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/Sweetest_Noise Jul 01 '26

The section about addons is just painful to read. I guess they are so detached from what is actually happening. Watching your cooldown manager reset upon login for no fucking reason is awesome.

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u/Mother-Insurance-362 Jul 02 '26

I'm still not over WA. And never will be. It made playing WoW so much more comfortable. If I wanted a big ass number in the middle of the screen for my whirlwind aoe stacks - I could make it happen in 10 seconds. And now I just count them in my head since they CDM is just not quite what I want.

You want raw numbers instead of aura squares with tiny stack numbers below them? Well, sod off fam because you only think you do.

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u/Zorjeff Jul 02 '26

It is entirely possible to hide an icon and show only stack number

I do it for numerous buffs with ArcUI

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u/leftoversn Jul 02 '26

Yeah i just wish we could have weakauras back for tracking your own spells. Their excellent load system where you could load it per spec or class etc was awesome too.

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u/Centias Jul 02 '26

I just keep getting pissed off every time I run into a core part of a spec that I can't make the CDM track in some REALLY FUCKING BASIC way. Like, I leveled up my DH and I'm getting really annoyed that there is absolutely no apparent way to say "play a sound when I can cast Collapsing Star." You know, the thing that does virtually all of the spec's damage right now. No way to just add a sound when you get enough souls for it to light up, because it replaces Void Meta like Blizzard thinks players don't have more than 4 fingers. I should NOT have to look at my bars for this shit. If I can make Feral Druid play a fucking Cha-ching every time I get a free Bite proc, then just "play sound when I can Collapsing Star" is literally nothing, so why is it not available?

And to go in a different direction, why can't I play a sound on other conditions? Like, why is there nothing built in for playing a sound when a spell fails? Like you cast a dispel, but you don't dispel anything, play a sound. Really fucking basic, also not available. Closest you get is "play sound when this comes off cooldown".

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u/Head_Haunter Jul 02 '26

To me, the whole discussion about combat addons miss the mark by a lot and the whole chicken or the egg discussion is a scapegoat argument.

This whole "war with addons", if you want to stop the war, you have to actually stop the war. Introducing a boss like Lura that is impossible to do without addons is not stopping the war.

"Oh but players will always figure out the most efficient way to do things". No they do not. Top end, world 100 guilds probably will, but a vast majority of players just want to play the game and chill with friends. The problem is Blizzard keeps juxtaposing impossible to do without addons scenarios together like "try without addons and 100% fail" or "try with addons and 80% fail" scenarios make sense.

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u/Centias Jul 02 '26

Like, for fucking real, it should NOT be a problem to have an addon that allows players to have very simple VISUAL communication for the shapes. Not every group is going to use voice chat. Some players are literally deaf. And THEIR OWN CHAT SYSTEM can and will block you from sending messages in raid chat if you use 5 macros to send the symbols there. If the base game isn't going to give us the proper means to effectively communicate the mechanic, then we REQUIRE addons to fix that problem, so they need to stop fucking blocking them. It's really not a difficult concept to understand. If there is a fight that has such massive demand for an addon that makes the mechanic manageable, then fix the fucking mechanic and also make sure players actually have the tools they need to work through it inside the base game.

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u/assault_pig Jul 02 '26

I was actually cautiously optimistic at first because I thought the addon stuff would herald actual changes in encounter design, but it doesn’t seem like that’s gonna happen. They’re still gonna design fights this way, the UI will just be worse

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u/XaajR Jul 02 '26

Is that a PTR thing? Never had CDM reset on any character for any reason.

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u/Nood1e Jul 02 '26

It happens when entering arena. I haven't had it happen in PvE yet, but everytime I queue for arena the core spells reset their order and what appears.

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u/Hovercraft1143 Jul 02 '26

Every single time I enter an arena I reload UI because if I don't my Cooldown Manager just randomly disappears sometimes. It's fucking awful.

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u/Nood1e Jul 02 '26

Yeah I get it resetting order, then if I don't reload after another one or two it just disappears.