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@Lampi_Ygo Good luck! Do you know if there will be a stream of the event?

Today we get that Top 8 - Gamescom LAN Regional in Cologne with 232 players! (Yes, I traveled from Liverpool to Cologne overnight 😈)

@KottonJesse Either way, we really enjoyed the games. It was really fun to watch and we as a group learn from watching the high tier games. Looking forward to your next event, and safe travels for the rest of your journey!

@MyNameIsPengu I am happy with how i played. G1 some choices could have been different but i think the highest win% was what i chose. How do i deal with it? i’m used to it. It hurt more the first few times. Keep in mind i’ve come 2nd 7 times now 😅

25 hours of travel ahead of me 💀 excited to be headed home briefly and i’ll stream monday. But for the mean time….. q&a? Got inf time to kill so any questions, fire away.

@magicalbean_uwu @TheCaptainKet I'll keep him safe. See you on Saturday, Ket!

@TheCaptainKet I HOPE YOU STAY SAFE

Why am I traveling 390 miles to play yugioh 😭

If a product was sold as commercial free it should be free. If you want to have ads, sell a different product that includes ads. Man, it feels like redzone won't be the same 😔

meowscles??

Season 5 just got a bit more supernatural.

THE BELT REMAINS IN SOUTH AFRICA 🏆🇿🇦 @DricusDuPlessis defeats Sean Strickland at #UFC312 by unanimous decision to become, once again, the middleweight champion of the world!

@NFL @ScottHanson @drewbrees enjoying some Christmas football from South Africa 🇿🇦 with family. A lovely way to end the day. #NFLonNetflix

LEGO will release new Formula 1 sets in 2025! [@Falconbricks]

We're giving away 1x Trader’s Gilded Brutosaur (AH mount) 😎 Like + RT Follow EU ONLY

