I may be wrong, but afaik none of the changes planned to "break" AVR will break any of the features currently in Carbonite.
Agreed. AVR is out because Blizz feels it draws on the 3D environment, Carb only reuses the existing minimap textures won zooming in on the map. No effect on the 3D world at all.
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