Just getting back into the game, so Ovale has been a super helpful addon to get used to my dps rotation. But it seems like weakaurus or tellmewhen are the go-to addons for showing or creating rotations reminders and helpers.
Why is this? Ovale seems like a simple, fuss-free way to optimize your rotation per the SimCraft logs. But the general vibe I get from the community is that this add is for noobs and sub-par to WA. But to me, it seems like Ovale is superior for rotation purposes. For a fury warrior, Weak auras shows your enrage timer, and when you’re no longer enraged. But ovale actually prompts you to hit rampage when you’re no longer enraged or rage is above 90. Ovale takes the guesswork out, it seems. I know it’s kind of noobish, but seems like that’s be preferable to most. Am I missing something that WA offers over Ovale, strictly from a rotation-helper standpoint?
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Weak Auras is the 800 pound gorilla in the room with regards to custom data displays on screen.
it’s possible to run virtually any arbitrary code in it.
It has a huge user-base contributing profiles and displays to it.
That said, it’s a pig of an addon. It’s inefficient and slow and the code is a pure mess.
I gave up on it two years ago and use custom code for my reminders (including rotation notes).
Use what you like.
If Ovale works for you, go for it.
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Cool, thanks for the reply
You can use all of them at the same time, but don’t install WA or TMW unless you need them.
Weakauras is certainly a large add-on but even when I was playing on a pc that I had no business playing wow on, I couldn’t see a difference in the performance of wow with or without WA.
I raid and use DBM which is good at telling me what will be happening and terrible at telling me what I should do when something happens. A WA-user has created a WA for the various mechanics of BoD. They are more explicit in what you should do, Get mind wiped, it says “beg for dispel”. Get gold, it says “Run to side”. Someone else gets a mechanic you need to soak, it says “Find and Soak”.
At some point you may find that you’ll need WA, and by all means you can still use Ovale while you’re using it.
For now, use what works for you.