Please lord let me in the alpha

[Lazyeyez-lightbringer]

I have so much testing to do for my addon I need this

[Monza-windrunner]

Hah I feel this in my bones. At a minimum, I would love a dump of what APIs were nuked from orbit.

• Do we still have events like PLAYER_REGEN_ENABLED? UNIT_AURA?
• Do we still have basic aura queries like AuraUtil.FindAuraByName()?
• How about super duper basic stuff like UnitPower() / UnitPowerMax() / UnitHealth() / UnitHealthMax()?
• C_Spell.IsSpellUsable()?
• C_Spell.GetSpellCharges()?
• C_Spell.GetSpellCooldown()?

I guess I don’t know how “locked down” stuff will be in combat, but I gotta feel like there is going to be a riot if we can’t draw stuff in our mods based on simple stuff like “there’s 3 seconds left on your big CD” or “hey you must reapply MotW on yourself.”

SOMEONE LET ME INNNNN

[Elvenbane-veknilash (Elvenbane)]

https://github.com/Gethe/wow-ui-source/tree/beta
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Patch_12.0.0/API_changes

[Monza-windrunner]

Hmm, I read the wiki link and then dug around in the branch diffs, and I’m tentatively hopeful. I suspect things like UnitHealth() returning secret items are likely going to be when querying a target that is a dungeon/raid boss, which is fine. The diffs didn’t seem to add any secret protection on basic aura/CD querying so fingers crossed, I guess.

[Elvenbane-veknilash (Elvenbane)]

Day 1 Alpha UI and Addons Update

Immediately in this first day of testing, we’ve seen feedback on how currently, there’s a complete lockdown on the ability for addons to parse chat and addon-comms channels while in instances. We’re seeing it break addons that support loot councils, break timers, and other benign communications (e.g. sharing raid notes or M+ keystone information). We agree that this is starting out excessively broad, and we’re going to make changes to only apply the new logic while there is an active raid encou…

[Monza-windrunner]

@Monza-windrunner

The diffs didn’t seem to add any secret protection on basic aura/CD querying so fingers crossed, I guess.

I joined the WowUIDiscord and asked/checked, and it does. I think a lot of mods are DOA, and 12.0 prepatch is going to be a wild, wild day for people. It’s the end of an era. Blizzard is definitely throwing out the baby with the bathwater here.