely AND have an addon to play the game. Sure the private auras may not be implemented well but it's a step in the right direction to make us less reliant on an addon to play the game properly. I hope they iterate on this and make it better. Private Aura mechanics that are more forgiving but intuitive to workaround/solve without use of addons.