Comments on: In Defense of Damage Meters

By: Grimmtooth

Grimmtooth — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:54:42 +0000

You’re right, Omen doesn’t do that. The reason I got confused is that I used to run with Omen and Recount overlapping the same space – both had the ability to auto-hide so I had one hidden during combat, the other out of combat. I think I got that trick from Hydra.

Before that I did the same as BRK did with that bit of space – window with combat log – and got absolutely nothing out of it. The man’s a diva.

By: Lyraat

Lyraat — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:21:15 +0000

Great analogy

I don’t like seeing UI’s with damage meters on them. I ran with Recount hidden. After every fight, “/recount show”. If I wanted to check my dps during a specific portion of the fight–burn phase, e.g.–I would unhide it. Otherwise, Recount was not on my screen and thus not tempting me.

Omen has a damage meter component? Maybe they updated it; been a while since I used it. Used to be the only way to tell you were doing good dps via Omen was when it screamed, “Danger, n00b! Your dps pulled the boss off the tank!”

By: Grimmtooth

Grimmtooth — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:13:23 +0000

And this is exactly why the article is not “In defense of people misusing damage meters”. Problem is that people seem to conflate the two. Instead of addressing people misusing the things, they boast “well *I* don’t use no steenking damage meter and if you do you’re a bad player.”. To which I had a nut-laden retort.

By: arcanetinkertank

arcanetinkertank — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:07:27 +0000

The thing about damage meters is this: people need to know how to look at them casually during a fight. It is like a speedometer in a car. When driving your attention should be on the road, but you do peek at the speedometer and the rear view every once in a while to make sure stuff is all in line to where it should be.