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On Thursday, July 17, 2014 5:28:36 AM UTC-4, Peter T. wrote:
> Is it possible to complete an unknown raid instance with a classic GUI 
> and no third-part addons at all?

Yes. My guild used to do it all the time, as we consistently outran the DBM developers. Which meant that you might as well uninstall DBM and related boss mods.

Although it was still common to use a better raid frame GUI, particularly for healers, but even then, we'd deal without, especially after updates, when mods became buggy for a good week.

The trick is ventrilo, raid symbols, and watchmen. Your watchmen, usually veteran dps players, have the assignment to look for raid wide death situations and call them out over ventrillo.

There is always some type of tell or animation that precedes a raid wide death situation; these things don't just appear out of nowhere. That is, if the dragon is about to breath fire, you'll see him inhale. If a pool of acid appears on the ground, you'll see a giant green ball get lobbed towards the ground.

As for the raid symbols, put them on the watchmen. Thus, if you see a watchman's symbol move, it means follow him or scatter, as something's about to happen, and it typically precedes the voice warnings over ventrillo by a half second.

For healers, the trick to using the standard raid UI (and this is the same trick for using addon UIs too), is to put the raid UI right under your toon's feet, and turn on only buffs/debuffs that you personally have to deal with during the fight. That way you can see the fight, see if you're standing in fire, and aren't distracted by non-combat/non-curable buffs/debuffs.
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// T.Hsu