World of Warcraft developer Blizzard is set to loosen its stance on combat-related AddOns, allowing some WeakAura-style mods to function again in the game's next major content patch. This marks a shift from the more combative approach the studio had recently taken towards these popular community-made tools, which many players use to track cooldowns, buffs and other combat information during raids and dungeons.

The move suggests a softening of the previously tense relationship between Blizzard and the WoW AddOn community, many of whom rely on tools like WeakAuras to manage complex encounters. Full details of which specific mod functions will be permitted, and how this fits into the wider AddOn policy, were not available from the source material provided.