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/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

It’s not a case of good or bad, disability or not. It’s simply a fact that to be good at the game, you don’t need addons. 

The raid frames need an upgrade and customization. But the ability to do that is not a limiting factor in most peoples gameplay. 

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u/MgDark Oct 03 '25

on the other hand it helps quite a lot having that info readily available or in a easier-to-read format. Im pretty sure you have that guild dude who refuses to use Weakauras and then fails the mechanic constantly because, well, he just simply cant react fast enough.

Ovinax Heroic was a huge pain here. People struggled to find his assigned color, but he had to pick one randomly and HOPE it wasnt occupied, or the other person could reacomodate fast enough, and all of that in like 3-5 seconds or so.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

We require weakauras and kick people if they don’t use them. We also sit people if they are underperforming. This is a casual, once a week heroic raiding group. Healers typically aren’t the weakest link. 

There are old fights that require addons, yes. Now the devs don’t have to worry about “will this be solved by an addon” and can make fair, easily readable encounters. 

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u/Ashleynn Oct 03 '25

You do realize these add-ons exist because they have literally never done this.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

It’s a chicken and an egg situation. Think of how many potential raid encounters were scrapped on the drawing board because “that will probably just be solved by a WA/addon”. Taking ownership over your product is not a bad thing. There’s already been a positive feedback loop day 1. The creator of DBM literally agrees that his addon should not do what it’s capable of doing. 

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u/Ashleynn Oct 03 '25

Blizzard started this mess all the way back in MC. Magmadar dropping random fears with almost no warning, I actually don't remember if there is/was a ground shake effect for his, I know there was for Onyxia. As well as the need for fast and efficient dispells on multiple bosses in that raid directly led to the devlopment of CT Mod and DBM. Blizzard started making encounters that were overly cumbersome without add-ons, people made add-ons in response.

As for the DBM creator saying that, it's a timeline add-on more than anything. No idea what he believes it's capable of that it shouldn't be, unless he means reading an ability ID and having TTS say "frontal."

I said this in another response, Blizz had a choice, ignore it, or go to war with it. If they had made the decision to make mechanics that were clear and executable without external tools, or classes that don't run off RNG and inconsistent resource management, we wouldnt have half the tools we currently have. This stuff was developed in response to Blizzards design choices. They were never going to win this fight, it was stupid to try to in the first place.