I'm not a big addon fan. In fact, I have a post coming on that tomorrow. However, occasionally an addon comes along that truly does fix an issue or existing problem with the interface or gameplay and it makes you wonder why the devs never made it that way themselves.
I felt that way about this addon I had in WoW where I could enter the viscinity of a world quest and be immediately prompted to join or start a group by pressing a simple button. Upon pressing that button I'd either be thrown right into a group doing the quest or it would put people with me.
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Brilliant. I dislike world quests enough already, and the ability to quickly form up a party to complete it together and split the workload was so nice. Without the addon you'd have to manually create a LFG session and review/approve who joins, etc., and by the time you got something going you could have made major headway into that quest already.
Sadly, Blizzard is doing away with this. From MMO Champion:
- The default UI no longer offers the option to find a group for non-elite quests. The option is still there for Elite quests.
- Addons can no longer automatically create groups, even with a user pressing the button. The title and description can only be manually filled out.
- Users will have to manually add a title and create a group for world quests. You can't even paste text into the fields.
- Addons can still search for groups.
I found WQ's to be a chore, and this functionality made those chores a little easier.
Perhaps Blizzard will be implementing their own version of this functionality in the near future and they want to remove it from the hands of addons. Maybe there's some better functionality coming.
If not, I see this as a user-experience setback.
This just makes me wish WoW would have implemented their world quests similar to shared world quests in GW2 or radiant (I think that’s what they’re called) quests in FFXIV. 🙁