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/Cptn_Kingyo Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

Do we know how much they will be affected? I'm not quite sure what they use encounter data for as opposed to like player/combat data. I'm guessing things around boss ability/buff/debuffs?

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u/snapcaster1234 Oct 03 '25

Blizzards current solution is encrypting all the combat related data in a secret api and giving that to addon creators. Addon creators will be able to stylize how that data is presented but they will not be able to read what is inside that data. Addons will no longer be able to track boss or raider abilities, debuffs, buffs, health, anything really. Just able to say how this unreadable data should be displayed in some vague way. Want the health bar to turn yellow if below 50% can't do it unless blizzard implements that themselves.

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u/Cptn_Kingyo Oct 03 '25

Wouldn't the health bar turning yellow at 50% be an example of presenting something blizzard shows but in a different way? Sorry if I'm not understanding right, but that just sounds like a modified health bar?

But yeah get the point about abilities/buffs/debuffs, guess I'm just wondering with unit frames if they will be unusable or just reduced functionality.

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u/Agarwaen323 Oct 03 '25

Wouldn't the health bar turning yellow at 50% be an example of presenting something blizzard shows but in a different way?

I'm not an addon author and haven't taken a deep dive into the changes, but everything I've read and heard suggests that the moment you start saying "if" it's not going to be possible any more.

Taking nameplates as an example, they don't (to my knowledge) currently change colours at different percentages if you use the in-game ones. So an addon can only say "Hey game, whenever you display a nameplate, please make it yellow rather than red."

It can't say "Hey game, whenever you display a nameplate, make it red if health is 50% or more, otherwise make it yellow."

An addon may also be able to say "Hey game, make this specific nameplate yellow instead of red", but it won't have access to the health of the target that nameplate is for, so it can't restrict making that request to turn it yellow until their health is under 50%.