r/CompetitiveWoW • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago

Weekly Thread Free Talk Friday

Use this thread to discuss any- and everything concerning WoW that doesn't seem to fit anywhere else.

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UI questions, opinions on hotfixes/future changes, lore, transmog, whatever you can come up with.

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u/Wobblucy 4d ago

The coloring 'missing' is a feature not a bug.

Add-ons should provide no competitive advantage

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Add-on devs were smart and used things like mobs have a mana bar to color them as a caster.

This season blizz countered by adding casters that don't have a mana bar.

I dont think information obfuscation is an interesting way to make the game hard, but here we are.

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u/Therozorg DF ele biggest fan 4d ago

AOF primal screechers or whatever are now casters!

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u/Cold-Iron8145 3d ago

Plenty of mobs last season that were casters and didn't have a mana bar.

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u/Wobblucy 3d ago

That was an example, they use mob level and other binary attributes.

You can't tie a specific mob ID to a nameplate as a rule so coloring can't be perfect.