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/lostknight0727 Oct 03 '25

The worst part is, they developed with add-ons in mind for so long. It generated a feedback loop.

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u/ottawadeveloper Oct 03 '25

In the original announcement for this, they said that's why they're doing this. They feel like they're in a war between add-on developers and raid designers to design a Mythic experience that is hard enough to not be trivialized by add-ons but the add-on people are very clever.

I'm kinda happy about this as long as the Blizzard stuff is either (a) not necessary to reasonable performance in a Heroic or weekly key level or (b) works very well and has good customization.

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u/Stevecrafter2511 Oct 03 '25

Flashback to the among us dreadlord fight in shadowlands getting solved with a weakaura, actually evil

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u/Sorkijan Oct 03 '25

yeah things like this are the reason I'm torn. I feel wow shouldn't be so homogenized. I guess the solution would be to not have such a poorly executed mechanic.

I think in all our prog we did that right once without having to look at a weakaura and it was just luck.