Do I need to replace my battery right away?

So, I have a Macbook Pro 2011. It mostly stays in my apartment plugged in, since I have an iPad. It recently said that my battery has to be serviced, but my friend said I don't need to if I just leave it plugged all the time. However, I had to unplug it one time and it just shut down (it said it still had 96% though but it won't charge). Now there is an 'x' inside my battery icon. I tried an SMC restart but to no avail.
I'm a busy college student, so it's hard to find time to have this serviced for 2 weeks. However, I'd like to know if it's alright for me to hold off replacing the battery since I leave it plugged anyway. If not, will it damage my Macbook if I don't do anything about it?
Thanks

MBPs can run without functional battery, but high-draw operations still vampire off the battery sometimes.
Not to mention the above observed "battery swells and leaks corosive chemicals on the logic board".
Go to Genius Bar.

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https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Unibody+Model+A1342+Battery+Replacement/166 7
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Hello Experts!
I have the previous generation MacBook Pro (bought in 2007 before the latest generation came out a year ago or so) and I need to replace the battery because my old one has been through about 600 charge cycles and it's definitely being shown the door. So my question is are the batteries for the current generation MBPs and my slightly older MBP the same, so I can just get a new 17-inch battery from the Apple Store and it will work? Or do I need to find a battery specifically for my version of the MBP? I figure Apple would probably be smart enough to have one battery for the entire range, but I remember SJ making a big deal about how long the battery life was on the new MBP so that's got me wondering if there was a change. I'm sure many of you know whether I can buy an off the shelf battery and swap it for my old one, so if that's the case then please help me out so I don't scrub a hundred odd Euros buying something that doesn't work.
Thanks in advance guys!

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I'm sure this question has been asked a thousand times before, as I've seen it has been. However, there's a multitude of answers across the board here so I'll pose the question again.
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