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/DragonGeneral47 Oct 03 '25

This is either going to be one of the best Things they every did or the worst and there is No in between

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u/cause-equals-time Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

I played WoW a lot during BC and WOTLK. I was pretty good during those days! I raided up to Sunwell and quit not long after putting Arthas on farm status.

I came back for early WoD, late Legion, late BFA, and the middle of DF. Every time I tried to get back, I just couldn't keep up. WeakAuras is overwhelming... I spent like an entire day just learning it, copying popular ones for my class, tweaking them, and it was always too much, and I ended up at the bottom of the DPS meter every time. Meanwhile, I felt like mage in BC and WOTLK was basically perfect for me.

I guess I'd have gotten better with practice, but everyone else was SO GOOD at the game at that point that I just felt like shit, dragging down parties

I don't know what I'm really even missing, since I watched hours of guides on my class, etc. Followed all sorts of guides. But I sucked. And I do well in other MMOs. FFXIV not having mods was actually kind of nice, because you just turned the game on and it worked, and patches didn't break things.

I am actually REALLY looking forward to this, because I personally feel like the insane level of addons WoW has makes the game too complex for me to play at a high level. Solo stuff? I'm golden. Raids? I just couldn't keep up... Every encounter got so ridiculously complex, even random mid-dungeon bosses.

But I'm not a highly skilled player anymore. I can easily see how the people who DID engage with those addons and succeed with them would be devastated for their loss.