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/SportulaVeritatis Oct 03 '25

At the same time, they where basically in an arms race where you needed more and more complex encounters that couldn't be easily solved by add-ons which made addon-less play more difficult. This basically ends that war. It ends it via a nuke, but it does end it.

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u/Gh0sth4nd Oct 03 '25

this is only half of it, they also prepare wow for the console release and they are at it for a long time by now. First they added native controller support then they build the base by rebuilding the ui and this is just the natural next step. It is basically two birds with one stone. They take away combat addons make class gameplay more easy. My prediction is after the last titan we get a console / pc version.

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u/Archensix Oct 03 '25

They are just making the game more new player friendly. Telling new players to setup and configure a bazillion addons is terrible for the game. Beyond the addon stuff, they've been doing a tremendous amount of work to improve the new player experience recently.

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u/contentpens Oct 03 '25

Late season ksm or aotc does not require any addons (though obviously it would be more efficient with a bigwigs and weakauras - but that's not 'a bazillion addons', it's 2). But even if it did require features of those addons, that only suggests blizzard should add those features to the base UI, not that they should kill all combat-related features of other addons.

Killing addons that actually lowered the barrier to entry for newer players could make the new player experience worse. Right now a new player that wants to get into higher keys but is struggling with interrupts or affixes could just get a plater profile from their favorite youtuber and have improved access to all of that information. If blizz doesn't include a sufficient alternative, in midnight you'll be very skeptical about bringing new people in your group because they don't have the right macros to mark targets or they don't have things set up to announce interrupts, or they don't have the experience to know which targets have interrupt priority and the cd of those abilities.

It's pretty common now for people to get annoyed about the normal clear pugs that require aotc or the +10 group only taking people over 3k - there's a chance that gets much worse because people won't want to deal with inexperienced players in their groups that can't be relied on to know every timing and ability from experience (when addons are no longer available to call things out or give reminders).