Gaming: Wow's Classes Were Pruned For Midnight Because Many Were 'built In...

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World of Warcraft recently embarked on the massive undertaking of redesigning all of its many specialisations to work without the assistance of UI mods (addons) for Midnight—mods which previously automated a ton of the complexity of its classes.

As an outlaw rogue, for instance, I had an addon which told me when I should cast Roll the Bones, because the decision making of that choice involved keeping track of several separate, randomly-generated buffs that each did something completely different from the other.

It was a nightmare of a priority system, but computers are very good at priority systems. Even after two expansions with the spec, I could not have told you what my Roll the Bones buffs do. I heard the funny noise from my addon, pushed a button, and went back to paying attention to the parts of the spec I liked.

Source: PC Gamer