A variety of addons, from Recount to Skada to Details, all exist to present a simple overlay in realtime of how much damage, healing, or various other actions are being performed in a fight. Outside of the boss mods that define a lot of the game’s design challenges at this point in time, something that is nearly ubiquitous is a damage meter.
Coming from WoW, one thing that immediately strikes you about FFXIV is that addons aren’t really a thing, and in recent rewatch streams of the old Producer Live Letters, Naoki Yoshida indicated that the team started and then stopped work on a framework that would enable addons.įor most of my time in WoW, I’ve played with a variety of different addons to deliver all kinds of different data to me in an easily digestible manner.
