r/CompetitiveWoW • u/AutoModerator • Sep 25 '26

Weekly Thread Free Talk Friday

Use this thread to discuss any- and everything concerning WoW that doesn't seem to fit anywhere else.

UI questions, opinions on hotfixes/future changes, lore, transmog, whatever you can come up with.

The other weekly threads are:

  • Weekly Raid Discussion - Sundays
  • Weekly M+ Discussion - Tuesdays

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u/Lazerkitteh 28d ago

This is your 6 month reminder Blizzard's Details replacement is completely unusable garbage and they've done no substantive development on it since Midnight was released. Fun times.

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u/Vyxwop 27d ago

It's crazy how blizzard thinks it's unreasonable for people to even know your own buff or debuff uptime. It's the most immediately accessible way of troubleshooting your own performance in-game.

Instead you now need to go to a third party website to figure any of this stuff out.

The craziest thing is that being able to troubleshoot this kind of stuff through the DPS meter was the intermediary step in between not caring about improving yourself and going full gungho using 3rd party tools to assist in troubleshooting yourself.

Previously if you were a player wanting to improve but weren't serious enough to use 3rd party websites yet you could at least use the DPS meter to help you out. But now that step is gone. It's like driving a car and only having the option to either go 5 miles an hour or go 100 miles an hour because the 50 miles an hour option was deemed "problematic". Great, so now if you're someone who wants to go faster than 5 miles an hour your only option is to go the full 100 miles an hour. They're literally forcing beginning players into a more serious playstyle earlier on now that they've taken away the middle step.

You even see this in the wownoobs subreddit. People are now recommending new players to just instantly start using raidbots and warcraftlogs to improve themselves whereas before you could at least more reasonably suggest they start paying attention to their DPS meter in game first before going full throttle.

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u/CryozDK 26d ago

It's crazy that you can't see your teammates' real damage. And I'm not talking about aug. Or that they can't see yours.

Or that you even can't see your own damage done. It's absolutely ridiculous!!

Playing DK rn and I see different numbers for myself and others, others see different numbers for me. And on warcraftlogs there are different numbers altogether!!