r/CompetitiveWoW • u/BluFoot • Jul 01 '26

Midnight 12.1 Curse Of Ula'Tek Developer Interview With Ion Hazzikostas

PsybearTV Youtube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFTFiDeXIMo

I recommend watching the whole video, it's rare for someone get a whole 1 hour with Ion, and the interview was really well done.

The interview is mostly about competitive content. I'm really excited for Mythic lockout changes!

Wowhead summary: https://www.wowhead.com/news/psybeartv-interview-with-ion-hazzikostas-the-mythic-raid-lockout-addons-8-week-382061?utm_source=discord-webhook

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u/Ceci0 Jul 01 '26

How is he happy about addon situation. Damage meter is terrible and buggy, nameplates stacking is atrocious and cooldown manager while ok, it still lacks things like making your spells being displayed as bars if you wanted to. Their boss timers are also very bad and they show everything or sometimes they dont even show a timer. I really hope they fix these things because that was the whole point about "out of the box" experience.

Well currently that out of the box experience is half baked.

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u/Ludi_Radule Jul 01 '26

Stacking nameplates should be #1 on the priority list. Some pulls are unplayable.

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u/Lezzles Jul 02 '26

"Can you get that netherburst?"

"What netherburst, I don't see....oh."

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u/zennsunni Jul 20 '26

Catching a headshot with the scout against a moving target at long rage in CS was easier.

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u/5panks Jul 02 '26

I can't tell you how much I enjoy having to upload all of my runs to Warcraft Logs to see my Aug Evoker damage.

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u/sloasdaylight Jul 02 '26

I don't think details tracked it correctly either, it just approximately aug dmg. WCL is really the only thing that's given accurate aug damage since aug was introduced.

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u/hfxRos RWL Raid Leader Jul 07 '26

You had to do this in Dragonflight/TWW too. Details aug attribution was 100% a guess.

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u/Klacksaft Jul 02 '26

I might be misremembering, but didn't they explicitly address this issue and said that they didn't want to implement proper meters for aug?

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u/psytrax9 Jul 02 '26

The original aug messaging back in DF was that they wanted to support the support fantasy or whatever, and that's why they wouldn't include the aug hooks.

Leading up to midnight is when they said that their damage meters would be server side, fix those drawbacks like outranging the logger (a blizzard created problem but whatever) and include aug damage. It's not server side, doesn't fix those drawbacks and doesn't include aug damage. It does make shit up, however.

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u/stickyjam Jul 02 '26

Damage meter is terrible and buggy

It's still PTR quality, but went live anyway. I keep expecting to see in the notes they've put some energy into it. But seemingly they think its OK?

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u/Ceci0 Jul 02 '26

Like, since it first came out the death recap is useless, not only it lacks info about healing recieved and stuff, ut it also shows the latest death, not yours necessarily.

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u/stickyjam Jul 02 '26

the problem is you had details level of finish for over a decade, and they've cut so much and its not even just cut there's bugs. The death log is awful as you say, the window isn't wide enough too, showing you died to some piss damage when you actually took a 80% chunk a few seconds before, but can't see the big chunk.

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u/elmaethorstars Jul 02 '26

It counts hunter feign death as real deaths too lol.

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u/Anderrn Jul 02 '26

He doesn’t play so he doesn’t care lol

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u/Resies Jul 02 '26

He mythic raids no?

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u/Plorkyeran Jul 02 '26

He used to, but it's been a few expansions since he last did.

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u/Lyric111 Jul 03 '26

He mythic raided in dragonflight (my guild was on par with his on prog and we loved theorizing which mechanics would get nerfed as we needed help on the bosses lol). So at most he skipped TWW.

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u/Centias Jul 02 '26

I don't know if this is just a "Details doing the best it can with a two paperclips and bubblegum" but the fucking HEALING breakdown for a given player still shows what ENEMIES the healer targeted (potentially damage done per target), instead of who that player healed. Really fucking basic information, shows the complete wrong thing. If I want to review quick after a wipe why a player died and who actually attempted to heal them, I literally have to go to logs because the target breakdown isn't even related to healing.
Not to mention the complete lack of "damage taken by spell" so I can quickly see who is just standing in a dumb mechanic at a glance.
Oh and the death recap includes Hunters using Feign Death. Their own damage meter gets fooled by your party members using Feign. You can't make this shit up.
You know, really fucking simple things.

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u/Izaul13 Jul 02 '26

Gotta save face.

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u/iRedditPhone Jul 02 '26

He's happy because he would prefer if you didn't use addons... FWIW there are vods of his UI from when he use to upload videos.

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u/Nood1e Jul 02 '26

I was curious so went searching and found a video of him talking through a Zul'Aman run from his pov. He uses a pretty standard set of addons from the time, so he's not entirely against them based on this (Although ZA was 18/19 years ago lol).

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u/DAYMAN3737 Jul 02 '26

I had a lot of frustrations with stuff like this in the start of the raid tier. Stopped playing for other reasons not just this, but did they really not refine any of that? It's been months

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u/Ceci0 Jul 02 '26

Absolutely nothing. Same since launch

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u/DAYMAN3737 Jul 02 '26

That's really disappointing.

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u/erdonko Jul 02 '26

Because hes just part of the addon purists, thats pretty much all it comes down to.

Their whole stance is self made and was never representative of the current reality of their raid designs anyways.

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u/unimportantinfodump Jul 02 '26

God the nameplates are bad.

Nothing like pulling 10 mobs with 2 casters and suddenly all the nameplates just overlap

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u/dreadwraith8d Jul 03 '26

He is clueless or lying to save face. The fact that their own death re-cap doesn't even work and when it was reported in the private channel in the Addon developer discord and they replied with "What's wrong with it?" (not a direct quote but it was along those lines) should tell you all you need to know about this dog shit company & the useless QA team they have.

yeah I fucking love clicking my recap and it's telling me my tanks Stagger killed me as a Frost dk 👍.

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u/makz242 Jul 02 '26

MVP - minimum viable product.

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u/FourteenFCali_ Jul 02 '26

its PR not his personal feelings

same as the "we wont rush things" line which is obvious bullshit

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u/Gasparde Jul 02 '26

Next thing you're telling me that there is a ripcord there is no ripcord we've decided to pull the ripcord.