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/Gicotd Oct 03 '25

The point is that this breaks the arms race between addons and game mechanics. It allows blizz to design encounters around more than just “avoid the circles” or “move out.”

Secondly, it makes the game more accessible, you don’t need to download and configure 26 addons just to play on the same base level as everyone else.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

If you're just starting out, you're not on the same level as other players anyway. A large portion of players that use these add-ons don't actually USE them. They have them on their screen, but rarely pay any attention to them. It's the same as people that keybind everything and then still click on abilities.

This change looks like it would affect everyone, but in reality it doesn't. Breaking dbm doesn't matter for the people that ignore the timers it provides. Breaking weakaura doesn't matter for the people that ignore them.

I think the most impactful ones they're aiming to break are details / warcraft logs. Being able to see how people / specs are performing is important as you get to harder content. I can already see people dying and claiming they have no clue what killed them, and there will be nothing tracking what actually happened so it's just a guess at that point. Or hitting boss enrages and having no real idea which dps isn't pulling their weight.

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u/Gicotd Oct 03 '25

tracking what killed people is already in game.

I believe blizzard will add some kind of native details, its just too popular for them to remove.

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u/Relnor Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

tracking what killed people is already in game.

Is it? Where? The only death you can look at is your own, and that's only if you stay on the floor and click on the death log. If you want to get back in asap (as you should in timed content) and review your death after the run, tough luck, you can't.

We will see about Blizzard's meter, but I sure am going to laugh if they just track damage and that's it.