/played

It’s pretty mortifying to type /played.

If you want, log on your alts and check them too, or better yet: get the Altoholic addon which does it for you (amongst other [ more...]

Spamalyzer addon: can identify lag

A new addon Spamalyzer is available, which replaces the addon fubar_addonSpamFu.

Addons like GearScore (it’s badly coded) and Carbonite can spam the crap out of you when other people have them [ more...]

RankWatch: addon

RankWatch: this addon watches the rank of spells you or party members use. If it’s lower than the maximum available, it whispers them or mentions it to you. In levelling [ more...]

TidyPlates: name plates addon

I came across this today, TidyPlates, and it’s a great replacement to the periodically maintained, hard-to-configure Aloft. Note the version on Curse is older, so install it via wowinterface, not [ more...]

Boss Notes: useful addon

I have mentioned this great addon once before, Boss Notes (back in Sept 09). Those guilds going up against Putricide you might find it helpful. Saves alt-tabbing to whichever website [ more...]

Acclimation, analysis with world of logs

I’m in a discussion about world of logs at the moment. Forum writer ‘opdk’ started some analysis between frost and blood tanks, using WoL, with some side-by-side data he had. [ more...]

New TankTotals includes new effective health

Progression tanks, before the next wing is opened:

I recommend you get this new version of TankTotals, get familiar with it, give the author some feedback and then use it when [ more...]

TankTotals knows new effective health

TankTotals is now including the new effective health calculations in its Alpha version.

Read about it and the ongoing development, plus download link on maintankadin; second post on that page.

On personal [ more...]

Rawr.TankDK: guest post from the lead developer

I’m really delighted to have this guest post! Enjoy. – Gravity

Rawr.TankDK

Hello, I’m Shazear the current contributing developer for the Tank DK module in Rawr. For those who don’t know, Rawr is a [ more...]

Review: lowerping.com

Reduce your WoW latency. If you play on an Oceanic server, or on a US server from Europe, lowerping.com is a service which will reduce latency substantially. I have been [ more...]

SexyMap and GatherMate addons

I’m levelling mining (for the stamina bonus and an income). At 400 now on my reroll DK. I use the SexyMap addon combined with GatherMate to get a HUD when [ more...]

How to use Rawr, for dps

Runeforge Gossip have a good short article on how to use Rawr as a DPS DK. It can be a fairly confusing tool at first with all its options even [ more...]

Kahorie simulator for DKs

I’m going to have a single post which lets people download the XML settings files I’ve been using for Kahorie’s DK simulator, which might save some time or let you [ more...]

DK levelling in Unholy no-epidemic, plus a few addons

Found some great addons too, but first a snippet on levelling:

I ran the no-epidemic unholy dps specs in the simulator for L68, to see how it scales at low gear [ more...]

TankTotals addon updated

One of my must-have addons, being a stats geek, is TankTotals.

It just got updated to v3.310 and is now compatible with patch 3.22.

If you’re not already using TankTotals, let me [ more...]

Addon: Boss Notes

I like this addon, Boss Notes. Gives you an in-game notebook for each boss.

Comes with dot-point reminders of the key things for Ulduar bosses, for example, and you can enter [ more...]

TankPoints and TankTotals

In case you haven’t checked, the new TankPoints is out a few days ago. It works correctly with 3.2 mechanics, but you have to edit the TOC file (to 30200) [ more...]

Dominos and Bartender

Action-bar customisation addons

I just switched to Dominos from Bartender. What really surprised me is it only took about five minutes to reconfigure. I had been worried.

It was fast because they [ more...]

Improving latency: lowerping

This service, lowerping, has a fee (about AU$8 /month for US servers) but is both legit and effective. It uses routing, tunneling or VPN services to notably improve your latency [ more...]

Addon UI recommendation site: Vranx

A few times I’ve come across this site Vranx, most recently when looking for a replacement for Elkano Buffbars (I’m speculating  it’s causing this horrible drop to like 5 FPS [ more...]

Guild bank and inventory

I used to have an addon called Possessions which is no longer maintained, and finally decided to look for a replacement. I want to be able to search, by name, [ more...]

Raid leader: Matt's UI analysed

Matticus, a raid leader and prolific blogger, has written up his GUI which comments on the addons he uses. This is a great write-up because he’s a raid leader and [ more...]

wowraid.com: news site and raider recruitment

Teza, who set up worldofraids, with his colleague Csulok, have a new site. Teza told me WoR was founded back when Naxx40 was on PTR. Makes me feel old in [ more...]

Improving FPS: updated

My post on improving FPS has been really popular. I have new info, so have updated my original post (updates are something I do often, but I don’t normally write [ more...]

Improving FPS and latency

Higher FPS in a raid means higher DPS and better reaction-time to events.

FPS: here is a new addon TweakWoW which lets you tweak settings (including a reduction in Dalaran lag, [ more...]