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I do agree with you somewhat but I'm more against those that use the healing mods to actually do all their work for them. They're very inefficient with their mana usage which really affects raids and whatnot :/

Question: Exactly how is Decursive getting broken?

I know I've read that it is, but I could have sworn all that it won't be able to do for you now is cast the spell(once it's rewritten). That would mean it'll still give you notification and allow you to use it to target the debuffed person(which means you just have to add another step of hitting the actual spell). I understood the change is more focused on dealing with healing mods that nearly automate your healing(picking and casting the appropriate spells, etc), not decursive itself.

My thoughts:

When I heard that Decursive was getting broken, I decided to run a few raids/instances without it. Did one MC(start to finish), one ZG(All the priests except Panther), a Strat Undead, and a Scholo during that time.

It was in no way hard, but it was incredibly tedious. And I was main decurser on several MC boss fights(Gehennas, Shazz being the more important of the two).

Edited, Dec 5th 2006 4:03am by Poldaran

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I have to agree as I have a 60 priest which I never used ANY healing mods at all and my guild has been into/through MC, BWL, AQ40, and the 20 man instance just fine. Does it make life easier to use Decursive sure, but my word now you are actually going to have to click the player/s picture then click the decurse button, that will just break the game. With Blizzard only having 25 man instances in TBC everyone should have time to learn how to decurse by theirself with out to many hickups.

I guess it is time to weed out the bad players.

Edited, Dec 5th 2006 6:55am by Diathon

Sorry for breaking your bubble. The notification will remain possible, but not clickable. Since the character it links to has to be dynamic, it's not protected, and therefor not targetable. The CTRA group lists are not dynamic, and therefor are targetable.



It will be, since the addon itself is not broken, but the features the addon requires are. Blizzard simply no longer provides the features these kind of addons need. As for someone else, I heard the guy that made Decursive is going to continue on it, even though he can only work in a notification type of way.

By the way, what would still be possible is a grid of 40 buttons, each linked to 1 person in the raid. If a person gets affected by a curse, that person's button becomes highlighted, and you just need to click on it to remove that person's curse. Buttons can be transparant the rest of the time. For Priests and Druids, 2 grids would be needed, 1 for each thing they can dispell. For Paladins, 1 will do just fine, since it's the same spell for all debuffs.

But the default CTRA could do almost the same. The way I had stuff set up I just had to hover my mouse over a CTRA frame and press the key for a spell and then cast that spell in my spellbar on that person without actually selecting that person. This mouseover casting is still possible.

You can set CTRA up so that on default most healthbars are nearly transparant and become way brighter when people start to take damage. In addition, you can give the background a specific color if that person is affected by a certain debuff. Visual aids will remain to tell you where focus is needed. You'll just have to perform the actions yourself.

Have no problems keeping up 38 people @ twins by myself, with all the other healers focussing on the other 2 people, without any addons that automatically direct my healing spells.

Edited, Dec 7th 2006 4:27pm by ThelsDeKwant

The only thing this will do is force people to be more responsible to the raid. I know I have spent entire Luci fights doing nothing but spamming my decurse button because no one else was picking up the slack.

LOL. You are right about that. I think damage meters are bad for raids and I still find myself smiling when I up near the top.

The only way that would work is if the raid leader told priest x that mage y was responsible for decursing him and priest x yelled yelled when he wasn't getting cured. It would be a nice change for priest x. I am sure that no matter how good the priest is, he has heard his fair share of complaints only the complaints against him usually are not justified.