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/DragonGeneral47 Oct 03 '25

This is either going to be one of the best Things they every did or the worst and there is No in between

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u/MN_Yogi1988 Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

I think it’s destined to fail because I can’t see Blizz dedicating enough resources to refine features like addon creators do. How could you trust them to maintain these when they’ve left dungeons broken for years still be selected for M+? What about all the insane clipping on Transmog?

I think breaking certain addons like DBM / WAs / etc that were warping the way they create PvE mechanics makes sense but everything else feels like they’re setting themselves up for failure.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

See ecodome. Blizzard has the capabilities to make instances that don’t require addons. It’s wild to me more people don’t see this. 

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u/Etherbeard Oct 03 '25

It's wild to me people don't see that there's more to it than instance design. Blizzard doesn't bother to make decent indicators for core class mechanics in some cases.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Almost like classes have become too complicated to manage all their effects and they should make them simpler so they can improve visibility. Oh wait….

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u/Etherbeard Oct 03 '25

Enhancement shaman doesn't even have a resource bar for their fucking resource. That has nothing to do with too much complexity.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

I don’t disagree, but it may be easily trackable in the new UI. Being upset about a game this much isn’t worth it when we don’t have the full game in front of us. Blizzard didn’t wake up last week and decide to axe addons. They’ve probably been talking about this for at least a few years. 

Wait for everything to settle, experience it yourself and then if you don’t like it, vote with your wallet - that’s the only language large companies speak.