{"id":1467555,"date":"2026-01-19T12:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sSP3zV4ieF4XezHvG6PZsD"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:42:47","slug":"wows-combat-ui-mods-break-with-this-weeks-pre-patch-marking-an-enormous-change-for-the-20-year-old-mmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wows-combat-ui-mods-break-with-this-weeks-pre-patch-marking-an-enormous-change-for-the-20-year-old-mmo\/","title":{"rendered":"WoW&#8217;s combat UI mods break with this week&#8217;s pre-patch, marking an enormous change for the 20-year-old MMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/mmo\/world-of-warcraft\/\">World of Warcraft<\/a>&#8216;s changing in a big way\u2014<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/wow-combat-addons-removal\/\">announced a while back<\/a>, Blizzard&#8217;s decided that you shouldn&#8217;t have to download a huge list of UI mods (addons) just to play at a competitive level with others, and will kneecap the ones related to combat in this week&#8217;s patch. Depending on when you&#8217;re reading this, it might&#8217;ve done it already, given the patch launches on January 20.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, &#8220;kneecap&#8221; is harsh. Blizzard&#8217;s made an effort through rounds of beta testing, and continual conversations with addon developers, to try and thread the needle between functionality and form. Basically, the developer doesn&#8217;t want addons to be required\u2014but <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/wow-game-director-steps-in-to-reassure-players-that-its-addon-overhaul-is-a-work-in-progress-and-the-temporary-death-of-cosmetic-mods-is-simply-collateral-damage-that-we-are-working-on-repairing\/\">anything that&#8217;s cosmetic can stay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This means obvious things, like roleplay, map, and bag addons are all fine; It also means there&#8217;s wiggle room in the combat addon sphere for <em>presentation, <\/em>which is nice for customisability, but it also means that certain accessibility features made by addon creators over the years can be maintained. Or so, Blizzard hopes.<\/p>\n<p>This also involves a lot of class redesign. Take my Outlaw Rogue&#8217;s &#8220;Roll the Bones&#8221; ability, for example: Outlaw Rogues are an incredibly fast-paced class, but Roll the Bones saw you managing a set of different buffs that you had to memorize. Each did something entirely different, and had its own priority that determined whether you rerolled your buffs or not.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t even a case of &#8220;more buffs is better&#8221;, either. Some of these boosts were more valuable than others.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what my Roll the Bones buffs even did, because actually making use of it is an &#8220;if > then&#8221; scenario, a decision a computer can solve pretty much immediately. I downloaded a WeakAura (a kind of addon) that made an ugly noise and flashed a big, blaring UI element when I needed to hit the button and literally never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>With the pre-patch, Roll the Bones is completely changed: Instead of a random grab-bag of buffs, you simply get one buff to look out for that scales from one to four bonuses. Every bonus includes the prior buff&#8217;s perks, so now all you have to do is go: &#8220;Did I roll low? Okay, I&#8217;m hitting the button again&#8221;. No addon required. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ll miss it.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I mourn <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/i-m-glad-wow-the-war-within-players-are-having-a-ball-with-their-hero-talents-but-i-had-to-cobble-together-an-ugly-custom-ui-just-to-feel-something-on-my-rogue\/\">custom WeakAura to keep track of my Fatebound coinflips<\/a>. Being able to handcraft entire UI elements to help keep track of your classes&#8217; resources was rad as hell, even if it was time-consuming. I will miss my little pirate flag that popped out of my health bar whenever I got my lucky coin.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Blizzard&#8217;s also made efforts to cover a lot of the functionality that some of these addons tackled\u2014an improved cooldown manager, updated nameplates, home-grown DPS meter, and more are all part of this update, which you can read about <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com\/en-us\/news\/24244455\">via the patch notes<\/a> on the game&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n<p>I do not envy the task Blizzard&#8217;s got ahead of it, even if it&#8217;s clearly done a ton of work to get the game&#8217;s combat mostly addon-free. What we&#8217;re going to see is a constant series of negotiations between what the community wants and the studio&#8217;s own capabilities. We&#8217;ve seen some of that already, with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/wow-devs-plan-to-whitelist-spells-for-use-in-combat-mods-and-addons-and-while-it-looks-like-blizzards-going-soft-im-not-sure-thats-the-whole-picture\/\">certain spells whitelisted<\/a> for use with addons\u2014either in preparations for changes Blizzard&#8217;s not yet made, or for concession&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;ve come around on the idea <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/wows-idea-to-clamp-down-on-combat-add-ons-is-misguided-especially-since-it-could-keep-improving-its-base-experience-without-uh-doing-that\/\">from my initial scepticism<\/a>. I think this marks the start of a healthier WoW, even if our skin&#8217;s gonna sting for a bit where the band-aid was ripped off.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"46020f9c-df37-4ad7-8e73-669878cf3825\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best MMOs\" data-dimension48=\"Best MMOs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:316px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"UjCJY9gjRfatHZjCuGMrhR\" name=\"elden ring square cheer.jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wows-combat-ui-mods-break-with-this-weeks-pre-patch-marking-an-enormous-change-for-the-20-year-old-mmo.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"316\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-mmos\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"46020f9c-df37-4ad7-8e73-669878cf3825\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best MMOs\" data-dimension48=\"Best MMOs\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Best MMOs<\/strong><\/a>: Most massive<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-strategy-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best strategy games<\/strong><\/a>: Number crunching<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-open-world-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best open world games<\/strong><\/a>: Unlimited exploration<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-survival-games-on-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best survival games<\/strong><\/a>: Live craft love<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-horror-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best horror games<\/strong><\/a>: Fight or flight<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/wows-combat-ui-mods-break-with-this-weeks-pre-patch-marking-an-enormous-change-for-the-20-year-old-mmo\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft&#8216;s changing in a big way\u2014announced a while back, Blizzard&#8217;s decided that you shouldn&#8217;t have to download a huge list of UI mods (addons) just to play at a competitive level with others, and will kneecap the ones related to combat in this week&#8217;s patch. Depending on when you&#8217;re reading this, it might&#8217;ve done it already, given the patch launches on January 20. Alright, &#8220;kneecap&#8221; is harsh. Blizzard&#8217;s made an effort through rounds of beta testing, and continual conversations with addon developers, to try and thread the needle between functionality and form. Basically, the developer doesn&#8217;t want addons to be required\u2014but anything that&#8217;s cosmetic can stay. This means obvious things, like roleplay, map, and bag addons are all fine; It also means there&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wows-combat-ui-mods-break-with-this-weeks-pre-patch-marking-an-enormous-change-for-the-20-year-old-mmo\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1467556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,135,1080],"class_list":["post-1467555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-mmo","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WoW&#039;s combat UI mods break with this week&#039;s pre-patch, marking an enormous change for the 20-year-old 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