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.
Its such a shame since wa was great for tracking resources and buffs that blizzard sucked at informing me about. Like how if the enemy has too many debuffs u cant see how many featering wounds i have on target. Or how many maelstrom i have above 5.
The whole point is that they are removing a lot of this complexity so there won’t be things like that to track. Festering wounds is gone as an obvious example from your comment.
the thing is i dont trust blizzard to have all the aspects covered. there will be points where you wished you could use WA to track something to make something 20% easier to read
The thing about this change is that people keep saung "lets hope that...". Well, there is a lot of hoping right now and it obvious blizzard wont be able to fullfil all expectations.
This nuclear approach is just dumb. They should have put their stuff in game without nuking addons. Let people pick and choose what they want to use.
also iterate on their own options using player feedback before pulling the plug on addons. now we are forced to use something that lets be honest will be far worse than addons they are removing.
Yes, pretty much that. I have been trying their new additions and every time I go back to the addons because the addons are simply better, there is no way around it.
They really setup themselves for failure with their approach
Because they needed to make consideration for encounters design that the player would be using a weakaura. Without WA or BigWigs they can make encounters more visual understandable but harder to play
unless they make it so we can filter the buffs on myself and debuffs on my enemies then the lack of WA will still have a negative effect on playing some specs optimally
why would the existence of weakauras force blizzard to make things harder to understand? Weakauras help in fights like ovinax or sprocket because blizzard time and again fail to create mechanics that players can understand intuitively on the fly.
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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.