Turbine expands on LotRO's Lua scripting

It's a really good thing you're commenting on something you don't like about a game you've never played. I for one feel enlightened.

Unless of course you bothered to look at or even know anything about what you're talking about.

Radiance is (I believe) somewhat similar to a resistance mechanic, although far more important. It stops you from being overcome with dread, and being stunned for the fight, and even having your max health pool dropped by a significant amount.

There is no advantage for people who use mods for class CDs, imo. If you watch them carefully you're fine, and it only works for dps classes anyway (and prot pallies! :O) so that's a massive non-issue.

Also, if people aren't imbecilic cretins, are reasonably competent and have some eye for aesthetics they can make beautiful, minimalist but truly functional UIs. Addon-hate is overrated. Move along.

If you don't like mods, then don't use them. Simple.

This is a boon to those of us who find the current UI just plain butt-ugly. Just the ability to get rid of portrays from unit frames, have have easy to read buffs (rather than this tiny little group under the character bar) and create non-standard button bar groupings would be fantastic.

The only advantage something like this gives is that people can use the UI in the way they want rather than struggle with something that is just adequate.

For what it's worth, Dumac, I voted "up" your post (as I nealt always do when I see a grayed-out post). Stupid graying out feature! Grrrrrr.

People often just vote down posts they disagree with. So much for freedom of expression. :(

I love how so many people comment about this without having even tried the game.

The UI is pretty bad, especially when it comes to targets and buff/debuffs. In a raid, there is absolutely no way to filter debuffs/buffs on the target, and to make it worst, it doesn't even order them, they just appear as they were applied, and to make it EVEN worst, there is no timer on the icons or "clock", they just start flashing 10 seconds before they expire. So you have to keep track of your debuffs in a pool of 20+ debuff, and if 2 of the same classes are present, you have to know which one is yours (sometimes your debuff won't show up). Same thing for buffs, the only way to know the exact time remaining is to hover your mouse over it. Not only that, but the icons are TINY.

Overall, UI modding will make the game MUCH better. I main a champion, which isn't that timer heavy, but one of my main buff is a 20% attack speed bonus which, if I miss to renew as it expires, makes my following attacks 20% slower (attack speed affects animation). I also have to keep track of a bleed (12-18 seconds duration) and armor rend (30 seconds duration).

Wow hardly requires addons, I knew plenty of people who raided end game without them.

Add ons allow you to adjust the available screen space to what YOU feel is important.

Some people want as clear a screen as possible to enjoy the visual aspects of the game. Some people want detailed information about every party member and target in the area. Some people want everything to be contextual and shift and change based on what the current situation is. Some people want to be able to have an open window talking to everyone in tells at once, some want all text confined to a small box in the corner.

There is almost no way for a dev to create all these features. But with Add-Ons you can allow people to decide if something is truly important or not. And in WoWs example the default UI eventually adopted popular add ons. Omen -> Threat Level, Wardrobe -> in game set management, DBM -> In game boss warnings, Every Raid Frame ever -> Periodic improvements to in game raid UI (especially from "Non existant" that it started with)

Doh! This was meant to reply to Dumac's comment. (loss of context FTL) :(

lol

Yeah, the same mistake i made with my second comment.

Also, yay, my first greyed-out post! :3

I seriously doubt that essentially superseding two of the items that you have to buy in-game and rendering obsolete about a dozen travel skills from one class will be on the menu.