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'There’s Fun In Not Knowing Exactly What’s Going to Happen' WoW Developers On Dungeons and Raids In a Post-Addonpocalypse World

Midnight developers Paul Kubit and Dylan Barker share insights on designing an expansion with fewer addons in play.

World of Warcraft: Midnight's lack of combat addons lets the devs make raids harder without resorting to 'shoot more bullets at you' design, says encounter lead

Barker says this already impacts one of the opening raids of the expansion: "It's cool, because the way that gets harder from ...

WOW addon disarmament shouldn't be judged before midnight, says Blizzard

World of Warcraft's controversial restriction of combat mods can't be understood without new talents and content from next expansion, say developers ...

WOW's lack of combat addons lets the devs make Midnight's raids harder without resorting to 'shoot more bullets at you' design, says encounter lead

"I think many encounter designers [at Blizzard] have been trying to do that over the years." ...
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WoW Midnight Class Pruning Explained — Blizzard Responds to Addon Dependency Concerns

Blizzard explains class pruning changes in WoW Midnight and addresses addon dependency concerns. Here’s what it means for players.

World of Warcraft devs ditch combat addons to make raids harder strategically – not to "shoot more bullets at you"

I guess I don't need this Coding for Dummies book anymore ...

WoW's classes were pruned for Midnight because many were 'built in a world' where its devs assumed they'd be using addons

"We settled into an expectation." ...
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