 This article is a review of LiquidWeb as a hosting company, with whom I had a dedicated server for five months, and am now using one of their cloud servers. Today I’m covering how awesome Liquidweb are, detailed proof on how I can say that honestly, why I recommend a fully managed service if you’re not a Linux geek and some advice on CPU issues on shared hosts. This is a detailed review, based on personal experience, and includes August 19th, 2010 | Leave a comment |
 From: Site news |  Tags: dedicated server, review, VPS, web host 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 the Curse client. Name plate mods help you know up who you have threat on, and who you’ve lost, and should be designed to reduce visual clutter. TidyPlates has modes which are tuned to tank, dps or pvp usage, and I found the tank settings ideal. It’s also lightweight, January 7th, 2010 | 8 comments |
From: Addons | Tags: addon, name plates, review, threat, tidyplates 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 you use. It can learn boss’ abilities (make sure you turn this on; it’s off by default). This gives you their spells (with tooltips), in a handy notebook, into which you can also write your own tips and reminders. Includes simple written strategies for all the older bosses, too, January 7th, 2010 | 2 comments |
From: Addons | Tags: addon, boss notes, heroics, raid, raid leader, review, strategy 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 point out that in a prior patch the author Reynard added a few nice features. I particularly like his time-to-live calculation which even factor in expertise/parry-haste, which will be interesting for everyone including dual-wield tanks. Druids will enjoy seeing a figure for savage defence uptime, too. I September 24th, 2009 | One comment |
From: Addons | Tags: addon, avoidance, dual wield, dw, review, stats, tank, tanktotals 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 your own. These can be broadcast to a channel you choose.
Another example of what a warlock might put in a personal note for a boss:
It also knows and learns the abilities that boss’ cast, so you build up a reference September 14th, 2009 | One comment |
From: Addons | Tags: addon, heroics, raid, raid leader, review, strategy 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 seem to use the built-in action bars in a similar way, so the spell-assignments were all transferred. All I had to do was position them where I wanted and disable a few which I don’t use (empty ones). Nearly all the keybindings had remained too, so just 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 I get in a few situations like Razorscale and Mimiron). What I like is it has a categorisation of addons and set of recommendations within each. You can save a lot of time by starting your search at Vranx, rather than google/curse/wowinterface. It’ll give you a short-list. 3.2: it Loot is a huge topic. Do not think “I raid, therefore I DKP”. A loot system is a solution. To take your guild in the direction you intend, firstly define the problem you’re solving: is it to minimise drama, to reward attendence, to help decide who has more right to loot than another? What are the weightings you should apply to the choice of loot system? I value simplicity of admin very highly. A bad loot system implementation can June 12th, 2009 | Leave a comment |
From: Guild management, Raid leadership in general | Tags: dkp, loot, loot systems, review Having a raid leader or officer watch the debuffs on a boss can be a good idea. Back in the old days of 40-man raiding, debuff management was even more important that now. I haven’t used a debuff monitoring addon for a while. Now, to move into hard modes, I’d like to improve and monitor our dps so will start using one. The point is to have an at-a-glance review of which debuffs are missing, more so than what June 8th, 2009 | Leave a comment |
From: Observe, orient, decide, act | Tags: addon, debuff, raid leader, review This morning I came across RaidBuffStatus. Update: I’ve since raid tested it and highly recommend this addon for raid leaders. It provides intelligent raid buff checking prior to the pull, is talent-spec aware, has a real-time visual window of tank health/healer mana/dead healers/ missing buffs and (icing on the cake) has tank taunt warnings.
RaidBuffStatus also has an information video here, developed by a Finnish player (cool accent). I like how seriously the author June 7th, 2009 | 2 comments |
From: Observe, orient, decide, act | Tags: addon, buffs, player, review, tank, taunt Wow. You must check this out. Graphical and detailed combat log analysis. details from world of logs analysis That’s a sample from my combat log on the free service from worldoflogs.com. To interpret: I was MT on Kologarn and Freya, Aleona MT the rest. It’s a partial log (forgot to turn on for Lev & XT) from U-10 last night. Upload your own reports, it’s free or browse other guilds already-uploaded logs to check it out more. Impressive, |
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