Edit Mode & New Nameplate Options Coming to Classic Era, Season of Discovery, & Hardcore

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Upcoming WoW Classic Patch 1.15.9 – Week of July 19

Similar to this week’s Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary patch, the WoW Classic games (Classic Era, Season of Discovery, Hardcore) will receive a similar patch with the start of weekly regional maintenance the week of July 19. As with the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary patch, this patch will bring in Edit Mode and changes to players’ nameplates and raid frames to the WoW Classic games.

Some third-party addons may experience errors until they are updated by their authors. As all versions of World of Warcraft share most of their UI code, the addon API in 1.15.9 very closely matches the addon API from 2.5.6. For addon authors, we encourage you to use 2.5.6 as an environment for updating addons to be compatible with 1.15.9.

We will continue to refine our updates in the future, so that we’re providing additional options for players to modify settings wherever possible.

Thank you, as always, for your passion and feedback.

Comment by West206Damn the classic community is gonna throw a fit again aren't they? Like when they added polearms to druidsComment by EyevouBlizzard can't help themselves from making changes. Even when they promise no changes.Comment by KrognacNooooo! It’s gonna make the Raid Frames stack ugly like it does now in TBC!Comment by GravitizedWelcome to the bricks building classic + aka SOD 2.0Comment by Shinyman92Blizzard can't help themselves from making changes. Even when they promise no changes.Comment by stummyzedit mode is ^&*!ing ugly no capComment by JaraxinTL;DR: PLEASE NO, PLEASE DON'T DO THIS
It is very difficult to articulate just how much I despise the new UI; but I feel alone in this viewpoint and I must voice my opinion.
The New Nameplates are slightly different. Not enough to be a different thing entirely, but too much to be the WoW I know and love. It is an uncanny valley, at the bottom of which lies nausea and annoyance.
The same thing applies to the very slightly different font, font sizes, and gold icons in the vendor price of items: just different enough to be nauseating and uncomfortable.
But the most heinous thing? Hidden action bars.
If there is an action slot that I know is there, but cannot be seen, it irks me greatly, like an itch that cannot be scratched. I MUST play with "always show action bars" enabled. Anniversary and Classic progression both lack this option. (Don't even get me STARTED on retail, it is a different game puppeteering the shriveled husk of the game I grew up playing)
I used to joyfully collect achievements and raid in MoP, but when they changed the UI in Siege of Orgrimmar; I logged in, flew to the Timeless Isle, looked in horror at all the dizzyingly ugly nameplates, and logged out. I have not played MoP since.
Vanilla (and vanilla-esque) servers were the last bastion of the old stock UI, and now they too, will be inevitably perverted and corrupted.
Note: No, I don't play with addons to change the UI, and the only reason I have ever installed any is to mimic the look and feel of the stock UI. I have searched, but nothing I've tried has been able to purely emulate the stock UI. If you know of any that you believe can do such a thing, let me know. I'd be happy to try.Comment by JaraxinBlizzard can't help themselves from making changes. Even when they promise no changes.Comment by MadaucHow about we don't do that?Comment by Shinyman92TL;DR: PLEASE NO, PLEASE DON'T DO THIS
It is very difficult to articulate just how much I despise the new UI; but I feel alone in this viewpoint and I must voice my opinion.
The New Nameplates are slightly different. Not enough to be a different thing entirely, but too much to be the WoW I know and love. It is an uncanny valley, at the bottom of which lies nausea and annoyance.
The same thing applies to the very slightly different font, font sizes, and gold icons in the vendor price of items: just different enough to be nauseating and uncomfortable.
But the most heinous thing? Hidden action bars.
If there is an action slot that I know is there, but cannot be seen, it irks me greatly, like an itch that cannot be scratched. I MUST play with "always show action bars" enabled. Anniversary and Classic progression both lack this option. (Don't even get me STARTED on retail, it is a different game puppeteering the shriveled husk of the game I grew up playing)
I used to joyfully collect achievements and raid in MoP, but when they changed the UI in Siege of Orgrimmar; I logged in, flew to the Timeless Isle, looked in horror at all the dizzyingly ugly nameplates, and logged out. I have not played MoP since.
Vanilla (and vanilla-esque) servers were the last bastion of the old stock UI, and now they too, will be inevitably perverted and corrupted.
Note: No, I don't play with addons to change the UI, and the only reason I have ever installed any is to mimic the look and feel of the stock UI. I have searched, but nothing I've tried has been able to purely emulate the stock UI. If you know of any that you believe can do such a thing, let me know. I'd be happy to try.

