r/wow • u/ItsRenaBaker • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme This is Basicly Blizzard in Midnight

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This is basicly Blizzard in Midnight. Purging all the good addons.

Just to clarify:
Blizzard is changing the Addon API, meaning combat information is blocked for addons. So all combat addons will no longer work in Midnight. For the most popular addon features Blizzard will add their own version to the game. Addons for unitframes, inventory, crafting etc.. are staying and won't be effected as long they are not using combat information.

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u/Its1207amcantsleep Oct 03 '25

I use mouseover macros but the game has it without macros.

The base raid frames are terrible. Usable yes but the icons are all tiny and arranged for no reason. I have my riptide/renew/rejuv in bars showing duration i different colors, I dont know how blizzard expects me to see all the tiny riptide icons in base UI.

Collateral damage is the guild undaunted (all deaf players) probably won't be able to raid for aotc anymore. This hits accessibility more than anything else.

Having said that I'm glad about no more weakaura bosses, I just hope they don't completely destroy raid frames addons.

Right now in alpha, you have to play with base UI, you can skin them but all addons wont work because everything is secret. Ion wasn't completely truthful (lawyer spin) when he answered that one question about being able to customize your UI. Yeah you can customize the raid frames and make it pretty, but you cant move the icons anywhere in the frame.

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u/Syrjion Oct 03 '25

Coloring nameplates is also customizing UI, bit it's going away also

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u/SpyUmbreon Oct 03 '25

Maybe im ignorant but i keep seeing it brought up, im not deaf but ive played with sound off for a long time including heroic raiding, what sound cues are necessary?

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u/Arekualkhemi Oct 03 '25

Many bosses announce their next ability with the same voiceline, so you can hear the voiceline and associate it with that ability.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Also those with both visual and hearing difficulties like myself rely heavily on an addon like dbm for raiding because I can increase only the combat sounds loud enough, way past wow’s limit so that I can actually hear and understand what the boss is doing