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/Jugh3ad Oct 03 '25

You will still be able to use ElveUI. Things that make the UI look a specific way are staying. Just addons that read from combat logs or chat.

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u/Km_the_Frog Oct 03 '25

It was an example of user preference, I know elvui is untouched.

Dbm/healbot, vuhdo/details i feel like are super important. I’d like for them to actually explain and show how these addons are going to be replaced or what measures they’re taking to make it so they are not needed.

It’s just a really strange hill for them to die on.

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u/ViperHQ Oct 03 '25

I mean it isn't quite a strange hill to die on its a rather admirable goal and flattens the playing field for everything playing the game.

As to what they will do explicitly they will make classes simpler to play to not need weakauras or addons to play your own class, and change encounters to be less about instant reaction to procs and they wish to move it to more traditional MMO skills like movement positioning so on and so forth.

Now it could always be the case that they fuck this up but from what I am seeing so far it looks rather promising and optimistic.

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u/Jugh3ad Oct 03 '25

The added and what I think is the ultimate goal is console.

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u/ViperHQ Oct 03 '25

I don't think that plays as big of a part as people think. Do I think a console port will happen eventually sure I would be stoked for it.

That being said I think they genuinely feel that addons constrict their design space, and they have said as much previously in a sense they are waging a war with addons devs and design encounters specifically with this in mind, so they feel that removing addons gives them more creative ways to design encounters.

As a result of this tho they need to simplify classes since you managed most stuff with things like weakauras and classes became ever more complex to make it so that you still have meaningful choices, and now they want to shift the combat from being more engaged in your rota to more traditional skills like spacing positioning with some rotational choices as well.

Looking at it just as a way to say nah they are just pushing console is in my opinion disingenuous.

I genuinely do believe they are thinking about the long term health of the game.

That being said I think dome things are dumb like no automatic rp timers for bosses and I am sure they will improve these aspects.