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From FuBar to LDB: Writing Your Own AddOn Loader
In terms of menubar utilities, it appears I’m just a sheep following the lead of the enlighted Mr. Kestrel. It was after one of his posts that I moved from Titan Pannel to FuBar, and it was again after reading … Continue reading
HowTo: Debug your UI
Stranded in WoW 3.0.2 withtout working addons? Getting mad because you can’t exactly figure out what’s broken where? Many things actually work, but in order to get it fixed, a methodical approach works best. Here’s my method: Tools AddOn Control … Continue reading
A Plea to Ace & Curse: Bring Us NoLib AddOns ASAP
As many readers have been slowly realizing over the past 24 hours, the WoWAce community has gone through a massive change in the way they make addons available to the general public – ie. all of us end-users. The reason … Continue reading
Quick Notes
Just 1-2 quick things: Continue reading
Posted in Altitis, tools, warcraft toolbox
Tagged Addons, benchmarking, Blog, Damage Meters, Recap, Recount, SW Stats, Violation, WWS
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The Quest for Precise Damage Metering: Almost There
Numbers, numbers, numbers. That’s all Damage Meter addons are about. Getting those as close to what your server knows you have dealt is the big challenge, and the Eldorado promised by patch 2.4 is getting closer by the day. Continue reading
Posted in tools, warcraft toolbox
Tagged Addons, benchmarking, Damage Meters, Patch, Recount, Review, Violation, WWS
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Damage Meters in Patch 2.4, One Week Later
This is just a very short round-up of where the different damage meters are today in terms of parch 2.4 compatibility, not an in-depth benchmark. Continue reading
Posted in tools
Tagged Addons, Assessment, Combat Text Scroller, Damage Meters, Recap, Recount, Review, SW Stats, Violation
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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 Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
