Just tried to try out the new ability to edit the gamepad ui. After activating the compact UI and moving ii downwards, it disappeared. No reload or logout will bring it back, but if I try to edit the spells on it using the GamepadUI system it shows up again in the top left corner of the screen. Trying to move it on edit mode just brings an error, and saving changes and leaving the edit mode just hides it again. Here is the error:
Message: …Blizzard_EditMode/Shared/EditModeSystemTemplates.lua:312: attempt to perform indexed assignment on field ‘systemInfo’ (a nil value)
Time: Thu Oct 8 19:27:18 2026
Count: 13
Stack:
[Interface/AddOns/Blizzard_EditMode/Shared/EditModeSystemTemplates.lua]:312: in function <…Blizzard_EditMode/Shared/EditModeSystemTemplates.lua:311> with args (self=GamepadMainActionBarFrame MainActionBarFrame.xml:3)
[tail call]: ? with args ((*temporary)=“LeftButton”)
[Interface/AddOns/Blizzard_SharedXML/Shared/Button/UIButtonTemplate.lua]:16: in function <…lizzard_SharedXML/Shared/Button/UIButtonTemplate.lua:12> with args (self=Button EditModeSystemTemplates.lua:540)
Locals:
self=GamepadMainActionBarFrame MainActionBarFrame.xml:3{
downKeys=
hasActiveChanges=false
snappedFrames=
useCompactLayout=false
shouldExpand=true
PageUnit=GamepadMainActionBarFramePageUnit
MainActionBarFrame.xml:12
systemNameString=“Gamepad Action Bar”
resetToDefaultPositionButton=Button
EditModeSystemTemplates.lua:540
isSelected=true
isHighlighted=true
showHighlight=true
settingDisplayInfoMap=
settingsDialogAnchor=
autoLootOnTap=true
showButtonIcons=false
showEmptyBars=true
Selection=Frame
EditModeSystemTemplates.xml:74
system=30
}
(*temporary)=nil
(*temporary)=
{
relativeTo=“UIParent”
point=“BOTTOM”
relativePoint=“BOTTOM”
offsetY=110
offsetX=0
}
(*temporary)=
{
relativeTo=“UIParent”
point=“BOTTOM”
relativePoint=“BOTTOM”
offsetY=110
offsetX=0
}
(*temporary)=nil
(*temporary)=
{
relativeTo=“UIParent”
point=“BOTTOM”
relativePoint=“BOTTOM”
offsetY=110
offsetX=0
}
(*temporary)=“attempt to perform indexed assignment on field ‘systemInfo’ (a nil value)”
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Same issue. They done broke it.
the only way i found to get the gamepad ui back is to scan and repair the wow forever client
though i have also found the gamepad ui will disappear again after you exit the client.
Don’t worry, releasing game soon.
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I guess ConsoleProt addon will be my solution on release day.
So funny but probably true. Blizzard has SO MUCH to work off of whether it’s consoleport or poe2 or whatever other game has executed gamepad use well - but in blizzard fashion they’re like “we are going to copy this but we are going to do it much worse”. 
The API errors make me wanna KMS too. Just not worth using it unless it’s zero add-ons. I really wish they would take some queues from poe2. I can access any radial menu without having to take my fingers off pressing any buttons.
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It’s kinda the worst of both worlds. Longtime, staple addons people rallied around have had their devs dropped out because you can’t make a damage meter, style your floating combat text, or show your icons popping up in a pretty way anymore without jumping through hoops. So what’s left in the void is waiting on them to bring their homegrown stuff up to feature parity (if ever), or thousands of people throwing frontier models at the remaining API surface to try to get some borderline TOS-breaking version of what you used for 15 years with no problems—and no new stable winners emerging 'cause no one’s maintaining that for an audience of two people.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just cut the whole addon API out within a year or two more or less citing that they can’t play War Games against frontier models.
Listening to some of their stuff on addons during early interviews, it’s clear that a few key people on the team don’t use them and have the weird take of “why would you want to do anything to your UI, this game won’t have Mythic+” which is a total deflection. Systems need champions like class designs do, and they don’t seem to have anyone inside who can take a nuanced view of something like a WeakAura; they must just be for cheaters, sweats and weirdos, because we’ve never personally wanted them.
I totally get why they’d take the decisions they have but just like some other options we’ve lost in the last year, when you remove something, imply “we know best” and then don’t deliver features nearly at the level of what you cut down (‘hey turns out this addon stuff might be harder than we thought, and now we have to reluctantly maintain an internal addons team because we killed the old ones people were making for free’), it’s a bummer.
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Can confirm they broke it. A random action bar shows up on my HUD on every login. The gamepad action bar doesn’t show up in edit mode. Toggling any action bar on or off makes the rogue action bar disappear but does not bring back the gamepad action bar. A relog somehow makes it come back but without saved compac setting.
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