#Supernatural and the work of @JensenAckles & @jarpad together with the rest of the cast has meant the world to me! So today I finally made that love for the series very much apperent, thank you @cw_spn
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Patch 12.0.5 launched April 21—let’s celebrate by giving away 1 Thunder-Ridged Elekk mount!
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Pringles are not the only ones giving out Thunder-Ridged Elekk!
12.0.5 is here on April 22nd, and we're giving away fancy elephants to the community.
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New Feature now available in MDT: Manage Focus Markers in your group! Setup Markers for you and your group and sync them! MDT manages a keybind or macro that you can use to set your focus and mark it.
Download MDT: https://t.co/w5NPNWZghR
@SirAndyIII @GuiltyasFeral I'm guessing you're talking about LFR here and if so yeah no one is doing that content, you could you know actually run the raid on normal, HC or even mythic?
god forbid a game company doesn't put a ton of work into a insignificant anniversary event while they are working on a whole ass xpac and giving people really good player housing that they've been begging for for years
@iKharrma@luxthos The issue is if you raid or do higher keys then world quests and lower keys are useless from a gear standpoint today but in legion & bfa you had artifact power which you got from everything so everyone was doing every single little bit of content cause everything gave you power
@JoelHDarby@Luckyone961 Not defending their choice but probably bc if Addons can read your buffs then you could in theory workaround their no combat solving which means it's either full lock or no lock on it can't have both
@Sakuraaa_XIV @TeejAndTaco Wouldn't balance druids being bottom of the charts meaning that the rest of you then don't know how to play your chars as good as he knows?
Performance issues in raids
Since everyone and their grandfather appears to be an expert on social media when it comes to FPS and frametime issues, let's have a little realtalk, explanations and recommendations.
1.) Currently known bugs in the game
- Models and modelscenes will cause major performance drops, due to a bug in the game engine. This is mostly related to any kind of WeakAura which is using these kind of model effects (Fancy glowing power bars, animated models dancing on your screen, etc). You should go through all of your WAs, open the "Display" tab and make sure you disable or delete any active models or modelscene overlays. Without calling out names, the two most popular class WeakAura packs on Wago are known for using these models for the above mentioned effects. This is not something the AddOn devs can fix really and Blizzard has to figure it out. The issue has been investigated and confirmed on multiple Discords and was reported to Blizzard.
- Portraits on UnitFrames and NamePlates will tank your performance by a lot, for similar reasons as models. You should definitely not use them and if you really insist, swap to 2D non-animated versions instead.
- If you are interested in raw numbers, one single rendered model on your screen can be as bad a 10 FPS loss. This is not made up.
1.1.) Spammy background events
- Events are fired by the game and used by AddOns to execute certain code, for example the GROUP_ROSTER_UPDATE event is only supposed to fire whenever someone joins or leaves your party/raid, however, this event is randomly spamming the hell out of your client and forces AddOns to execute their group roster update code over and over. The bigger your raid group, the worse it becomes.
2.) Filtering for Buffs and Debuffs [short: Auras]
- Filtering your auras using allowlists/whitelists and blocklists/blacklists is pretty much the most CPU intensive task for an AddOn, sadly the majority of players is used to it and it will be really hard to convince them for an alternative solution like single indicators which are registered to the combatlog using spell IDs since it would require turning off automatic tracking of auras on frames/plates and manually adding the IDs they care about.
3.) Issues related to fonts
- After some testing and troubleshooting it has come to our attention, that large font files, for example fonts which support multiple glyphs for alphabets like Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, will impact your FPS by a very noticeable amount. This is something you can only partially check ingame. Confirm which font/s you are mostly using and then figure out which AddOn is providing it and open up their folder in Interface\AddOns - then navigate to the font file and check for the file size - if your font file is larger than 100kb and you are using it for a lot of things, especially cooldown text on action bars and WeakAuras, it might be one of your issues.
4.) Update rates for bars, icons and text
- Most AddOns are shipped with very fast update rates on their animations, bars, icons, text. Some of them are updating in real time. This is a major impact on performance and you should go in the options and think about how fast you really need them to update the information. There is no reason in the world where your DPS meter should update at a rate of 0.05 seconds which is 20 updates !per second! - this also goes for your NamePlates and text on other elements.
Details: /details options -> Display -> Update Interval
Plater: /plater -> Advanced -> Update Interval
ElvUI: /ec -> General -> Tag update Rate
5.) Load conditions and AddOns-per-content
- Make sure your auras and AddOns are only loaded/enabled for the content you are about to run.
- For WeakAuras you can do that on a per-aura-basis in the "Load" tab
- For AddOns I recommend something like Simple Addon Manager (SAM) where you can setup profile sets of your AddOns based on custom categories for each content (Dungeons, Raids, PvP, Open World)
- There is literally no reason to have your Dungeon AddOns and PvP AddOns or stuff like HandyNotes, TomTom and other things enabled when you are about to start your mainraid for multiple hours. 1 click on the profile into a fast reload and all the unused AddOns are disabled.
