[Aule]

In the context of raiding with ACT, required doesn't necessarily "you must have or you will fail", it means "to be fully optimized you must use". The same way people claim you don't need (currently) 4-5 bards and 4 enchanters to raid. You don't, but to optimize your raid you're going to aim for having it. To the people saying you don't need ACT to raid successfully. I challenge you to raid all of your normal content with no timers from ACT. Just once is fine, but clear all your normal content either using stopwatches or just guessing when the aoe's going to occur. Then you can come back and say it's not required. Timers are necessary because we have detrimental effects that can kill you within 2 seconds if not immediately cured. We have curses that result in you being one shotted next hit. We have fights that have the optimal time to cast cure curse as being 1 second before the curse lands. We have aoe's that will kill almost anybody who's within 15m of the mob when it fires, etc. I dunno about the rest of you, but MY raids include a steady patter of what aoes are due next, how soon, which one's next, you have 20 seconds to get in there and do some dps before getting out, get out now, move move move, we got 45 seconds let's get a good burn, etc.