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Master Blogging and Altitis Birthsday
So after a significant slowdown to my posting activities, this is my 300th post on Altitis. Incidentally, the blog is also 1 year (and 10 days) old now. Continue reading
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Tagged Altitis, Armory, benchmarking, Combat Log, CowTip, Crawler, Defense, FFXI, Mage, Parrot, phpBB3, PvE, Raiding, Review, Talent Trees, Warrior, wotlk, wowdb
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Quick Notes
Just 1-2 quick things: Continue reading
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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
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Tagged Addons, benchmarking, Damage Meters, Patch, Recount, Review, Violation, WWS
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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
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Addons, benchmarking, Damage Meters, Druid, Healing, Paladin, Priest, Shaman
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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 … Continue reading
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.
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