6.) Graphics profile for Raids and Battleground
- It is highly recommended to enable the "Raid Graphics Quality" checkbox in your ESC -> Options -> Graphics -> Raid and Battleground tab. This will make sure the game will load a specific set of settings whenever you enter the loading screen of a Raid or Battleground. If you need some very sane recommendations for the best possible FPS while still being able to see all important effects like void zones, other puddles and healer cooldowns like Spirit Link and Healing Rain - follow my screenshot: https://t.co/DkWAvGhRaS
- If you need more in-depth information to futher optimize graphics in general please refer to my guide over at https://t.co/sdIcIB2bRV
7.) ElvUI-specific "fixes"
- Most people complaining about bad FPS using ElvUI, are not using the AddOn defaults (for obvious reasons) and prefer personal layouts or one of their favorite streamers layout, fair enough. However - everything about to follow, is the main reason for bad FPS and is not enabled by default out of the box.
- "Debuffs" on Party, Raid1, Raid2, Raid2 should be disabled, for filtering reasons explained at the very top of this post. This will be the main issue for your unplayable FPS in 20-30man raids.
- The very performance-friendly alternative here is "RaidDebuff Indicator" and can still be configured to display debuffs which ur current spec can actively dispel.
- Portraits on Player/Target should be turned off
- Smooth bars should be turned off
- Gradient coloring (added by some plugins) should be turned off
8.) Shameless self promotion
- If you are looking for the most optimized layout for dungeons and raid performance, you should definitely check out my personal work on LuckyoneUI (a ElvUI plugin)
- Its is completely free available on CurseForge and Wago AddOns / UI Packs
- Its always up to date with the latest and greatest tweaks for performance as well as bug fixes, even early on around PTR and Betas/Alphas when AddOns are enabled.
- Trusted and confirmed by over 4500 people on the Discord server, you will find mostly if not only positive feedback from people switching to my layouts.
- https://t.co/FXaSjhaLhn
- https://t.co/5G544kGtZN
- https://t.co/aDnBHBASTO
- https://t.co/XyozcRY9LO
9.) The end
There might be typos in this post, I don't really care :)
Also if you are about to start off a random rant about someones work or any kind of AddOn I will get rid of your comments. Let's be honest, no one is interested in reading your social media hate.
Apropå ingenting:
"10 personer går dagligen ut för att äta middag tillsammans. Notan blir alltid 1000 kr och delas på samma sätt som skatt betalas, utifrån inkomst.
De första fyra - de fattigaste - betalar ingenting.
Den 5:e betalar 10 kr.
Den 6:e betalar 30 kr.
Den 7:e 70 kr.
Den 8:e 120 kr.
Den 9:e 180 kr.
Den 10:e personen, den rikaste, betalar 590 kr.
De 10 åt middag på restaurangen varje dag, nöjda med uppgörelsen. Tills en dag, då ägaren till restaurangen gav dem rabatt. "Ni är så bra kunder", "jag ger 200 kr rabatt på era middagar."
Middag för 10 kostar nu 800 kr. Man ville fortfarande betala middagen som skatter betalas. De första 4 påverkades inte, de fick fortsätta äta gratis. Men hur skulle de andra 6 göra - de som betalade? Hur skulle de dela upp rabatten på 200 kr så att alla skulle få sin del? De insåg att 200 kr delat med 6 blir 33,33 kr. Men drog de bort det från varje persons andel skulle den 5:e och 6:e personen få betalt för att äta.
Restaurangägaren föreslog att det vore rättvist att reducera varje persons nota proportionellt. Han räknade ut de belopp varje person skulle betala. Resultatet blev att även den 5:e personen fick äta gratis, - den 6:e fick betala 20 kr, - den 7:e betalade 50 kr, - den 8:e 90 kr, - den 9: 120 kr, - den 10:e personen betalade 520 kr istället för tidigare 590 kr. Alla fick lägre pris än tidigare och de 4 första fick fortsätta äta gratis.
Utanför restaurangen började de jämföra vad de sparat. "Jag tjänade bara en tia av rabattens 200 kr,"började den 6:e personen. Han pekade på den 10:e : "men han tjänade 70!"
"Precis," sa den 5:e personen. "jag sparade också bara en tia. Det är orättvist att han fick sju gånger så mycket som jag!"
"Det är sant!" skrek den 7:e personen. "varför ska han få 70 kr tillbaka När jag bara fick 20? De rika ska alltid få det bättre!"
"Vänta ett tag," skrek de 4 första, "Vi fick ingenting! Det här systemet utnyttjar de fattiga!"
De 9 personerna skällde på den 10:e och kallade honom för utsugare som sög blodet ur de fattiga. Nästa kväll kom inte han till middagen, skönt tyckte de andra 9, satte sig ner och åt. När notan kom upptäckte de något viktigt. Det fattades 520 kr...."