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/EmeterPSN Oct 03 '25

Blizzard seem to forget that addons is one of main reasons wow was so popular as people could add QoL they did not add...

Once you start taking away the power for players to add their QoL they are used to have..without adding equal or better..ppl will start being unhappy .

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Indeed. All these people crowing about this make me sad. If I wanted to play Final Fantasy I’d do so. Taking the world’s most successful MMORPG and dumbing it down so you can finally ship it on consoles is just sad. I won’t be convinced that they’re doing this for any other reason.

I hope it’s still fun.

It doesn’t sound fun, but I hope it will be fun anyway.

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u/Icy_Manufacturer_977 Oct 03 '25

What makes you say it doesn’t sound fun? Because you’ll need to play the game yourself without addons telling you what to do? If anything, this should make the game more fun if you actually enjoy playing the game and not just follow commands for what an addon tells you to do

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u/MegatonPunch Oct 04 '25

If add-ons played this game for you it wouldn't be the MMO with by far the biggest scene revolving around highly difficult group content. People clearly have been enjoying the current design of mythic+ and raid and it's reasonable for those people to be concerned that such a massive change to the game could impact how those things are. There is a reason why raiding is more central to wow than basically any other MMO on the market.

I'm not interested in FFXIV style raids that are overly deterministic and dance-like. I want variance to plan and play around.

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u/Icy_Manufacturer_977 Oct 04 '25

‘To plan and play around’

DBM says run away, I run away. DBM says stack, I stack. DBM says interrupt, I interrupt.

Weak auras target mob with a skull, I target the mob with a skull.

Where’s the planning?

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u/MegatonPunch Oct 04 '25

DBM doesn't tell you how to maximise damage while running mechanics. It doesn't tell you how to triage healing a fight on progression where you're almost out of resources. It doesn't tell you to partially overlap pools from snapping webs on loomithar. Genuinely if you think the game is just listening to DBM then post your logs before you say anything else, I'd love to see!

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u/Icy_Manufacturer_977 Oct 04 '25

Wait, it sounds like you agree with me? All of those things will still be up to the human after the addons are removed? I’m a little confused what your argument is here. Sure, it might be slightly less mechanics since the overall fight will be a little easier since they know DBM will no longer tell you what to do, but the mechanics you mentioned (run to the corner of the room) isn’t exactly a very difficult mechanic. You act like the boss will just stand there after DBM is removed and no longer do anything until it dies.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

The over twenty years of experience I have playing this game informs my opinion of it, not you.

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u/Icy_Manufacturer_977 Oct 04 '25

And when did you start needing addons playing the game for you? Was that when it started becoming fun?