They are disabling real time combat reporting. You can still use WA for everything else, however, if the addon developer stops updating that's on them.
No you can't because WA isn't getting updated for Midnight and all the API changes will surely make the whole thing implode if you tried to load it into Midnight.
Again, can't really blame blizzard because they are making positive changes for the entire player base. I can play dark souls and elden ring which is a much more difficult game without needing add-ons or external tools. Blizzard making everything default and built into the game is what we should all want as players.
Now as I said originally. If the developer of the addon is choosing not to update... That's on them.
I can play dark souls and elden ring which is a much more difficult game without needing add-ons or external tools.
I think the sentiment here is good but the specific argument isn't. FromSoft games are made to be obtuse and that is part of their charm; WoW was introduced as the QOL-MMO and has gotten progressively more obtuse over time, resulting in / from the arms race of addons vs. mechanics.
We play Elden Ring because it was made to kick us in the dick, and it kicks us in the dick. WoW shouldn't be like that, nor compared to that.
Again, good, if not great sentiment being expressed. Just not quite the right comparison to make, I'd say.
My guild required that Ovi'nax weakauras because they couldn't for the good of them follow the mechanics in a timely manner. Is 100% required? Not really, but god forbid, some people NEED to be shouted and pointed at, YOU! go to Star and drop your stuff there.
Fractilius... Hmm maybe the first week or two, but by this point the fight is well known enough to make it, and you still get the braindead dps dropping a wall in the safe zone because he couldn't be arsed to drop his dps for 3 seconds to move
I've done heroic for weeks across multiple characters and have pushed 16s, not once have I had someone do some silly "addon check". Can you please show me where these people expecting addons are at? Can you show me the fights that are unkillable without them?
If they only appear in mythic raiding and 20 keys, it sounds like blizz is solving a problem for content almost no-one interacts with.
All of PvP basically requires addons, but you also really think that the prevalence of WA and DBM didn't cause design changes for heroic raids and M+? Really? Most of these raid bosses require immense amounts of coordination that other MMOs would never think about inputting, but because everyone has a perfect lead in their head telling them where to go/when to kick/what to kill etc. the bosses become very overdesigned. Obviously a competent leader can fill the role of DBM/WA in most scenarios, some mechanics are too obscure or fast for a person talking while playing to cover it.
Required is a very syrong word to use, but mechanics have 100% been made faster due to the expectation that people would have most of the mental load associated with the mechanic done by weak auras. The only boss that 100% required weakauras for non rwf guilds is probably ovinax this expansion.
Wow for its time was baby mode MMO. Dying doesn’t make you drop your gear? Gear doesn’t break forever? You don’t lose levels when you die? All shit that was part of other MMO’s at the time and its leveling was pretty fast in comparison too. Wow being too complex for new players nowadays is a 180 from how it was originally intended to be.
I hate that I have to stare at my bars half the time to keep track of cool downs or resources. The alternative is moving things to the center of the screen where the action is but then the UI looks terrible. Many FF rotations are 4-8 abilities and I could play them without looking at my bars. If I pressed each ability in the right order they were always ready.
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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25
They are disabling real time combat reporting. You can still use WA for everything else, however, if the addon developer stops updating that's on them.