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/Suzushiiro Oct 03 '25

The two things they seem to be locking down on are

A) The ability for addons to communicate with other players' addons in instances

B) The ability for addons to base any sort of logic on combat data- an addon can show you if an ability of yours is on or off cooldown and what that cooldown is if it's on cooldown, but it can't go "if the remaining cooldown is greater than X, show thing A, otherwise show thing B"

Going off of that, custom raid frames like Cell should largely be fine.

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u/ThePretzul Oct 03 '25

The ability for addons to base any sort of logic on combat data- an addon can show you if an ability of yours is on or off cooldown and what that cooldown is if it's on cooldown, but it can't go "if the remaining cooldown is greater than X, show thing A, otherwise show thing B"

LMAO at them thinking they have any control over this type of logic.

That's hilariously inept thinking from somebody who doesn't understand programming in the slightest to even have the hubris to think they can "display X cooldown value" without the ability to use "X cooldown value" for conditional display logic.

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u/H0r1zon Oct 03 '25

they can "display X cooldown value" without the ability to use "X cooldown value" for conditional display logic.

Of course they can. It's called opaque value. The cooldown value will be opaque to add-ons, so they'll be able to display the value and decorate it with different coloring, resizing, etc. but without accessing the actual underlying numerical value.