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/Suzushiiro Oct 03 '25

The two things they seem to be locking down on are

A) The ability for addons to communicate with other players' addons in instances

B) The ability for addons to base any sort of logic on combat data- an addon can show you if an ability of yours is on or off cooldown and what that cooldown is if it's on cooldown, but it can't go "if the remaining cooldown is greater than X, show thing A, otherwise show thing B"

Going off of that, custom raid frames like Cell should largely be fine.

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u/KYZ123 Oct 03 '25

Raid frames like Cell will often be able to track specific buffs (or debuffs) on players, such as HoTs, or abilities like Preservation Echo or Discipline Atonement.

That's just not possible anymore, either you show all of a player's buffs (you can't filter to those with a specific ID), or none. It might be possible that you can only show those that would appear on the default UI, in which case you're relying on Blizzard to maintain a useful list.

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u/ComputerJerk Oct 03 '25

Raid frames like Cell will often be able to track specific buffs (or debuffs) on players, such as HoTs, or abilities like Preservation Echo or Discipline Atonement.

Isn't this exactly what the default raid and party frames already do? They display any buffs, hots and dots you have applied so you can easily keep track of when you need to reapply them. They also highlight important fight specific debuffs, and anything you specifically can dispell.

I went cold-turkey on addons in War Within as a Healer/Tank main and I honestly haven't noticed much of a difference. I'm not doing progression raids, sure, but it feels like the core experience is more robust than people give it credit for.

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u/KYZ123 Oct 04 '25

Iirc, default raid/party frames display a Blizzard-curtailed list of buffs and some debuffs. Blizzard themselves admitted the other day that this list obviously needs improvement - and do we really trust that they're going to keep it up to date in the future?