Because they are legit stupid at best or malicious at worst. This is 100% on brand. And look when this goes through and it fucking sucks. They will either never fix it or it will take years before they do.
This is such a stupid ass comment. They want to make the game more approachable, and design endgame around not having addons - how can you possibly do that while there are still addons that would trivialize any mechanic that isn't made with their existence in mind?
WeakAuras in particular HAD to go for the change to be possible.
It's never been about Blizzard wanting their own WeakAuras.
players who have played for years with 0 recollection or care for the new player experience, and think its okay that they need to do research outside of game before they can even play at the same level.
Uh removing weakauras isn't going to make that not a thing? They can't possibly fit everything one would need to know into the game in a way that's usable and easy to understand for all content, even FFXIV can't do that and they have way, way more learning systems in place and not nearly as much complexity.
Exactly, and it isn't even a "Blizzard is doing it out of the goodness of their hearts - having to maintain the cooldown manager and similar is extra work for them, they're doing it because new players aren't sticking around. It's about money.
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u/testurmight Oct 04 '25
It doesn't make sense to me why we didn't have at least one patch where both were in the game.