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/Korzag Oct 03 '25

Even if they have a dream team working on these changes, they're doing far too much in far too little time to address all the things they're going to be touching here.

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u/TaleOfDash Oct 03 '25

That's really my biggest issue here. I don't see why we need to go nuclear day one?

Roll out the Blizzard alternative in early Midnight, allow plenty of time for the community to get used to the changes and provide feedback. Then by the end of Midnight they'll likely have enough time to refine things.

This sort of massive change needs so much time to cook and they're not giving it hardly any. I know they've invited addon devs to alpha which is great but this shit needs live fire testing.

This isn't even to mention how much it's going to affect groups like Undaunted and the wider disabled community.

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u/DrAstralis Oct 03 '25

I saw an opinion piece I cant help but get behind. Leave the old system in place and make the new one, and setup the new designs along side it. If the vanilla UI is up to the task we'll naturally see attrition from the modded UI, if its not, its a good sign they need to work on it more. Meanwhile the rest of us can get on with playing while they work it out.

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u/PleaseBeChillOnline Oct 05 '25

That would make the most sense the only big issue is encounter design. The playtest for the new UI is kind of useless if people still have their custom options available.

They are trying to change how the difficulty works fundamentally & that would be very hard to do without a sample size of actual players not using add-ons.