Focus was in Vanilla - Please Fix the API

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You might be able to but that would be more work and no logical sense for them. Focus however already exists in the Retail API. If they wanted to make it more authentic to Vanilla, they’d allow us to define our own unit IDs. But alas, the security model prevents that because we’re not getting the genuine API.

The fact remains however, that the target unit ID didn’t exist in Vanilla, yet we’re getting that in Classic. The only way to avoid getting it is to disable all macros in Classic. Which is an even less authentic change.

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Focus unit ID wasn’t into the game until TBC

Blizzard made even more API “protected”…aka players cannot get to them.

Here’s a website where you can start reading

wowwiki(dot)fandom(dot)com/wiki/Patch_2.0.1/API_changes

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Which is the whole point of all of this. No Changes.

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Neither was the target unit ID. Or the pet unit ID. The entire macro conditional system was added at that point.

Funnily enough, there were no Unit IDs before TBC. Yet we still did the exact same functionality.

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Yes it was put in beacuse they took away the ability to create ids and didnt want to completely break the addons and macros that used created ids.

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While also limiting the exploitability of the script features. The title of the post is misleading and disingenuous. Focus ID wasn’t in vanilla and was deliberately not put in classic.

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It was being exploited in pvp and used for creating bots.

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Which is why Im not asking for the ability to create ids. Just the fixed version of that functionality, the focus id

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Petition them to make a BC server then

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We’re not asking for the old macro system. We’re getting the retail API.

The request is for a single user-selectable unit ID. You can call it whatever you like, but we had it in Vanilla, it was re-added to support the functionality in TBC, and Classic is the only version of WoW that doesn’t have the functionality.

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We had a Focus Addon for TBC on private servers… The API to make a focus addon should work at least in TBC. The only thing that doesn’t work in TBC even with addons is arena target 1 2 3. Blizzard fix this before you release TBC at least.

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Which they deliberately didn’t put in.

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Did we have that in vanilla? I think we didn’t. I am seeing no evidence that it was.

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Or accidentaly removed. Blizzard has not said anything about it. Its disingenuous of you to claim they left it our intentionaly when you have no proof

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We did. We actually had more than one…

That’s your problem.

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just requoting. for reference.

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You are correct sir, we had focus frame Addon for TBC servers but I didn’t have it for vanilla private servers.

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Considering that Focus ID is in current API and all the other ID’s are in classic but that one isn’t speaks for itself. Nothing about my statement is disingenuous. You just don’t want it to be true.

Or is blizzard just making another “mistake”.

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You can infact get the focus frame addon for vanilla private servers and could get it in vanilla. The id is named after the addon not the other way around.

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Not when there is no evidence that a single user-selectable unit Id was in vanilla.

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