Hello, everyone.
I´ve always used Recount as my dps meter. It has always helped me improving my gameplay, and on my old raiding groups it was the addon of choice of the guilds as well. I´ve been raiding since MoP and I can´t remember ever having high discrepancies between my addon and other people´s.
What´s been happening lately is people are constantly posting the dps numbers on Skada, and it always shows quite lower numbers for my performance.
I recently got kicked out of a group in which Recount was telling me i was doing 16 k, whereas Skada showed only 9.9 k. The closest Skada shows is 4k difference (Example: If I´m doing 15 k on Recount, Skada will show 11 k).
Could anyone clarify me on why does that happen and what´s the “real” numbers? This has been troubling me for a while, cause I know I´m no outstanding player, but 9.9 k for a geared toon is just unacceptable and it seems unreal. I´m a well geared and commited fury warrior and I think my rotation is alright, judging by Icy Vein´s guide. I just can´t believe I´m THAT bad. Regardless, I´d like to know what goes on.
Could that be high latency or server issues? What is the most reliable addon for this?
Thanks in advance!
Details matches what the logs show so Details is what I trust the most.
Recount has been wildly inaccurate for quite a while now.
I never used it but I’ve heard Recount isn’t very good anymore.
Most of my guild uses Details! damage meters.
Skada does not start recording till the person who has it installed hits the boss/target.
Recount starts when boss/target is engaged.
And all in all Details is the most accurate out of the 3 addons(and the best I have used all 3) and puts less stress on your Cpu because it has the lowest mem usage,skada uses your hard drive(allocates) and should only be used in older rigs with slower Gpu’s but it is the most inaccurate out of the 3.
Recount uses alot of mem as well.
Just another one here to say time to drop recount. I used it for years as well, but it’s so inaccurate now it really is kinda useless. Started using Details beginning of bfa. It takes some getting used to, but I suggest messing around with all the settings every so often til you find a comfort zone. I still prefer the look and some of the functionality of recount more, but who cares if it isn’t accurate know what I mean? Give Details a try just don’t uninstall recount til you feel more familiar with it if that helps.
Chiming in as another Details convert. I uninstalled Recount weeks ago.
Thank you for the reply, I´m going to look forward to using Details from now on!
details is more detailed, better UI, and uses less resources.
recount is old and needs phased out.