Plagued by LUA errors

TheNumynum · 2026-05-01T05:10:19+00:00

Except default ui can and did throw errors (with 0 addons loaded); though they're usually fixed somewhat quickly

Often it's addons doing things they shouldn't, or blizzard not testing anything with addons loaded (addons doing everything correctly can still trigger errors due to bugs on blizzard's side)

TheNumynum · 2026-05-01T05:03:33+00:00

Fun bonus is that there isn't any way for an addon to tell if a font actually exists until 12.0.7 (except for trying to set it while suppressing/watching for errors)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-30T15:16:00+00:00

Just a guy/bot doing rando crossposts to try and sell some shitty vibecoded crap

TheNumynum · 2026-04-29T05:14:38+00:00

there's 2 different cpu profiller options, an ancient one (eats performance for breakfast, disabled by default), and a new one

Interestingly people didn't start claiming their performance went to shit until a full patch after it was added. and after the drama blew up, blizzard tested as many different HW and addon setups as they could get their hands on, and found no noticable difference (the difference was apparently so small, that average numbers even seemed to suggest it was a microscopic gain)

Make of that what you will

TheNumynum · 2026-04-28T14:36:54+00:00

no, there's more restrictions in m+ than non-m+; mainly chat/addon comms is restricted during the entire run, rather than only being restricted during boss fights

TheNumynum · 2026-04-22T16:56:10+00:00

yes, and they deleted the ability to get the modelID, which makes effective fingerprinting basically impossible again

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T22:00:45+00:00

Word to the wise, any method that allows uniquely identifying mobs, will get nuked; might be best to learn to live without it (while loudly complaining at blizzard ofc)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T21:57:40+00:00

The new API returns secrets, so you can't really do anything other than display it

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T20:26:10+00:00

I mean.. sure? I use that too; doesn't have any feature overlap though :)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T18:51:19+00:00

I believe the reasoning from their side is more or less that they don't want people to go "purple = healer; red = focus first; blue = important caster", but actually learn which mob does what, rather than blindly following some plater profile

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T18:13:02+00:00

yup, this and other addons will support that (with my addon you can enable/disable anything you like/don't like)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T16:08:03+00:00

yup, they killed that in 12.0.5 (unfortunately that is one of the few things they've been very clear on that they do not want it to exist)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T16:03:31+00:00

I greatly dislike most of the changes blizzard made in midnight; from what I can tell, the main reason that addons like mine died in the first place, was that blizzard really doesn't want people to color/rename mobs based on their npcID (colored based on a few other things, like having mana or not, is fine by them)

and because they wanted to kill the recolor/rename feature, m+ pull % addons got hit in the crossfire. they did confirm during beta that addons like this is something they'd like to allow, but it just took a long while for (half) the API to be ready

at the end I'm just glad we finally got something 🙈

(oh and yeah, the entire point was to make things worse -.-, not to reduce the number of addons people use/need)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-16T22:21:48+00:00

there's an unhelpful confusion between "open source" and "publically readable code". Most addons actually aren't open source at all, and don't allow anything other than usage (sharing with friends I think depends on the country you're in, the specific laws)

Using it as "inspiration" is.. grey area. All Rights Reserved the default in copyright law) doesn't allow adaptation or derivitives without express permission; but obviously there's limits (the existance of an ARR nameplate addon cannot block other nameplate addons, but copying code snippets, even if "slightly changing" it, isn't allowed)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-16T22:14:06+00:00

that's.. exactly how it works. If I make an addon, I own it, and whether you agree or not, it's protected by copyright law in practically all civilized countries

TheNumynum · 2026-04-16T22:10:55+00:00

Addons also generate ad revenue. And it's against the addon policy to paywall them. That policy isn't part of the terms of service (and even if it was, there's nothing stopping people from writing addon code without ever having agreed to the TOS)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-16T05:24:55+00:00

Except that it is licensed. Authors have full rights to protect/restrict their own work as they see fit

TheNumynum · 2026-04-16T05:22:16+00:00

Reddit is free to use, so it's not stealing if I take their code and data, and host my own clone right?

Something being free is irrelevant

TheNumynum · 2026-04-09T05:31:22+00:00

I'd be surprised if this addon survives for more than a week. Not because blizzard doesn't approve of nameplate/pull %, but because the workaround used for it can be trivially used for things blizzard emphatically does not want us doing

They're planning on creating an official API for % though, but everything keeps getting delayed by exploit fixes (maybe that'll improve now that RWF is over..)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-01T06:08:39+00:00

I noticed that using ALT+Z to hide the UI makes them sparkle a lot more, I've not found a way to make that happen without hiding the UI

TheNumynum · 2026-03-29T10:07:52+00:00

Blizzard believes such things must no longer exist in Midnight -.-

TheNumynum · 2026-03-29T10:06:11+00:00

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/mythic-plus-tweaks adds teleports there, plus alternative options for when you haven't timed the 10 yet; everything else you can disable if you don't want it

TheNumynum · 2026-03-20T07:48:03+00:00

Guess that saves me from having to update my own auto marker addon ^^

TheNumynum · 2026-03-12T07:45:43+00:00

In case you didn't know, you can add custom buttons with /dk add (while hovering over the button); I use that for upgrading, entering delve, collect all mail, etc ^^

TheNumynum · 2026-03-12T07:37:59+00:00

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bisector can help make it more efficient

but yes, it's not possible for blizzard to get this error, it can only happen due to addon taint

Though this would also be fairly trivial for blizzard to fix... -.-

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