Bigwigs (please dont derail into RDX6) - Page 3

Sunnyd · 08/31/06, 1:27 PM

Currently I run with Bigwigs and NECB as the primary mods, but I also have La Vendetta and CTRA installed. Its quite amusing to see 3 sets of timer bars during each boss encounter, each a few milliseconds out of the other. I do rate Bigwigs highly, and would use it over LAV, but only because more people seem to use it. I have to admit though, I could function pretty soundly with just NECB.

The only thing I have noticed recently is that Frenzy warnings dont appear to be broadcastable by any of the mods I have installed, including Bigwigs and CTRA. I even went so far as to disable the others and leave CTRA, however it didnt seem to have any impact. Im not sure if its a local thing to me, or others have noticed it.

I havent tried RDX in any way shape or form, but do like what Ive heard and seen. Depending on his pricing model eventually, will dictate whether we switch to it, or stick with freely available ones.

Karakas · 08/31/06, 1:29 PM

I'm still getting used to Bigwigs, but the nice thing about NECB is that I can incorporate custom timer bars into my macros that I can then hit on a raid if we need to time something. Not sure if you can duplicate that with just Bigwigs.

crimsonsentinel · 08/31/06, 1:37 PM

Originally Posted by Kalman

You can mouseover some bosses from places you wouldn't expect, due to 3D glitches (like being able to /tar Chrom from Broodlord's room) and the bossmod will enable. Probably you were standing somewhere such that your mouse cursor passed over Vael through the gate.

yes, i'm pretty sure that's what happened. The mod is still great, its just a bit strange sometimes =P.

Nurru · 08/31/06, 1:46 PM

NCEB's newest version has every boss timer I need so far including Polarity Change and Power Surge during the Thaddius encounter.

Rogar · 08/31/06, 1:55 PM

Originally Posted by crimsonsentinel

Bigwigs works great for me, except for the fact that it usually doesn't turn on until the boss does its first "event" whatever that may be (since I'm a healer and I almost never have the boss targeted).

Each BigWigs boss isn't turned on until you mouse over the boss. This is a desired feature, as it improves performance compared to always having every boss mod turned on. Yes it's possible in BWL to activate several BigWigs bosses from Razorgore's room due to clipping issues.

Originally Posted by Nurru

NCEB's newest version has every boss timer I need so far including Polarity Change and Power Surge during the Thaddius encounter.

Does the latest NECB have logic to deal with things like sacrificing too early on Faerlina so her silence timer is correct, but her enrage timer isn't 60 seconds?

Flubber · 08/31/06, 2:32 PM

One slight issue I noticed last night with MAexxna, is that upon entering the room, without engaging the boss, the NECB timer would start counting down her abilities. Bigwigs was fine (I've always used both, as I love interupting mobheals with earthshock, and NECB is the best by far)

kharen · 08/31/06, 4:09 PM

I always manage to enable the C'thun mod in Bigwigs while we're doing the Bug Trio, since his room is just next to the bug trio's room.

Fendryl · 08/31/06, 4:23 PM

Originally Posted by Flubber

One slight issue I noticed last night with MAexxna, is that upon entering the room, without engaging the boss, the NECB timer would start counting down her abilities. Bigwigs was fine (I've always used both, as I love interupting mobheals with earthshock, and NECB is the best by far)

NECB is bad about preemptively starting at times if you have a warrior syncing, if they have a boss targeted and bloodrage, it'll assume the encounter has started. This happens mostly on twin emps, not sure if Maexxna's the same.

Nisu · 08/31/06, 4:41 PM

Originally Posted by Kalroth

/console SET CombatLogRangePartyPet "150"
/console SET CombatLogRangeFriendlyPlayers "150"
/console SET CombatLogRangeFriendlyPlayersPets "150"
/console SET CombatLogRangeHostilePlayers "150"
/console SET CombatLogRangeHostilePlayersPets "150"
/console SET CombatLogRangeCreature "150"

You only need to do this once, it'll be set for all your characters.

Wow, thanks a lot.

I'm the sole person in-guild running BigWigs right now (damn lazy guildmates), and this will be a huge help in a lot of fights. I haven't tested it in a raid yet, but I was able to catch a priest heal at the Mine in AB while on the cliff road above, so it looks great.

As for BigWigs... I love it. Timer bars are much better than spam, and it warns for stuff CTRA_Boss doesn't (Fankriss snakes, for example).

Edit: WTF? I see two exact copies of my post (#60 and #61), but if I edit one, it edits both. Very odd.

hubar · 08/31/06, 5:04 PM

Our raid has been using LV boss mode. It is fairely good so far.

Has anyone compared these two?

Jazzer · 08/31/06, 5:11 PM

Originally Posted by Rogar

Originally Posted by Nurru

NCEB's newest version has every boss timer I need so far including Polarity Change and Power Surge during the Thaddius encounter.

Does the latest NECB have logic to deal with things like sacrificing too early on Faerlina so her silence timer is correct, but her enrage timer isn't 60 seconds?

Unless I'm delusional it was working for me like this last week. When we started, I had an enrage timer pop up for the first one. I then sac'd too early and I got a silence bar only. When she did finally enrage, I sac'd one and I got 2 bars, 1 for the silence effect and 1 for the next enrage.

Best mod I've used so far for this fight.