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Harvey Randall

WoW devs plan to 'whitelist' spells for use in combat mods and addons, and while it looks like Blizzard's going soft, I'm not sure that's the whole picture

Xal'atath, the central villain of The War Within, holds the Dark Heart close to her chest and delivers a smirk that may slay even the mightiest champion.

World of Warcraft, as you might've heard, is taking combat mods (addons) to task—the philosophy being that combat addons shouldn't provide a competitive advantage in WoW anymore. That means no more WeakAuras, no more programmable boss-fight mechanics, and no more addons that can straight-up if>then entire parts of your class for you.

Well. Kinda. In recent beta builds, Blizzard has been loosening up some of these restrictions for select spells—or "whitelisting" them, as Blizzard puts it. That's per a dev post to the WoWUIDev Discord, shared here by WoWhead.

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