A Terrible Workaround Solution for Tracking Buffs on Raid Frames in Midnight Pre-Patch

Posted 3 days ago by Squishei

We would advise against doing this without explicit knowledge of the systems involved. This video is a proof of concept and will likely be made into a full addon if nothing changes.What's the ProblemEchoFind the Echo symbolTemporal AnomalyWhat's the Solution (Base UI)There is no solution in the base UI. The Terrible Workaround

A way to track buff and filter buffs using colors.

However, it removes the icons of every ability that applies a buff onto your raid frames that you need to filter out.

We advise people not to do this without explicit knowledge of the systems involved as there may not be a way to undo this easily.remove and replace all the spell icons of abilities that apply a buff to a transparent iconThis will make the icons on your bars and the Cooldown Manager completely transparentRaid Frame Example 1Dream BreathEchoRaid Frame Example 2Echo

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Comment by corrupt733Classic Blizzard LComment by KarthusTeemoDONT FORGET BTW - WHEN THINGS BREAK NOW YOU DONT GET TO HAVE IT FIXED IN A FEW HOURS BY ADDON DEVS - YOU ARE BEHOLDEN TO THE MERCY OF BLIZZARD DEVS DOING IT WHENEVER THEY FEEL LIKE.

Is everyone still loving these changes? Are you happy that people can't customize their UIs anymore? Do you feel like youre now gonna get invited to that keystone group or get cutting edge?Comment by undacant wait to see what random bull$%^& RWF guilds will break to make the game somewhat playable cause holy &*!@ its the worst wow iteration ever. cant also wait to see LFR timmies telling us that they can heal their heroic dungeon and LFR raid just fine :-)Comment by gringoboy70Enjoy the extended queues due to healers not wanting to play a game UI straight from the early 2000's.Comment by CreepaCreepnThanks to these new UI and Addon changes, I finally got CE! I am so glad blizzard finally put the foot down on those CHEATERS.Comment by SpacemanjaneI'm confused. I installed Clique and I'm not having any issues. Healing +15 keys with ease. If anything, I'm seeing more than I normally did with player damage reduction abilities showing up on my frames. I was one of those people that thought this was going to crash and burn but it's a lot better than I expected. I main healers and so far, so good.Comment by MiauMiauYeah removing baseline addon functions is looking great, isn't it?Comment by PandaabearDONT FORGET BTW - WHEN THINGS BREAK NOW YOU DONT GET TO HAVE IT FIXED IN A FEW HOURS BY ADDON DEVS - YOU ARE BEHOLDEN TO THE MERCY OF BLIZZARD DEVS DOING IT WHENEVER THEY FEEL LIKE.

Is everyone still loving these changes? Are you happy that people can't customize their UIs anymore? Do you feel like youre now gonna get invited to that keystone group or get cutting edge?I'm confused. I installed Clique and I'm not having any issues. Healing +15 keys with ease. If anything, I'm seeing more than I normally did with player damage reduction abilities showing up on my frames. I was one of those people that thought this was going to crash and burn but it's a lot better than I expected. I main healers and so far, so good.Comment by PriestVirikasHow bad do you want the interface to be?
YES!Comment by BelkynThis is really a terrible workaround.

It has being really hard to adapt to the default grid and as a Cell user I'm hoping that their midnight solution will at least have a more "skin-able" way to increase visuals. But this solution from the post seems like a desperate way to fix the UI and in the process is making it much worse.Comment by Zly1yeah, unbelievable that we have to do stupid stuff like this to end up with a working uiComment by xb3auDebuffs on player frames also seem to prevent healing unless your cursor is in just the right position over the player frame. And the tooltips pop up during combat. I mean, you'd think they play their own game.Comment by KenjiT28A real solution would be to return it back to the orginal format and then make things customizeable from there.Comment by CashmereWizardDONT FORGET BTW - WHEN THINGS BREAK NOW YOU DONT GET TO HAVE IT FIXED IN A FEW HOURS BY ADDON DEVS - YOU ARE BEHOLDEN TO THE MERCY OF BLIZZARD DEVS DOING IT WHENEVER THEY FEEL LIKE.

Is everyone still loving these changes? Are you happy that people can't customize their UIs anymore? Do you feel like youre now gonna get invited to that keystone group or get cutting edge?Comment by JinxedSo now replace some unused Classic Icons with the Spell Icons and load those Fake Icons as a Macro Icon to have a Icon in you Bar kekComment by BelkynDONT FORGET BTW - WHEN THINGS BREAK NOW YOU DONT GET TO HAVE IT FIXED IN A FEW HOURS BY ADDON DEVS - YOU ARE BEHOLDEN TO THE MERCY OF BLIZZARD DEVS DOING IT WHENEVER THEY FEEL LIKE.

Is everyone still loving these changes? Are you happy that people can't customize their UIs anymore? Do you feel like youre now gonna get invited to that keystone group or get cutting edge?Comment by FlynI'm confused. I installed Clique and I'm not having any issues. Healing +15 keys with ease. If anything, I'm seeing more than I normally did with player damage reduction abilities showing up on my frames. I was one of those people that thought this was going to crash and burn but it's a lot better than I expected. I main healers and so far, so good.Thanks to these new UI and Addon changes, I finally got CE! I am so glad blizzard finally put the foot down on those CHEATERS.Comment by OutdatedDONT FORGET BTW - WHEN THINGS BREAK NOW YOU DONT GET TO HAVE IT FIXED IN A FEW HOURS BY ADDON DEVS - YOU ARE BEHOLDEN TO THE MERCY OF BLIZZARD DEVS DOING IT WHENEVER THEY FEEL LIKE.

Is everyone still loving these changes? Are you happy that people can't customize their UIs anymore? Do you feel like youre now gonna get invited to that keystone group or get cutting edge?Comment by ValestriIt's not like people are gonna play healer, without some sort of Healbot or whatever..?
I know I'm not.Comment by Miral007People are going about this addon change the wrong way. Don't try to hack in old functionality. Give Blizzard what they want. Play with their UI. Let them see the effect that has on players' ability, progression, and the game's retention.

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