Immediately in this first day of testing, we’ve seen feedback on how currently, there’s a complete lockdown on the ability for addons to parse chat and addon-comms channels while in instances. We’re seeing it break addons that support loot councils, break timers, and other benign communications (e.g. sharing raid notes or M+ keystone information).
We agree that this is starting out excessively broad, and we’re going to make changes to only apply the new logic while there is an active raid encounter or M+ run underway. Our goal will be to make it so that tools that facilitate sharing information before or after combat won’t be impacted.
When making changes could you look at two more use cases?
Tracking achievement progress for Glory of the raid achievements. If I understood the addon changes correctly the achievement progress addons will definitely break. This wouldn’t be so bad if the ingame achievement tracking for these achievements was good enough. From Manaforge Omega two giant pains that would occur in tracking with these changes would be the Plexus Sentinel and Fractillus achievements.
Tracking the interrupts of group members in m+. Whether or not they have their interrupt on cooldown. It’s already a challenge to properly coordinate interrupts when on voice. We’ve really needed a Weak Aura that displays whose interrupts are available for use. There will really need to be a way to track this through the base client in Midnight.
Unsure if I’m missing something, but I can’t get the sound alerts in the cooldown manager to make any sounds at all. I’ve tried multiple options, include text to speech, but no sounds are being produced.
Nameplate Stacking
The nameplate stacking default behavior is still really bad. I haven’t made any adjustments to my nameplate settings yet and out of the box it’s not very usable. Here’s an example: https:// imgur .com/a/NmTyiCJ (forums won’t let me post a link so remove the spaces)
I have 2 targets right in front of me but instead of the nameplates stacking on top of each other like a neatly organised list, the Shadowmonger’s nameplate is way off to the lefthand side giving the impression that the mob isn’t right in front of me at all.
Item comparison on by default
I remember reading notes about this somewhere but I can’t find it in the Alpha notes. Either way, please add an option to turn the automatic comparison off again, as far as I can see there is none at the moment.