I think the hell not. I retch at the new UI. The old nameplates and action bars are special to me. If you don't like them or if if you don't care either way, play the half-dozen game versions that have the different UI. As for me, I'm off to lament the loss of the pristine and delightful action bars and nameplates I once knew.Comment by LootFeverTime for Addonpocalypse Classic :PComment by bannyvaderBlizzard can't help themselves from making changes. Even when they promise no changes.Comment by OMEGAkekWho thought this patch will be "new SoD phase", ye ofc xDDDComment by owenmeredithedit mode is ^&*!ing ugly no capComment by Adrenaliin👏 Great! 💯Comment by TessellaTL;DR: PLEASE NO, PLEASE DON'T DO THIS
It is very difficult to articulate just how much I despise the new UI; but I feel alone in this viewpoint and I must voice my opinion.
The New Nameplates are slightly different. Not enough to be a different thing entirely, but too much to be the WoW I know and love. It is an uncanny valley, at the bottom of which lies nausea and annoyance.
The same thing applies to the very slightly different font, font sizes, and gold icons in the vendor price of items: just different enough to be nauseating and uncomfortable.
But the most heinous thing? Hidden action bars.
If there is an action slot that I know is there, but cannot be seen, it irks me greatly, like an itch that cannot be scratched. I MUST play with "always show action bars" enabled. Anniversary and Classic progression both lack this option. (Don't even get me STARTED on retail, it is a different game puppeteering the shriveled husk of the game I grew up playing)
I used to joyfully collect achievements and raid in MoP, but when they changed the UI in Siege of Orgrimmar; I logged in, flew to the Timeless Isle, looked in horror at all the dizzyingly ugly nameplates, and logged out. I have not played MoP since.
Vanilla (and vanilla-esque) servers were the last bastion of the old stock UI, and now they too, will be inevitably perverted and corrupted.
Note: No, I don't play with addons to change the UI, and the only reason I have ever installed any is to mimic the look and feel of the stock UI. I have searched, but nothing I've tried has been able to purely emulate the stock UI. If you know of any that you believe can do such a thing, let me know. I'd be happy to try.

I think the hell not. I retch at the new UI. The old nameplates and action bars are special to me. If you don't like them or if if you don't care either way, play the half-dozen game versions that have the different UI. As for me, I'm off to lament the loss of the pristine and delightful action bars and nameplates I once knew.Comment by SwordoseGlad thank you Blizzard, i'm tired to being forced to use Dragonfligh UI addon.
Add Unit Frames and Minimap and we are good.Comment by yabodaboBlizzard can't help themselves from making changes. Even when they promise no changes.Comment by harulezTL;DR: PLEASE NO, PLEASE DON'T DO THIS
It is very difficult to articulate just how much I despise the new UI; but I feel alone in this viewpoint and I must voice my opinion.
The New Nameplates are slightly different. Not enough to be a different thing entirely, but too much to be the WoW I know and love. It is an uncanny valley, at the bottom of which lies nausea and annoyance.
The same thing applies to the very slightly different font, font sizes, and gold icons in the vendor price of items: just different enough to be nauseating and uncomfortable.
But the most heinous thing? Hidden action bars.
If there is an action slot that I know is there, but cannot be seen, it irks me greatly, like an itch that cannot be scratched. I MUST play with "always show action bars" enabled. Anniversary and Classic progression both lack this option. (Don't even get me STARTED on retail, it is a different game puppeteering the shriveled husk of the game I grew up playing)
I used to joyfully collect achievements and raid in MoP, but when they changed the UI in Siege of Orgrimmar; I logged in, flew to the Timeless Isle, looked in horror at all the dizzyingly ugly nameplates, and logged out. I have not played MoP since.
Vanilla (and vanilla-esque) servers were the last bastion of the old stock UI, and now they too, will be inevitably perverted and corrupted.
Note: No, I don't play with addons to change the UI, and the only reason I have ever installed any is to mimic the look and feel of the stock UI. I have searched, but nothing I've tried has been able to purely emulate the stock UI. If you know of any that you believe can do such a thing, let me know. I'd be happy to try.https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/classicuiComment by p00pyjoelOh no! Modern QOL changes coming to Classic! What shall we do? Heh, bring more so I can play again, the games a dumpster fire without them.