World of Warcraft: Current Year

xzi

Mouthbreather
7,526
6,763
Pretty good video of some QOL addons some may have missed.

A favorite of mine is Paragon Reputation which gives the rep bars an actual.. progress bar because for some reason blizzard didn't add that by default

also Rogue Door Opener, which does exactly what you think it does if you have a rogue.

 
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 user

Khane

Got something right about marriage
20,889
14,714
It won't happen.

For those of you who don't know this, Blizz addons are basically bronze-age programming. There is a hidden 'addon channel' that addons can type text messages to, review and take actions off of. There is no API, no synchronization with other players via game tools, no connecting to some game-hosted database. It's all literally millions of lines of traffic for some shitbox addons going over this channel telling it nothing is going on this 1/4 of a second but let me know what you want from Taco Bell.

So the individual addon developers have to develop a streamlined data storage and communication protocol to support types of data transmission that is not supported natively in game and/or allows addon support. So let's, for example, say you wanted to automatically create an addon that allowed you to note the geospatial region of a player to allow them to autojoin a group. That means you would have to literally generate a new engine to determine 'GPS' coordinates, filter through millions of group finder requests (remember group finder is global) and tunnel data inside that spamming new group finders to constantly update information about your addon embedded inside approved Blizzard communication pathways in order to operate on what a normal person would consider an 'automatic' level for any type of modern or standard application. You can't just 'develop apps' like you would on the phone, you literally have to hack apart shit, for example if Tetris was the only approved application for the iPhone and you coded text messages on bricks to make a texting tool.

This is all true but I don't think the addon developers for WQGF and other similar addons had to do anything but use an already existing library that does all that for you. It's how mods like Cartographer, Gathermate2, HandyNotes, Routes etc etc etc work.

Im not entirely sure what was wrong with the addons that made the way they used the group finder "bug out" and lag everyone. It's kind of strange that the normal group finder worked fine but those addons didn't. As I understood it, all they did was take the name of the quest and put it in the search box and hit search within the group finder.

It was fixed within minutes for Angry World Quests so it's weird it was an issue at all.

By the way if you're still looking for a replacement get Angry World Quests. It's a one stop shop addon for all things WQ related and also has the auto grouping feature and it works.
 
Last edited:

Khane

Got something right about marriage
20,889
14,714
Pretty good video of some QOL addons some may have missed.

A favorite of mine is Paragon Reputation which gives the rep bars an actual.. progress bar because for some reason blizzard didn't add that by default

also Rogue Door Opener, which does exactly what you think it does if you have a rogue.



How have I never known about those quick loot addons. So good.
 
  • 1Solidarity
Reactions: 1 user

Noodleface

A Mod Real Quick
38,642
16,694
Finished glory of the legion raider last night too. While the mount doesn't fly that doesn't bother me , looks cool.anyways and I haven't seen many with it
 

Cybsled

Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
17,420
13,926
Legion invasions are awesome for alt leveling. I get an entire level clearing all the quests and it is fast as hell to do.
 

Dandai

<WoW Guild Officer>
<Gold Donor>
5,918
4,504
yea im thinking of leveling a paladin...are invasions the fastest way to level?
Invasions are by far the most efficient way to level by measure of Time Played; obviously since they only occur once per day, they aren't the fastest if you want to to hit max level in a single day.
 

xzi

Mouthbreather
7,526
6,763
Yeah, been taking my monk through them. Just having flying and the invasions WQs makes it extremely easy. There's also bonus quests in each zone that are effectively WQs marked on your map that I've hit as well that gave a bit of an extra boost. Only really played her the last.. 3? days during invasions and am 104
 

xzi

Mouthbreather
7,526
6,763
I have a feeling if I go monk tank i'd just be fuckin dead and one of the many monks that I complain about.

I'm going all heals so I can complain about being OOM again!
 

Kaige

<WoW Guild Officer>
<WoW Guild Officer>
5,655
12,891
Mistweaver? With Noodle as Brewmaster and myself as Windwalker, we can be a kung fu trio.
 
  • 1Solidarity
Reactions: 1 user