New datamined WoW UI features: Official WeakAuras and addons?
New WoW UI datamined from 11.1 PTR servers. This new UI is very similar to the commonly used Weak Auras addon. Read the article to learn more!
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Key takeaways:
- Blizzard seems to work on an official alternative for addons based on datamined ”.lua” files.
- For now, we know about the future settings categories and cooldown navigation options.
- Blizzard hasn’t officially announced these new features.
Recently, Blizzard announced that WoW addon usage will become limited with the release of the 11.1 patch. Players were wondering if any official replacement for beloved and almost necessary addons would be added to the game. Now, players have found a new WoW UI that can be a sign of official WeakAuras features in the future. Here is everything we know so far.
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New WoW lua files datamined
Players found two specific files related to possible new official WoW UI WeakAuras in the upcoming patch 11.1. Here are some knowledge we can get from reading these codes:
- Right now, WoW’s new UI in Undermined will have some settings categories, such as: TrackedBuff, TrackerBar, Utility, and Essential.
- Some parts of datamined files’ codes also mention cooldowns navigation, such as: charges, spellID, linkedSpellIDs, selfAura, and hasAura.
If you want to take a look at the whole contents of the datamined files, here are full codes:
CooldownViewerConstantsDocumentation.lua
local CooldownViewerConstants =
{
Tables =
{
{
Name = “CooldownViewerCategory”,
Type = “Enumeration”,
NumValues = 4,
MinValue = 0,
MaxValue = 3,
Fields =
{
{ Name = “Essential”, Type = “CooldownViewerCategory”, EnumValue = 0 },
{ Name = “Utility”, Type = “CooldownViewerCategory”, EnumValue = 1 },
{ Name = “TrackedBuff”, Type = “CooldownViewerCategory”, EnumValue = 2 },
{ Name = “TrackedBar”, Type = “CooldownViewerCategory”, EnumValue = 3 },
},
},
{
Name = “CooldownViewerUIConstants”,
Type = “Constants”,
Values =
{
{ Name = “COOLDOWN_VIEWER_LINKED_SPELLS_SIZE”, Type = “number”, Value = 4 },
{ Name = “COOLDOWN_VIEWER_CATEGORY_SET_SIZE”, Type = “number”, Value = 16 },
},
},
},
};
APIDocumentation:AddDocumentationTable(CooldownViewerConstants);
CooldownViewerDocumentation.lua
local CooldownViewer =
{
Name = “CooldownViewer”,
Type = “System”,
Namespace = “C_CooldownViewer”,
Functions =
{
{
Name = “GetCooldownViewerCategorySet”,
Type = “Function”,
Arguments =
{
{ Name = “category”, Type = “CooldownViewerCategory”, Nilable = false },
},
Returns =
{
{ Name = “cooldownIDs”, Type = “table”, InnerType = “number”, Nilable = false },
},
},
{
Name = “GetCooldownViewerCooldownInfo”,
Type = “Function”,
MayReturnNothing = true,
Arguments =
{
{ Name = “cooldownID”, Type = “number”, Nilable = false },
},
Returns =
{
{ Name = “cooldownInfo”, Type = “CooldownViewerCooldown”, Nilable = false },
},
},
},
Events =
{
{
Name = “CooldownViewerTableHotfixed”,
Type = “Event”,
LiteralName = “COOLDOWN_VIEWER_TABLE_HOTFIXED”,
},
},
Tables =
{
{
Name = “CooldownViewerCooldown”,
Type = “Structure”,
Fields =
{
{ Name = “spellID”, Type = “number”, Nilable = false },
{ Name = “linkedSpellIDs”, Type = “table”, InnerType = “number”, Nilable = false },
{ Name = “selfAura”, Type = “bool”, Nilable = false },
{ Name = “hasAura”, Type = “bool”, Nilable = false },
{ Name = “charges”, Type = “bool”, Nilable = false },
},
},
},
};
APIDocumentation:AddDocumentationTable(CooldownViewer);
Community opinion on new official WoW WeakAuras UI
There is no univocal feedback from the community regarding these datamined new WoW UI features. Some people still insist that limiting addons usage can be a crucial failure in the current state of the game. However, many players are happy to see at least some work on Blizzard’s tries to give us an alternative. This topic is very ambiguous and will likely stay hot and thrilling until players can test new UI settings in World of Warcraft.
Final thoughts
Despite many players being almost terrified by news about Blizzard moving towards addons removal, we can see some work that can calm them down. The developers are indeed preparing something new and potentially positive new features. For example, new swirlies will be added with the release of Undermined, improving quality of life for many players. So, for now, we need to wait until we can test them after TWW Season 2 release date finally comes. And if you still haven’t done all the preparations before the next season, you can rely on WoW boost as an alternative.
What do you think about these possible new WoW official UI WeakAuras? Do you think the developers can compensate all addons we are used to? Let us know your opinion in the comments!
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