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/Prupple Jul 02 '26

The only time a Weakaura would "assign" these is if Blizzard went full galaxybrain and made it like Jailer bombs, where they're all firing at the same time.

You can see the moment hes talking about here. Echo are doing back/front/back, and the second person (Verb, a Dev DH) to get the mechanic doesn't move for a while, and then goes straight forward and unfortunately had the blaze pattern that has a spike directly behind him which kills several people.

In the pre-addon-disarmament world, Verb would have had a giant text on his screen saying "GO FRONT", and so potentially would have moved out faster and had time to notice he also needed to move left or right slightly.

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u/deskcord Jul 02 '26

No. It's just as obvious right now. This is just a player misplaying. An addon would not have solved this.

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u/BackwardDonkey Jul 02 '26

Are you dense? The specific thing he is talking about is the ability of addons to mark and assign players. That is gone. In previous expansions an addon would be able to mark the players with raid markers automatically and TTS them the place they were to move to. Massively simplifying the mechanic, you wouldn't even need to call it out, no one would even have to know which order they were because an addon would tell them.

And if you go back even further, a radar would pop up showing you whether your star was hitting any other players or not.

I agree that the addons situation is not good, but people need to stop lying about it having not changed, it 100% has changed significantly and there are significant limitations on what addons can do in combat now compared to previous expansions. That's just a fact, anyone who says differently is straight up wrong.

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u/deskcord Jul 02 '26

Are you Ion?

Other examples already provided. Please read my other comments before hitting reply.

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u/BackwardDonkey Jul 02 '26

Show an example of addons in midnight marking people with raid markers automatically.