World of Warcraft The War Within is nearing it's end, and it feels surreal that this will be the last season before the Midnight DLC.
The brand-new expansion will be released sometime in 2026, and Blizzard has spoken deeply on how add-ons will be changing.
Here's what we know about the future of WeakAuras.
World of Warcraft Midnight: Are WeakAuras Gone? Answered
WoW Midnight has been fully revealed during Gamescom 2025, and it looks promising with the additions of Housing and the return to Quel'Thalas.
WeakAuras is an add-on tool that has enabled creators and developers to create some incredible tools in WoW. From custom UIs, to silly macros and so on, the possibilities are endless with WeakAuras.
However, with the new add-on changes coming in Midnight, and Blizzard being consistent with their wording; the team at WeakAuras will be sunsetting the program for Midnight's launch.
They've posted a full blog post here, and in short this is what they had to say:
"In short, it's because it seems the core value proposition of WeakAuras isn't compatible with the direction Blizzard is taking the game."
They also noted in regards to what Blizzard is exactly doing:
"Broadly, all of what you might call "combat state" is now inaccessible. An addon can instruct the game to display this information but is not free to compute any kind of fancy logic. Unfortunately, "empower laypeople to compute fancy logic about the combat state" is exactly what WeakAuras offers above all else. In Midnight, it seems that addons are reduced to being mere painter's kits.
We can change the color of a health bar, but we can't change the color based on if you're low health or not. We can display an icon with a spiral to show the remaining cooldown of an ability, but we can't apply a glow when the cooldown becomes ready to use. We can show the cast of your target, but we can't highlight important casts that need to be kicked. And the list goes on. If you are an addon author, check the WoWUIDev Discord for more info."
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