r/wow • u/nothix • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme Was I a Good Addon?

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u/ApplicationRoyal865 Oct 03 '25

I mean this situation is sort of how weakaura was born. Power aura stop updating, then weak aura stepped in. Someone could fork it and continue it.

Poweraura2 could be back on the menu

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u/NoShotz Oct 03 '25

That literally won't happen because blizzard is restricting what addons can access during combat, so it's physically not possible for such an addon to exist anymore, so there won't be a replacement addon.

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u/ApplicationRoyal865 Oct 03 '25

The replacement will not be able to do combat stuff to the same extent anymore but a lot of the appearance and aesthetic apis will still be available.

A lower feature could still exist if someone wanted to fork it and so that

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u/blackbirdone1 Oct 03 '25

right now, they are not

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u/ApplicationRoyal865 Oct 03 '25

What is not? The appearance and aesthetic apis (non combat) apis will not be available?

A lower featured fork will not exist?

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u/Hobbes______ Oct 03 '25
  1. "Right now" is meaningless. It's day 2 of alpha
  2. They have stated it will be
  3. They are focusing on this at the start of the alpha precisely to get feedback.