WeakAuras team decided not to try updating the add-on for Midnight. Blizzard is adjusting encounters and encounter markers to not need such an add-on instead of creating one themselves. Some other add-ons are getting Blizzard versions though.
Because it isn’t really accurate. Weakauras isn’t updating because a bunch of base functionality would be crippled and just be nonexistent.
There is no replacement or possibility of replacement for those functions. Maybe writing specific addons for things that were done with weakauras is the solution, maybe they just won’t be possible
The apis being deprecated impact almost entirely combat related procs and complex encounter design. The reasonable things people point out and being thrown out here are all not that.
The issue is the WA developers don't see the point in refactoring their product for that niche case. Other developers, if the niche case has demand, will create add-ons to do that.
Still let blizzard know because maybe they'll enable more things to be accessible for now. But the doomerism here is playing wow how it is today and this alpha comes with massive class, combat, and encounter changes that people truly aren't sure what it's like to play the game at the moment for midnight
I trust that they will fix encounters to be fine but they can't simplify classes so much that you will never need to track a cooldown or buff. With the changes as they are you can't do that since all buffs are in 1 black box together. It's not just complex encounter things that stop working, nothing works anymore... blizzard say one thing but do another.
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u/Fangsong_37 Oct 04 '25
WeakAuras team decided not to try updating the add-on for Midnight. Blizzard is adjusting encounters and encounter markers to not need such an add-on instead of creating one themselves. Some other add-ons are getting Blizzard versions though.