Just wondering if anyone else is dreading the UI changes?
While they are great for people who want to use the standard UI, such large changes are going to mean that a lot of addons may take a couple of weeks to get updated and may encounter random bugs for months.
Not to mention you will probably be unable to import old profiles from packages like ElvUI meaning its going to take days to set things up the way I have them now.
Support your favorite addon developers so they are more likely to get on the PTR and update their code as needed.
Add-on creators will begin working on updates as soon as they are in beta or on PTR. The larger concern is if they will still be playing the game to create updates.
I think we’ll see most of the big addons ready for release. Some of the lesser used might take a bit longer, but that’s happened before. I assume Blizz gives those folks access to whatever they need to make updates before launch.
Most the big mod packs will be updated thru the PTR.
With the PTR up this early addon makers can use it to update and test their addons, so I would expect actual pre-patch and launch to go pretty smoothly as far as addons are concerned.
theyre not getting rid of external addons theyre just adding official options.
it’ll be just like any other xpack when it comes to addons i think. not better, not worse.
Oh I get that, more worried about the fact that the core UI hasn’t been completed and there are only three months for addon devs to fix any issues or having to build from the ground up (not sure how big these changes actually are for devs.)
On the client side I think its going to suck. The last time I worked with my addons it too almost 70 hours to finish getting them just right.
I also have a couple of custom addon that I made that I’m not looking forward to updating. I’m hoping that they just work.
With the new player frame they just added, I might just ditch Z-Perl.
Nope love’em 
I experience that now 
The “good” addons, the big ones like Elvui, BigWigs, DBM, WeakAuras, TSM, and such aren’t written by potato brains they are written by pretty smart people so addons like that aren’t going to be hobbled for weeks.
“I’ve never coded before, here’s my first addon” might though lol.
No it will be worse
Blizz is updating the interface options code and I’d be willing to bet most addons that have options are going to blow up
This is what I’m afraid of.
In a normal expansion release it might be a couple of days or even up to a week if its not one of the larger addons. With a complete overhaul though, whew I don’t even want to imagine having to build something like ElvUI from the ground up again.
And than they would still need time and testers to sort out any bugs. I can see it being done in 3 months but I don’t know how many addon devs get beta keys or when they will even finish with the UI changes.
And anyone who writes extensions would need the core already written.
You can even used saved variables from retail in setting up classic. I doubt it’ll be something that messes with ELVUI saves.
Hop on the PTR and check, they put all the UI and talent changes on there yesterday.
oh dang, 10.0 is on PTR. Are talent changes up there yet?
They’re calling what they put up yesterday “pre-patch”, but so far it’s just the UI and Talent changes.
mostly what I cared for are talent changes. Thanks for heads up though, gonna have to look into it after bg
Elvui doesn’t have to worry about the options changes because Elvui uses a custom interface for their options. The options changes will only affect addons that use the Esc->Interface->Addons Tab options.
The prepatch is on PTR now so everyone has access to anything UI related. Though PTR may be a bit behind beta the majority is still there.
Also, if you want you can go talk with them about it in their Discord
Not trying to be insulting here but is this your first expansion ?
Me I’ve been around the wow community since 2007. I’ve seen more then 1 wow expansion absolutely break addons.
Addons are always going to break day 1 of an expansion. It’s how your strategize to get past it that matters. Maybe you’ll be without one of your favourite addons for a week or so. Maybe you’ll fix it with a code snippet you found on the comments page of an addon. Maybe you’ll replace a non working addon with something else.
Do what I do for every expansion (albeit in a slightly modified form for each expansion)
Also I’m on two discord servers for Addon authors. They’ve already got channels up for Dragonflight addons. There’s people who’ll pull the new DF Lua API apart and work out how it works. There’s been a beta program for addon authors since day 1 of DF beta. There’s addon authors already working on DF updates.
Stop worrying bro.
Nah not dreading it so much. It should be fine.