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.
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
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.
Addons in Review: AuraToChat
Remember that small but nifty AddOn ErrorMonster, which would redirect UI error messages like “spell not ready” and such to whatever frame you wanted it to?
Well, from the very same author, Rabbit, comes another little but oh-so-handy AddOn of a similar purpose, AuraToChat. Its function is summed up in its name: It allows you to [...]
Addons in Review: BuffProtectorGnome
As the name may suggest, we’re again reviewing yet another one of Rabbit’s small but invaluable Addons, BuffProtectorGnome.
As the author himself describes it, have you ever right-clicked on the wrong buff and realized, too late, that you just wasted a flask or elixir with 58 minutes left?
Well, Rabbit has, and I have, and I suspect [...]
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