Do NOT remove ANY addons!

Srsly now blizzard? After 20 years, you just decided to flip the switch on combat log and destroy the most valuable addons the community has?

Has any of you thought that the game is heavily dependant around those addons and without them we wont be able to play it?

Lol why you remove nameplates is customization giving us an ‘‘unfair advantage’’?

I get it you want to make the game noob friendly to attract new blood cause old timers got sick and tired of WoW 1 for 20+ years and not developing WoW 2 instead.

But instead this will be the last nail in the coffin.

Go ahead remove them i cant wait for WoW 2 and this time implement the ‘‘addons’’ yourself nice and optimized.

Do NOT remove ANYTHING you will kill the game.

This is my feedback i have been playing since 2005 and many of my friend are upset about this and a lot have said that they will quit the game because of this.

Like i said this is my feedback take it or leave it, its your game that is at stake.

It is wrong to remove addons from WoW if you want a noob friendly game go play something else.

Ppl quit wow and the numbers fall not because of the complexity and the ''overwhelming" add-ons but because its 20 yo engine that has surpassed its lifetime by a long and ppl spent 3k for PC with 9800x3d and 5090 and they like put that hardware into good use and play modern egine games like UE5.

Instead of just turning the switch on combat log thinking that you actually make something good for the game why dont you put some effort to finally start developing WoW 2?

It will keep you occupied for another 20 years no other game has achieved that.

Quit on milking that old cow and finally deliver us WoW 2 blizzard.

This is my last word and hear it good.

Addons and its customization is what kept me to WoW for so long.

Go ahead criple your game and sent away your loyal customers just to gain the chance to attract new noob friendly blood.

If you are a player who is fine without using addons or don’t like using them then don’t use them, but dont take them away from the ones that actually utilize them…

Maybe remove automation addons like Hekili and GSE but nothing else.

But then you implement automation 1 button rotation thing? lol

Finally, if you want to remove add-ons 20 years in is a bad time to do so, taking away something ppl learned to use, like and enjoy using is just wrong, we have become to much dependent on add-ons with this game and thats a plus for the game if you ask me, there is no other mmo that supports so much customization and thats a good thing that keeps the game alive despite the graphics from 2004.

Instead, if you want to do things right, and you really want to remove add-ons as a good thing you can’t do it in WoW 1 but only if you make WoW 2 from scratch and build it like a modern mmo with the functions an mmo needs to be implemented into your UI and don’t allow modders to create any addons ever, it is that simple, but no you don’t want to make things right you just want to take shortcuts don’t you?

Just let us be! PvE will become impossible hardish for no reason and PvP will be a dull combat that no1 understands what is going on.

The game is to much complicated and over developed to remove addons at this point of time i wonder how you ppl dont see that?

Like i said no1 is forcing anyone to use addons for the ppl that dont need them or dont like them, hey just don’t use them! You don’t have to use them if you get along without them, don’t waste your time installing and setting up an add-ons.

Removing them won’t make the game simple and easy and polished it will still be the same old overdeveloped wow but without understanding the mechanics and tracking yours and enemy skills is just a pure downgrade to the strategic gameplay aspect of the game and many of us will be lost.

There is a REASON those addons where created in the first place!

Don’t like them? then dont use them its that simple! and let blizzard implement their own crappy versions, but dont take away something we have adopted and eventually love to use for years now!

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They dont want your customisation add-on they just want to go after combat add-ons.

They want to end that war between them and the add-ons where both sides permanently need to surpassed the other side.

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I mean Plater is a bit overpowered don’t you think?
Hekili too for example, you can run heroic raids and get mythic dungeon achievements with Hekili without even knowing how to play your class.
I feel like they have lost control over addons, that’s why they’re implementing their own so they can balance them to some extent.

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if you follow that addon your dps is going to be very sub par and your logs with be awful , its ok to learn from at the start but to use in heroic and high level keys is a no no.

no not at all it should be a basic in game item already its just blizzards UI is so poor.

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I think this topic is just a rant or rage-bait, but…

Everyone has their own opinion about the most “valuable addon”
For me, i don’t use or need any combat addons, since i don’t play endgame and out of endgame grind/loop.

To my humble knowledge, there is two “heavily addon dependent” group of players: Roleplayers and Auctioneers. Average WoW player will simply lose a quality of life features, but will be able to play quite normally in “disable all addons” scenario.

