WoW: Kampf gegen die Addons - Blizzard hat auf ganzer Linie verloren
Summary
Blizzard implemented a sweeping 'addon purge' for World of Warcraft: Midnight that restricted many combat-oriented addons and introduced built-in tools like a cooldown manager and bossmod. The changes provoked strong backlash from addon authors and players, particularly healers, forcing Blizzard to roll back or relax some restrictions (for example restoring HoT visibility) and allowing popular addons and replacements to re-emerge. Third-party projects such as M33kAuras, MiniCC and continued updates to WeakAuras filled many gaps and enabled workarounds, so high-end activities like Race to World First still use addon-assisted solutions. Overall, developers adjusted boss and dungeon design to be addon-independent but community innovation and tolerated workarounds mean addons remain influential in competitive and endgame content.