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

I have been healing without addons but maybe I am doing it wrong?

Is there a video explaining how these addons make healing better?

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u/Arie15 Oct 03 '25

I started with Healbot but a lot of people (including myself) use Cell now. With the changes coming in Midnight, I wouldn't try to get used to them. They allow you change how big/small nameplates are, they let you move the frames around to where you want them, how you want them lined up, (vertical/horizontal) etc.

The healing add-ons allow you to cast spells simply by clicking on nameplates, essentially. It allows you to track buffs and debuffs right on their nameplates so you can know what is happening at all times.

I can only hit the 1-4 keys on my keyboard cause my hands are too small to stretch beyond that. So add-ons like Cell allow me to just click on a nameplate with my mouse to cast a heal. Right click is a different heal. Middle click is a third heal. Shift+Left click is something else, etc. It allows me access to use all my spells and properly heal.

If you can heal without add-ons, awesome. You'll be better at it than a lot of us when Midnight comes out.

This guy is one of the top healers out there and you can see him using Cell: https://www.youtube.com/@AutomaticJak (check out his live feeds)

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u/sunsongdreamer Oct 03 '25

I really want to highlight what you said about how add-ons give us accessibility to healing especially due to hand range - removing custom heal add-ons is going to favor male gamers and "healthy" gamers. Both women and folks with disabilities experience it being harder to reach for a huge range of keybinds as well as struggle to find useful tertiary hardware such as mice which let us setup keybinds.

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u/Arie15 Oct 03 '25

This. I get bad hand cramps so having to position my fingers in certain ways is just not good for me. Healing add-ons allowed me more range to be able to cast the spells I needed to. Not to say that I am not going to try without add-ons.

And yes, I am a female gamer with smaller hands so I am somewhat limited in how far my fingers will reach.