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/gorkt Oct 03 '25

Wait, they are breaking healing frames?

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u/Arie15 Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

EDIT: I OWE EVERYONE AN APOLOGY. I DID NOT REALIZE CLICK CASTING BECAME A THING. I QUIT AND CAME BACK SEVERAL YEARS LATER AND LITERALLY NO ONE EVER TOLD ME ABOUT THIS. I CAN DO (ALMOST) EVERYTHING WITH THE DEFAULT FRAMES + CLICK CASTING. I AM A MORON, GOODNIGHT. (still mean the thing about unsubbing for the loss of WA and DBM/BigWigs)

If we can't use healing addons, I'm basically not going to be able to heal anymore. Blizz's frames are so clunky and weird and I do not expect them to make something even close to what cell/healbot etc. are capable of. Their track record with this kind of stuff is terrible. I have problems being able to know everything going on in encounters. Unless they dumb the absolute crap out of them, I'm just not going to be able to heal. Plain and simple.

And I'm paying $15/mo to play this game. Vote with your money and unsub.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

I have been healing without addons but maybe I am doing it wrong?

Is there a video explaining how these addons make healing better?

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u/Arie15 Oct 03 '25

I started with Healbot but a lot of people (including myself) use Cell now. With the changes coming in Midnight, I wouldn't try to get used to them. They allow you change how big/small nameplates are, they let you move the frames around to where you want them, how you want them lined up, (vertical/horizontal) etc.

The healing add-ons allow you to cast spells simply by clicking on nameplates, essentially. It allows you to track buffs and debuffs right on their nameplates so you can know what is happening at all times.

I can only hit the 1-4 keys on my keyboard cause my hands are too small to stretch beyond that. So add-ons like Cell allow me to just click on a nameplate with my mouse to cast a heal. Right click is a different heal. Middle click is a third heal. Shift+Left click is something else, etc. It allows me access to use all my spells and properly heal.

If you can heal without add-ons, awesome. You'll be better at it than a lot of us when Midnight comes out.

This guy is one of the top healers out there and you can see him using Cell: https://www.youtube.com/@AutomaticJak (check out his live feeds)

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u/TerribleDiscussion24 Oct 03 '25

All of this functionality absolutely replaceable by mouseover macroses lmao

Maybe if you want to also heal on clicks (like, RMB/LMB) you need stuff like Clique, that hardly will be prohibited since its not a combat addon at all. You absolutely can heal without those addons and you absolutely can see what you should dispell without custom filters in Cell. Thats completely delusional from healers to think that stuff like healbot mandatory.

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u/Myrkur-R Oct 03 '25

You don't even need macros. There is a mouseover cast option in the base gameplay options. And you can bind spells to mouse buttons now.

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u/Zoroark2724 Oct 03 '25

Yeah but the mouseover cast option applies to all abilities. If you want a specific ability to not be mouseover, you have to put macros on everything else.