Mods and Performance

[Mordekhuul]

You've got several redundant mods there.

Properly setup, you do not need Grid if you have Pitbull. Pitbull is a very all inclusive mod when setup properly.

With ZOMGBufftehraid, you do not need XRS checking for who does and doesn't have buffs, just mouse over the ZOMG icon and it will pop up the raid and tell you who has what and who doesn't have what. The only use I have for XRS now is to tell how much mana classes have.

Power Aura and DoTimer are also redundant as they perform the same function with DoTimer covering even more than Power Aura does.

I'll take a screenshot tonight (10 man) and one Sunday night (25 man, hopefully our weekly knock over of Sartherion and Archavon goes down) to show you want you can do with Pitbull (and I don't have it fully configured, just what I find useful).

Thanks - I'll be interested to see your Pitbull layout. Grid is a wonderful utility, however, so I'm wary of changing, but might give it a shot. Grid's customization, allowing me to easily add new debuffs to be shown in the center icon on fights where its important to know, and such, are pretty valuable, as is the screen space it saves in raids.

Pitbull always seemed a bit TOO customizable, and I'm wondering if you give up performance for that customization or not. Honestly, I'd be pretty happy with a simple mod that lets me reposition the standard blizzard unit frames for my toon, my target, and my target's target (plus pet when applicable), and I'd keep the party unit frames turned off during raids in favor of grid, or even just use grid during non-raid grouping.

XRS has been something I keep thinking of dumping. I use it to scan healer mana and to do a quick "promote all" in 10 man raids where I really don't care if everyone is an assistant as long as everyone can mark and broadcast as needed. That's about it.

I recognize the DoTimer/Powa overlap. My problem was that just running DoTimer I was sometimes letting my seal fall off mid-fight, and wanted something much more obviouis than one of many icons ticking down on the side of my screen.

Power Auras puts a very visible aura around my toon and a timer positioned just under my toon's feet. That said, I'm not totally happy with this situation either, as often in big fights it is hard to even see the power aura through all of the spell effects cluttering my screen (thanks to, you know, being right at the boss's knee-caps while tanking). Perhaps I'll ditch it and try to get used to scanning DoTimer or ElkBuffBars for the seal again...