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banananor posted...

that's super sad. when did weakaura cross the line to get to this point? was it sometime during BFA?

It has been a slow creep over a few expansions as the programmers got better.

I'm going to put the blame on G'huun, primarily. Blizzard was so intent on making a boss that would not fall week 1 that they created a fight that necessitated addons going beyond simple convenience.

Legion was where the Weak Aura creep probably started to really take off but it was G'huun that kind of cemented it as the only way to clear a fight.

There were some outliers like WoD archimonde but they were more exceptions than the rule at the time and usually isolated to a single mechanic(Wrought Chaos, which Blizzard pretty much admitted was a mistake to put in the game).