I've come to prefer BigWigs now, mostly due to the incessant noises, with the same quote from The Big Bad Wolf in Kara: "Run away little girl... run away!" on every. damn. ability in the game. It doesn't matter if you're standing in fire or not, or even close to someone who might spread something to you (Arc Nova on Nalak comes to mind) it's still screaming in your ear to move. I just wish a lot of BigWigs timers were built in, as I often do old raids and despite having plenty of the plugins, I'll still be missing a module here or there.
Is there any way I can just have the message emphasized rather than it including the countdown?
there are a few things I like on dbm, and there are two particular things I hate on dbm. now the questions are, can bw do the same things that I like on dbm, and does it the two things I hate on dbm better?
now what I like on dbm is:
two bars for "stuff in the future" (basically everything >10 seconds away), and the "stuff that is impending" (<10 secs)
so: can bw do this as well? (I believe so, just asking )
the countdown timer. this is a bit more difficult. basically everyone in my raid uses dbm, so I would be pretty alone with bw. but I'm also the one most likely to start the pull timer.
so: if someone else starts the pull timer with dbm, am I able to see it?
and: can I start a timer with bw and if so, can everyone else with dbm also see it?
other than that, I need to be able to customize messages shown or not shown in a similar way dbm does it. I want to have the control over which messages I want to see and which not.
now to the stuff I hate on DBM and I wonder if BW can do this better:
#1: being able to save and load profiles. that is the one thing I hate SO DAMN MUCH at dbm. I cannot just say "load profile raid" and I have the same settings as on my main char, no, for every alt, I have to reposition it uniquely. not even copying the damn lua files seems to work.
#2: this correlates to the first point on the first list... I have to explain it.
The "long" bar on dbm (the one with the >10 seconds timer) is not sorted by "time left", it is simply sorted by "what ever comes up next, is added on top". well, this is plain bull shit. when I want to see a timer that is like 20 or 15 seconds ago and this is in between of one with 30 seconds left and one with 90 seconds left, I take ages to find this timer, and then it just pops out into the "short" bar.
Now - I want BW to be able to change the sorting of this "long" bar. is this possible?
if bw can do all what I listed, then I wont hesitate a second to switch to bw.
Like the timers I have in this (to the right of my character)?
If so, then it's sorted by time remaining as far as I'm aware.
Your #1 dislike I'm not sure, I've never actually checked. Both your likes, though, are in big wigs. There're 2 timer bars (you can see them in my picture, the one immediately under my character is the "impending" one, and the one to the right is the further-away stuff. Pull timers are set up to work with both DBM and BW regardless of which you have (you'll get theirs' and they'll get yours).
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for god's sake, yes. timers sorted by time remaining, aka next thing to happen is on the damn bottom. exactly what I want, jeez. why the fuzz is dbm not able to do that? I never understood that.
now I just need profiles in bw and holy moly I am so gonna go big wigs tomorrow.
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Do you have any plans of adding emphasized bars for each ability? I really hate that if I enable emphasized bars I get to see all the abilities and lets be real 90% of them are of no real importance. For example on Dark Animus I would like an emphasized bar for Interrupting Jolt and regular bars for everything else.
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I dont agree, to be quite honest LittleWigs suck ass and is the only reason why I have DBM installed. I run challenge modes, very competitively and while timers on 5 man bosses are not super important it can quite easily be the difference between world fastest and world second fastest.
ill give it a go tonight, like the idea of lower cpu usage that BW has but im sceptical, so used to dbm i wonder if i will be comfortable with this. i mean i havent long stopped using xpearl.