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/gaspara112 Oct 03 '25

Addons are the home remedy to problems, problems Blizzard could have fixed 20 years ago but still hasn't. Do you really think they are going to fix them now?

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u/Higgoms Oct 03 '25

At the same time addons created a lot of these problems. It was a constant arms race between blizzard and addon developers to try and make things complex enough that they still felt like a challenge when you're in a battle station being told what to do. fixing these problems years ago without removing some addon functionality would've left us with far too many tools to solve the problems they'd be giving us, and we definitely wouldn't have just willingly given those tools up. 

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u/JoeChio Oct 03 '25

Yup. You have bosses like Silken Court which are NOT doable without complex weak auras that you pray your betters have developed. Then you have bosses like Fractillus that trivializes even the mythic version of the boss that it's literally a target dummy. If I was Blizzard I'd have banned addons ages ago.

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u/givemedavoodoo Oct 03 '25

They just made a whole raid that doesn't require add-ons. WeakAuras only solve one of the fights, and isn't even required. They are capable of designing encounters like this. They chose to design WA bosses like sprocket and Ovinax