DBM vs BigWigs and why

[Nephcyte]

Explain why you prefer either

[nicbizz]

Explain why you prefer either

3 letters are easier to type than 7

[Ribesal]

Out of functionality i like DBM more, but since WoD it was to loud, spamming sounds and wall of texts in the middle of the screen all the time...

I never found a way to disable the unnecessary wall of text (it blocked the enemy nameplates, so thanks for saying me someone casts something while blocking the only way to target it fast so i could interrupt that) without disabling the related sound. The only way i found to solve this was using BigWigs instead.

[Nitros14]

Big wigs did something screwy on mythic archimonde with marks and DBM worked, so we switched to that and inertia means we're still using it.

[Tzalix]

DBM, simply because of convention. It's what I've used from the start so I know how it works and how to configure it to my liking.

[hasslehoof]

always used bigwigs, dbm is a nightmare to set up & change settings, unless you don't care about that, the default settings aren't bad on it tbh.

[Polarthief]

3 letters are easier to type than 7

"BW". 2 letters are easier than 3.

In all seriousness though, I started with BW but swapped to DBM. I don't remember why I swapped but I just like BW better overall.

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[Emerald Archer]

DBM, simply better. The updates come out sooner and are more accurate, the team behind it puts significantly more effort in. I've lost count of the amount of times when a new raid has come out, that people with Bigwigs have been like "Oh, I don't have a timer for that yet"

DBM also has a much larger ability to customize and change, compared to Bigwigs. Not sure how people struggle with it, it's very basic to change things around. If people don't like the sounds/appearance/text on DBM, they can change it all to something they do like.

But honestly, the fact that DBM is updated sooner and more accurately than Bigwigs (Even if it's just by a day, as a mythic raider that shit matters) There's no question for me which one I should go for.

[Deleted]

I only really use DBM for timers, anything else is better covered with Weakauras since DBM's warnings are completely fucked up warning about non-important things and not warning for the actually important things (at least in dungeons). Don't notice it much in raids as most of the boss' abilities are so obvious anyway...

Never tried BigWigs so can't comment on that.

[Tharkkun]

DBM is more accurate overall. I find it easier to change notifications and warnings as it's global versus doing it for each individual boss in BW. BW however uses less CPU so when your client is fighting for cycles during a raid it's a noticeable FPS difference even on newer hardware. Also DBM works with the VEM plugin so voice calls added to timers is a boon for myself.

[drbatman]

DBM is so bad, I'm glad I switch to bigwigs in NH.

DBM was just SPAMSPAMSPAM, like size 50 text across my screen, 2 full lines, on Chromatic anomaly to dodge the blue orbs. Its the easiest fuckin thing, DBM thunderfucks you with so much spam you can't even see your screen, to avoid some shit you would have anyways cuz its obvious as shit.

yea you can turn it off, but personally I dont wanna have to go through DBM every tier and cherry pick every option/notice/ability ect.




bigwigs is just nice and simple and clean, love it.

[Einsz]

BigWigs, DBM timers were not accurate on way too many bosses

[Erolian]

Whatever is actually working at the time??

[Yuyn]

DBM has been adding way too much extraneous crap enabled by default for the past few years. It's probably better now that they can't do the "hudmap" or whatever, but that was what made me get away from it.

[RaZz0r]

I Swapped from DBM to BW in legion due to DBM adding more and more crap that you don't really need.
BW is just way cleaner then DBM.

[Deleted]

Stuck with BW ever since MoP because DBM was a disaster and updated several days later than BW. The same thing happened in Highmaul during progression so fuck DBM

[Temp name]

Used DBM from wrath until MoP. BW had a module for attenuation on the first boss in HoF, so I swapped. Never went back.

[Spike`]

Something else

[lonely zergling]

BigWigs. Easier to handle, looks better, updates are available faster (I used dbm before but switched to bw when they had trouble updating it for new raid). +1 for not getting ear raped in standard configuration haha.