Hi,
Do you think the developers might consider expanding the customization options of the Blizzard default UI in the future? As a healer, I find the current UI quite limiting — especially since it’s not possible to adjust the size of HoT indicators (like Atonement, Rejuvenation, etc.) or debuff icons.
I’m asking because I’m genuinely concerned that at some point, addons such as Cell, ElvUI, and similar tools might get restricted or even banned, which would leave healers with very limited options.
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I really hope they improve a lot of the UI with the removal of various addons in the future. With standard UI it’s much harder to see what is going on with enemies compared to when you use Plater.
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I don’t think they’ll touch anything like ElveUI, etc. They really only want to restrict/get rid of combat helpers that help a bit too much and made them develop around them over the past years.
The Blizzard UI is STILL awful. I still have no reason to stop using bartender and ZPerl.
But as Nannex correctly said, QoL add ons aren’t really Blizzard’s main concern, combat add ons which some could argue gives players an advantage are their concern.
Hopefully.
Personally I’d love if Blizz made DOT countdowns appear on skills to know how soon you need to reapply something.
I’ve just used the default UI for a number of years now, and it honestly works fine…for the kind of content I’m doing, which is on the more easy and casual side of things.
And I think where the UI comes up short is with regards to high-end content, because that content has become so driven by optimization and performance that the UI doesn’t provide adequate support in that regard, for example with regards to tracking DoTs and cooldowns and mechanics and timers and what not.
But I don’t think Blizzard’s solution to getting rid of all the add-ons is to replace them with their own. That would also be a somewhat redundant effort. Rather, I think their solution will be to get rid of the add-ons and then simplify a lot of the gameplay so that it isn’t so focused around optimization and performance, and therefore doesn’t demand all the fancy tools that add-ons currently provide.
Ultimately I think Blizzard just wants WoW to have a simple and straight-forward default UI with a couple of extra features that players can enable if they want, but otherwise keep Pandora’s box of add-on functionality closed. And then the WoW gameplay will simply have to conform to that UI experience in terms of boss encounters and such.
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I doubt they fix it if they would they would’ve done so already, and now forcing everyone on default interface is a goal in the future probably to force the same kind of feedback that has been shared a ton of times already that keeps being ignored.
WTB back EnemyGrid for us DoT’ers 
Once they disable some cd and conditions tracking addons from api my hope is that it would also harm botting. And then I hope they add some basic stuff on party frames what both pve/pvp use. Otherwise I wish continue with our own custom nameplates and hotbars cause I dont like the default ones.
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I think any kind of UI improvement is always welcome.
It’s just if they can make it visually appealing, which also being useful at the same time.
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Mass Botters do NOT run the game through WoW’s client.
Their functionality will be the same as what a player can do as far as inputs go.
Ever done a tracerouting though CMD Prompt? That’s what botting software looks like, a black screen with all them numbers. Think of it being able to play chess with just the letters and numbers without any visuals.
One PC can run dozens of bots at the same time.
I didn’t mean any farm bots. I was thinking the bots that ppl use in PvP that read conditions of you what you do and react to it, press cc and it shadowmelds it etc. I hope they track info from combat log like addons. Would be nice if they also stopped working. Ppl have paid monthly subs for bots like that for forever. I dont even care setup combat weakauras to feed me conditions from game like almost everyone does, and then so many also just play the game with full bot AI’s doing perfect globals and 100% perfect dodges. If we get rid of these too then how great that would be. You go pvp these days and its like hearing star wars R2D2 noices there with all these bots in every 1/5 game you enter 
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elvui has alot of things combat based so it would be stupid to think elvui would be left untouched .it will have alot of its functionality taken out .
good news for u with ai technology bots will get even smarter . 
in future .
blizzard answer would be afk pvp rotation helper .in the end they will just put out statement like they did when they introduced wow tokens and tried to justify it as fight against rmt .
You shouldn’t believe everything you read on Reddit!
Botting software NEEDS to have the client running. The software INTERACTS with the client in forms of movement/abilities etc. A lot using a python based pixel system as well, which NEEDS the client running.
If you honestly believe that they have a command prompt window is being used, without a WoW client being needed… oh boy… tiktok brain in full effect.
Also, if a bot is using a CMD Prompt to control/move/use whatever in World of Warcraft, Warden would pick up on that INSTANTLY because that data is so easy to verify.
The one thing you have right, is 1 computer will run multiple clients of World of Warcraft.
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I wasn’t being literal with the command prompt, I was talking about how it looks… people think botting is having your WoW client open and seeing your character running about on it… IT DOES NOT.
Maybe for those sold to Joe Regular does, but mass botting on a grand scale doesn’t.