Comments on: AddOns in Review: Damage Meters Benchmark I, solo

By: Gwaendar

Gwaendar — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:43:25 +0000

Thank you for clarifying. I edited the post accordingly.

By: Roartindon

Roartindon — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:11:28 +0000

Assessment has options to change just about any bit of the UI.

Stop the rounding by modifying the tags – go to Display Sets and change the text tag (remove the “:Short” portion)

Font sizes are changed under window options.

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By: Damage Meters Benchmarking: solo with pet | Altitis

Damage Meters Benchmarking: solo with pet | Altitis — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:19:32 +0000

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By: Gwaendar

Gwaendar — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:31:07 +0000

@Karthis – exactly. Loggerhead takes care of the combat log for me.

@NoName – Indeed. Also worth pointing out is that I use no-ext versions of any Ace addons, which of course gets rid of a lot of bloat I’d have otherwise.
On the other hand, only SW Stats and DamageMeters are non-Ace and they aren’t the worst offenders in terms of memory footprint.

Nitpicking, Omen is a frontend for ThreatLib, so it gets access to the exact same information as violation does. Point is moot, though, since there’s little surprise who has aggro in pure solo play

By: NoName

NoName — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:15:32 +0000

I like this concept very well, but it should be noted that several of the addons use Ace and share a common library with other addons that you have loaded (notably PerformanceFu for one). That means the incremental memory usage is less for an Ace user like yourself compared to a non-Ace user.

One other thing to note is whether or not the addon also includes a “threat meter” or any type. I know Violation includes ThreatLib and has a threat meter, so there is no need for an additional addon for that feature (and I believe it also talks to Omen and KT).

By: Karthis

Karthis — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:51:32 +0000

Keep ‘em coming! =)

I assume that you’ll be using an addon like Loggerhead to increase/manage your logging range for WWS in the group tests?

By: Galoheart

Galoheart — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:47:19 +0000

Nice post. Looking forward to the other.

I currently use Recount for DMG meter and for all its other information function which i find useful. In the beginning i think i went from Damage Meters > SW Stats > Recount.

By: Solidstate

Solidstate — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:30:41 +0000

Looking forward to additional posts, especially group accuracy. I’ve always assumed DamageMeters, if I’m close enough to other people or synced to their DamageMeters, is accurate or close to it, now I guess I’ll get to see if that assumption is true

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