The WoW community has been buzzing with concerns about what the Midnight expansion means for addons, nameplates, and custom UIs. This week, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas directly addressed those fears in a detailed reply on Reddit — and the message is clear:
👉 Your custom UI will continue to work in Midnight.
While Blizzard is refining and modernizing the base UI, the goal is not to replace addons or force players to abandon years of personalization.
Blizzard’s Vision for Addons in Midnight
Here are the key takeaways from Ion’s comment:
- Base UI improvements are ongoing, especially around nameplates, unit frames, and raid frames. Players in beta will see features arrive earlier than usual so Blizzard can gather feedback faster.
- The goal is not to remove addons but to reduce the feeling that they are mandatory for basic gameplay clarity.
- The recent “Addon Disarmament” changes are focused on reducing real-time combat logic advantages, not on blocking aesthetic or layout addons.
- Blizzard understands the power and flexibility of the addon ecosystem — and their UI team is actively working with addon devs to re-enable a wide range of cosmetic addons for Midnight.
- Custom UIs, themes, resource bars, textures, shapes, colors, layouts… all these will remain customizable as long as they don’t automate combat logic.
“If You Think the Default UI Is Ugly… That’s Fine.”
One standout quote from Ion summed it up perfectly:
“If you think the default UI is ugly, or you prefer your secondary resources displayed in a certain way, that’s entirely your prerogative — and we want as many addon options as possible to let you customize everything that isn’t real-time combat logic.”
So yes:
✔ Your custom unit frames? Safe.
✔ Your nameplate style? Safe.
✔ Your personal action bar setup? Safe.
✔ Your UI overhaul addon? Safe.
Midnight might refine the base experience, but addons remain a core part of WoW’s identity, and Blizzard intends to keep it that way.