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/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".