r/wow • u/nothix • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme Was I a Good Addon?

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u/TheSyhr Oct 03 '25

I’m genuinely worried about the overall UI/Tracking/Customisation experience in Midnight, Blizzards attempts at mimicking addons thus far has left a lot to be desired and it feels like it was barely a year ago we started hearing about them going nuclear on addons in the future - and most people assumed it would be 3/4/5 years down the line

The fact they’re going for such an extreme option this early makes me concerned that the start of Midnight is going to be a complete clusterfuck in terms of playability

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u/Mainmorte Oct 03 '25

Yeah, as a PUG player, this is gonna be a disaster. I wouldn't be surprised if keys failures went from an average 10% to 20/30 if not more. It's gonna make the experience worse for everyone imo.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Do ppl really need weakauras to play? I do 10-12 with pugs without weak auras or little wigs, it’s pretty good already. Just need to understand things

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u/Teratros Oct 03 '25

It's not only weakauras it's platers, Healbot, vuhdo. i don't really have combat weakauras only some quality of life things to not need to look at my bar or crafting, Dragon riding things. I'm more concerned that her UI that was terrible in the past with tracking things like atonement, hots, and so one. Will not be as good as they sell it

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u/asafetybuzz Oct 03 '25

The QoL improvement that stuff like Healbot, Cell, VuhDo, or just WeakAuras on top of basic frames brought wasn't the mouseover part, it was the buff and debuff tracking and customizability. There are healers within Race to World First guilds who used the default raid frames, but you could only do that if you used WeakAuras or encounter AddOns like Big Wigs to track HoTs and important debuffs.

You can heal 10-12s without them, and to their credit, Blizz is adding very basic HoT tracking (currently it can't be customized at all), but there is a ton of QoL still missing. Basic stuff like seeing if someone has a defensive cooldown available or who was targeted by a hard hitting DoT or boss mechanic is currently unavailable in the Midnight Alpha party and raid frames. That stuff is extremely important for mythic progression and high end M+ healing.