Spellwarding

Competitive WoW Healer. I stream weekly at I play Bass guitar in @bloodedny, Always trying to improve :) 日本語を勉強している

[Spellwarding @Spellwarding]

Some really good info in here

[Luckyone @Luckyone961]

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.

[Spellwarding @Spellwarding]

Huh.

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Stream is LIVE, playing the new WoW season - https://t.co/vGgrdrLnUA

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Unlucky

[Goezerian @Goezerian]

Fuck you mike

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Stoked to be playing in Rochester next week! I've listened to @TherealVEband since wayyy back in my high school days, can't believe we're playing with them - I'm giddy! Come see me do some crabcore on stage 🦀🦀🦀

[Blooded NY @BloodedNY]

One week away until we play in Rochester with @TherealVEband @deadeyesmd and @PromisesUnsaid

Make sure you grab tickets, either directly from us, or you can grab them at https://t.co/lVrPLOaBM1

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TILL I ROT IN MY GRAVE

🩸 A Taste Of Blood 🩸

@BloodedNY's newest single - Stream anywhere on 05/10/2024

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[Chris Sayers (he/him) @NotSoLittleC]

so, enough time has passed now for me to talk about why i decided to leave Blizzard. a mixed year with great teammates, but a management that mistreated, lied to me, gaslit me, gave me a fake promotion, and HR that refused to help.

buckle up friendos. 💪

[Spellwarding @Spellwarding]

STOP doom scrolling!

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Pic for attention 😉

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HEY.

I play bass in @BloodedNY and we're releasing a song this week 🤟🤟🤟

Give us some love and find us on any platform ♥️

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Splits are finally overrrr 😭

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Dude I have flown into soooo many trees/branches already @warcraft

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Bro gimme this WoW again @WarcraftDevs

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@Goezerian I just wanna play the gameeeeee

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[Blizzard CS - The Americas @BlizzardCS]

[#Dragonflight] Current maintenance has been extended until 5:00 PM (PST). We apologize for any disruption and hope to restore service quickly.

[Spellwarding @Spellwarding]

Just after I got all settled in too 😭

[Blizzard CS - The Americas @BlizzardCS]

[#Dragonflight] Current maintenance has been extended until 4:00 PM (PST). We apologize for any disruption and hope to restore service quickly.

[Spellwarding @Spellwarding]

Pizza and wings are ordered, doggos are taken outside, the mega @MonsterEnergy is ready to go, let's have a banger of a 10.2 #warcraft

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Yoooooo Nerubean raid let's goooo

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I love this time of year. Watching all of the new trailers gets me hyped af to play WoW again.