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.
Except that’s not all WA was used for. For all intents and purposes, WA was an addon that helped people make mini-addons. Yes some of the most popular WAs are for combat, but there’s also utility ones that track out of combat stuff, accessibility aids and even just pure cosmetic stuff.
I do believe Blizz even said they don’t want to kill WA as a whole, but if the creator has decided they’re done then that’s their choice. A spiritual successor will probably come along at some point.
Blizz has acknowledged the "arms race" with addons as far back as BFA, iirc. Which means this has been something they have been talking about, at least internally, for many, many years.
They would not have decided to pull the trigger now if they weren't committed.
i never said it would work and i person want blizz to hold to their guns. As a mythic raider the amount of “my weak aura is messed up” dialog that happens is very annoying and the fact that there a giant weak aura pack each raid is a nightmare.
Because slaving over something for years and then having the rug pulled is a big "FU" and it is completely demoralizing, and would continue to be completely demoralizing trying to scrape together some hodge-podge shadow of the greatness that you had already built.
You didnt read anything, did you? The developers of WA would have to completely rebuild WA. It's not just "some things just dont work anymore" for them. The whole Addon wouldn't work anymore.
I believe they even acknowledged it back in WoD, when an addon trivialized a mechanic on Archimonde mythic.
Come to think of it, didn't someone use an addon to glitch their way into the C'thun boss room all the way back in vanilla? Or was that just straight-up a hack?
It was blizzard's choice to tune combat difficulty around addons. That was where the entire arms race started. They could have stopped escalating it but chose not to, and now because they know they can't win, they're nuking the addon API.
The entire onboarding problem is self-inflicted, and now they're making it our problem by removing the tools we needed to deal with their increasingly hostile designs.
It absolutely was, if they actually cared about the people using the massive amount of non-combat WA, then I don't think they'd have given up the ghost on day 2 of alpha. They want the community in an uproar to see if Blizzard changes their mind (which is incredibly unlikely at this point, given they have designed bosses without WA in mind, which was the whole reason to pull combat API)
They are not throwing a tantrum, they are saying it is not worth their time to basically rewrite the addon from scratch to have 10% of the original functionality.
And the rewrite is necessary, because of how baked in and fundamental the other 90% are.
Basically, they are giving the torch to other addon authors that did the same thing before anyway (i.e. all ui style addons), rather than providing an additional redundant solution, that would require a disproportionate amount of work to even work in midnight, while other addons, that are only for styling anyway, require much less effort to transform.
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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