12.0.1 Midnight Beta Test Development Notes

By Linxy
Published 2 months ago

Blue Posts are official communications from Blizzard Entertainment that provide updates, developer insights, and gameplay changes for World of Warcraft.

This post was originally published on the Battle.net forums by Linxy from the Community Manager team.

Additional notes for this week’s 12.0.1 beta build:

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

TEXT-TO-SPEECH UPDATES
- New Combat Audio Alert options were added:
  - Say Your Debuffs
    - Format
    - Voice
    - Min Duration
    - Volume
  - Debuff Self Alert (announces when a debuff is applied to the player that they can dispel)
TRANSMOGRIFICATION
- Added the ability to use arrow keys to navigate through appearance items.
NAMEPLATES
- Fixed an issue where raid marker icons were not showing in friendly player nameplates.
The background color of Raid Frames can now be customized with a color picker. This can be found in Options > Gameplay > Interface > Raid Frames > Background Color
Boss Abilities now have an Edit Mode option to be displayed as timer bars rather than a timeline.
Boss Abilities and Boss Warnings now have Edit Mode options to anchor tooltips to the cursor location.

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