Team Weakauras
As you may have noticed during the RWF, some tools look suspiciously like WeakAuras, and we have received a few questions about this. So, let us try to answer the most common questions.
Is this allowed by us?WeakAuras is proudly an open source addon. This means anyone can take the WeakAuras' source code and modify it to suit their needs. The only requirement is that any derived version must also be open source. This process is called 'forking' in the open source world. This is a perfectly normal practice. We generally ask that forks do not use 'WeakAuras' in their name.
Is this allowed by Blizzard?As far as we can tell, RWF guilds are not exploiting anything through their use of WeakAuras.
Can I use similar tools?Yes you can. The
Northern Sky Raid Tools by Reloe contains many tools for the current raid. For example it already contains a memory game helper. It also contains a "WeakAura" for the dispel assignment. That WeakAura builds on a
WeakAuras fork, which you have to install manually. Note that the boss was nerfed from 8 dispels to 4.
Why aren't we releasing a similarly WeakAuras version?Because these boss mod auras are essentially custom auras that uses only trivial amounts of WeakAuras code.
In our opinion, the core part of WeakAuras is tracking your personal combat state, which is no longer possible with the current 'secret' design. Currently, the only way to customize the display of your personal combat state is by building on top of the CDM.
Even simple things such tracking individual buffs/debuffs are not possible. While there are still some use cases for WeakAuras that work, this core functionality of WeakAuras has been undermined by Blizzard.
Blizzard has recently revealed their plans for future API changes, which can be summarized as further restrictions. It remains very unlikely that WeakAuras will support Midnight.
