Speaking of Item Tooltips, a Look at WoWDigger

Over the current wowdb popularity, I neglected to look at the other non-Affinity wow item database, wowdigger. And they also happen to offer item tooltip syndication, and apparently do even up the ante in terms of provided functionality.

Guild Forums, First Look at phpBB3

The guild website I’m hosting hasn’t had a proper template refresh for over a year now, and revamping that one is next on my todo list. I am running it under the phpBB Plus package based on phpBB2. In the meantime, phpBB3 has been released, and it has a couple of very interesting features making it worth sandboxing for a while.

Damage Meters Benchmarking: Recount Maintainer Feedback

Elsia, the current maintainer of the benchmarked Recount, took the time to post extensive feedback both on general accuracy considerations and on the pet damage discrepancies

AddOns in Review: Damage Meters Benchmark III, solo Warlock

This will be a lot shorter than the other benchmarks as I wanted to verify the low-level hunter results. I tested a level 60 lock with lolguard in HFP for a while, all tested meters are consistent with each other and match WWS, with the exception of DamageMeters, which simply cannot account for the felguard’s [...]

AddOns in Review: Damage Meters Benchmark II, solo Hunter

As we saw in the previous benchmark in our series, the surveyed Damage Meters get level 70 character solo play right. Before that one I ran a test series with my level 13 hunter, though, and the picture starts getting differentiated.
Here is the summary table:

The black squares indicate where I forgot to screenshot the data [...]

My Damage Meters says Other Healers are Slackers

Convergence. While not directly related to my benchmarking exercise, I read a forum post wherein a paladin states that in his Kara run, his meters show him doing up to 70% of the healing when running with a resto shaman and resto druid. He asks why the others are such slackers and what he should [...]

AddOns in Review: Damage Meters Benchmark I, solo

To begin this series, a nice surprise, in the sense that every benchmarked AddOn behaves properly for pure solo play.
The benchmark was run on my protection pallie, in ShadowMoon Valley, the ruins of Karabor, for some AoE grinding. I did 7 pulls totaling about 65 mobs, and while holy shield and consecration were always [...]

AddOns in Review: Introducing Damage Meters Benchmarking Series

We all know the stereotypes, but how much of it is true? While patch 2.4 should bring a lot of goodness for all damage recorders, I started wondering just how accurate in-game damage meters are, in the current state.

How to Improve your Account Security

As you will have noticed, there’s a widespread account hacking activity going on at the moment, and many people, me included, aren’t exactly happy about the customer service options currently provided by Blizzard.
However, to be perfectly clear about one thing, keeping your PC secure isn’t anybody but your own business. And as this story from [...]

Google Polymorph Focus

Reviewing search terms used to reach you is always amusing. Now why I don’t have any leave-children-behind searches to puzzle about, the above search term still stands out.
I had posted a needlessly complicated Polymorph (Sheep) Macro before as a template for generic CC spells. Here’s a shorter version:
#showtooltip
/focus [target=focus, nodead, harm] focus; [harm][target=mouseover, harm][target=noexists] [...]

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