Now i understand your frustration. I just took over my sister’s account 3 years ago and once i saw addon, which makes loud noises into yours ears, when you need to do something - I immediately called it a cheating, judging from the others games perspective.
By definition, this is a third party thing that you need to download manually and import into game, so the addons looked a bit wild to me at first.

And there are inconsistencies in your post. If you’ve been playing since 2005, that means you remember game without addons and you didn’t quit then, so what’s the problem now?

I find WoW is quite noob-friendly in any state.
From Classic to Retail, this is a game about staying and hitting, occasionally interrupting casts.
Statements like “This game is so hard, only cool true gamers can play it!” about WoW is usually indicate that someone wants to assert themselves.

There is a lot of different ways to play WoW: from retail hamsterwheel with artificial sense of progression to RP, twinking and even self-challenges.
Players need to have a dedication to find theirs ways, but there is a lot more.
And if you don’t like other ways to play WoW, that doesn’t mean they’re irrelevant.

However, I am interested in a more detailed explanation of this statement:

I understand RP addons, where players can create whole new quest/item/NPC interactions, but there is no mentions about removing such addons.
What addons are you talking about? Maybe I should try them before they get removed.

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Of course!
Yeah, I heard Blizzard is gonna release their own nameplate addon or w/e they call it.

The game back then had at most 2 stuff happening at the same time that you had to monitor; now we have over 10. Addons emerged to help with this.

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a Game should not need addons to stay alive and be playable .
its 2025 people,

look at this video on youtube and you will understand how other games are doing.

its witcher 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nthv4xF_zHU

JUST for few seconds look at the zone and the view,

in 2025 we have games that are going to be like real life in another world and yet we have people that are saying dont remove addons.
EVEN we have people that are playing classic wow in 2025!

im just speechless.

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Addons like DBM were around back then in 2005 as well plenty of the ones being removed/changed were also so i find this part of your post somewhat strange.

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As i said, im pretty new in the game, so i just assumed that addons back then was not that popular/advantages - which is my point.

And according to google, DBM was created 2007-2008, but discussing this will be off-topic.

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I unsure “nameplate” and “combat text floating” addons are combat CD or customisation.
They will remove or stay?

Addons have alwaus been popular in this game. And while I somewhat agree that the functionality of some is a bit extreme (WA essentially acting like a super raidleader and solving mechanics for you), I think that straight out removing them is a bad idea. Limit the functionality of WA sure, and keep on adding the addons to the base game but dont remove players choice. Blizzards current track record regarding addon integration has been lackluster at best. Edit mode is a far inferior version of any UI addon and the CD tracker feels decades away from WA. I am not confident on Blizzard to introduce a suitable replacement for Platter.

And as a side tangent… Why the hell apre they thinking that removing OmniCD is a good idea. That along with MDT should have integrated not straight up removed. I am sure that a lot of RPs would have loved the incorporation of TRP, I personally would have loved the incorporation of ClassColors. Why are they picking a fight they cant win straight out the bat?

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If the removal of an addon cauases you the quit the game it’s a you problem.

People have become far too dependant on them.

Nope, the base UI is absolute garbage at giving you information. Its a not a reliance, its Blizzards fault in introducing the need for them without actually improving the base games way to telegraph mechanics and the need to track other peoples CDs.

And before you go “but Blizzard will remove such mechanics” or “Blizzard will introduce their own version of X addon”. There is no reason to trust them that will do it competently or at all for that matter.

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I will fully agree it’s partly on Blizzard. But its also on the players for becoming too dependant.

The game is playable without addons, that’s simply a fact.

At what level?

Oh no, now you can’t play the game with your eyes closed because there won’t be 20 addons screaming in your face what to do. The horror. The tragedy.

…wat?

Do you feel the same way of people learning to play musical instruments, pressing the notes as directed?

It’s a guide, nothing more… it’s not playing the game for you, and you’re going to be slow if you’re just staring at it instead of learning to do without it eventually.

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now try playing the game blind or partial sighted then rethink what you just said.

Dude, there are obvious expceptions for this, like those who have visual impairment. This really needs to be said in 2025?
But that should be the devs responsibility to implement systems that help those players, not the modders/those who make addons.

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