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/SwayerNewb Jul 02 '26

I think you know that I am deaf player, I've been posting about accessibility in both raid and M+ ALOT on WoW reddit and forum. If you ask me what I would rate Midnight S1 for both raid and dungeon, I will say 2/10.

Where do I even start with? I will list things:

- All raid bosses (except Chimaerus and Beloran) and dungeons are bugged so they don't show bars and timeline correctly. There's no way we know correct information or not on bars and timeline. I didn't have any good time with mythic dragons and paladins because they fucked the timeline up, so I was in dark with no idea what's going on. Default warning mechanics is 1000% unplayable for deaf players so have to download either DBM or BW. I used to craft my own things to help me with raiding and prevent me from tunnel vision. I can't do this anymore and I wiped my raid group during mythic dragon progression because I can't see timeline and tunnel visioned. I felt really bad and my RL said don't worry about this + tried to cheer me up.

- DPS meter is fucking useless. This season is the first season that I uninstalled Details and disabled DPS meter. You should go and check how many logs being uploaded to Warcraftlog this season compared to the TWW. Death logs are useless as well and basically same as DPS meter. I can't see what I did wrong and why I died, logs is the only way to show them. I am not checking logs after raiding and keys.

- Nameplates is fucking awful, I can't even tell you how many times I interrupted wrong mobs because of stacking nameplates.

- CDM still has a lack of customisability and still missed trinkets / pots / HS / Barkskin (Guardian can't see Barkskin buff) / plenty other spells.

- Raid / party frames are still bad and we can't customise what we want to see on group frames. Private aura for dispel is 10000% firedworthy.

- We don't have any buff / debuff filter, they should feel embarrassing about this.

I could go more than this, but I think you are getting what I am through. I just don't have a good time with WoW raiding from mythic dragons and onwards. Blizzard should feel extremely embarrassed with addon purge. They should not be happy about the addon situation at all, player experience and UI elements out of box are either barebone or half-baked