Performance issues in raids Since everyone and their grandfather appears to be an expert on social media when it comes to FPS and frametime issues, let's have a little realtalk, explanations and recommendations. 1.) Currently known bugs in the game - Models and modelscenes will cause major performance drops, due to a bug in the game engine. This is mostly related to any kind of WeakAura which is using these kind of model effects (Fancy glowing power bars, animated models dancing on your screen, etc). You should go through all of your WAs, open the "Display" tab and make sure you disable or delete any active models or modelscene overlays. Without calling out names, the two most popular class WeakAura packs on Wago are known for using these models for the above mentioned effects. This is not something the AddOn devs can fix really and Blizzard has to figure it out. The issue has been investigated and confirmed on multiple Discords and was reported to Blizzard. - Portraits on UnitFrames and NamePlates will tank your performance by a lot, for similar reasons as models. You should definitely not use them and if you really insist, swap to 2D non-animated versions instead. - If you are interested in raw numbers, one single rendered model on your screen can be as bad a 10 FPS loss. This is not made up. 1.1.) Spammy background events - Events are fired by the game and used by AddOns to execute certain code, for example the GROUP_ROSTER_UPDATE event is only supposed to fire whenever someone joins or leaves your party/raid, however, this event is randomly spamming the hell out of your client and forces AddOns to execute their group roster update code over and over. The bigger your raid group, the worse it becomes. 2.) Filtering for Buffs and Debuffs [short: Auras] - Filtering your auras using allowlists/whitelists and blocklists/blacklists is pretty much the most CPU intensive task for an AddOn, sadly the majority of players is used to it and it will be really hard to convince them for an alternative solution like single indicators which are registered to the combatlog using spell IDs since it would require turning off automatic tracking of auras on frames/plates and manually adding the IDs they care about. 3.) Issues related to fonts - After some testing and troubleshooting it has come to our attention, that large font files, for example fonts which support multiple glyphs for alphabets like Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, will impact your FPS by a very noticeable amount. This is something you can only partially check ingame. Confirm which font/s you are mostly using and then figure out which AddOn is providing it and open up their folder in Interface\AddOns - then navigate to the font file and check for the file size - if your font file is larger than 100kb and you are using it for a lot of things, especially cooldown text on action bars and WeakAuras, it might be one of your issues. 4.) Update rates for bars, icons and text - Most AddOns are shipped with very fast update rates on their animations, bars, icons, text. Some of them are updating in real time. This is a major impact on performance and you should go in the options and think about how fast you really need them to update the information. There is no reason in the world where your DPS meter should update at a rate of 0.05 seconds which is 20 updates !per second! - this also goes for your NamePlates and text on other elements. Details: /details options -> Display -> Update Interval Plater: /plater -> Advanced -> Update Interval ElvUI: /ec -> General -> Tag update Rate 5.) Load conditions and AddOns-per-content - Make sure your auras and AddOns are only loaded/enabled for the content you are about to run. - For WeakAuras you can do that on a per-aura-basis in the "Load" tab - For AddOns I recommend something like Simple Addon Manager (SAM) where you can setup profile sets of your AddOns based on custom categories for each content (Dungeons, Raids, PvP, Open World) - There is literally no reason to have your Dungeon AddOns and PvP AddOns or stuff like HandyNotes, TomTom and other things enabled when you are about to start your mainraid for multiple hours. 1 click on the profile into a fast reload and all the unused AddOns are disabled. 6.) Graphics profile for Raids and Battleground - It is highly recommended to enable the "Raid Graphics Quality" checkbox in your ESC -> Options -> Graphics -> Raid and Battleground tab. This will make sure the game will load a specific set of settings whenever you enter the loading screen of a Raid or Battleground. If you need some very sane recommendations for the best possible FPS while still being able to see all important effects like void zones, other puddles and healer cooldowns like Spirit Link and Healing Rain - follow my screenshot: i.imgur.com/eqpan7l.png - If you need more in-depth information to futher optimize graphics in general please refer to my guide over at github.com/tukui-org/ElvU… 7.) ElvUI-specific "fixes" - Most people complaining about bad FPS using ElvUI, are not using the AddOn defaults (for obvious reasons) and prefer personal layouts or one of their favorite streamers layout, fair enough. However - everything about to follow, is the main reason for bad FPS and is not enabled by default out of the box. - "Debuffs" on Party, Raid1, Raid2, Raid2 should be disabled, for filtering reasons explained at the very top of this post. This will be the main issue for your unplayable FPS in 20-30man raids. - The very performance-friendly alternative here is "RaidDebuff Indicator" and can still be configured to display debuffs which ur current spec can actively dispel. - Portraits on Player/Target should be turned off - Smooth bars should be turned off - Gradient coloring (added by some plugins) should be turned off 8.) Shameless self promotion - If you are looking for the most optimized layout for dungeons and raid performance, you should definitely check out my personal work on LuckyoneUI (a ElvUI plugin) - Its is completely free available on CurseForge and Wago AddOns / UI Packs - Its always up to date with the latest and greatest tweaks for performance as well as bug fixes, even early on around PTR and Betas/Alphas when AddOns are enabled. - Trusted and confirmed by over 4500 people on the Discord server, you will find mostly if not only positive feedback from people switching to my layouts. - curseforge.com/wow/addons/elv… - addons.wago.io/addons/elvui-l… - uipacks.wago.io/user/595f85182… - discord.gg/xRY4bwA 9.) The end There might be typos in this post, I don't really care :) Also if you are about to start off a random rant about someones work or any kind of AddOn I will get rid of your comments. Let's be honest, no one is interested in reading your social media hate.

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Our next episode is out. Go give it a listen!

Any collectors here? 👀 We're giving away a Dragonflight Collectors Edition signed by Method raiders & creators! 🔥 How to enter: 🧡 Like 🔁 RT 👤 Follow -Ends May 15th-

@zygorguides Do we know when the guides will be live for the EU prepatch?

Cataclysm Classic is set to launch on May 20, and Zygor has been diligently preparing to ensure that our guides are ready and maintain the high standards you expect from us. Click the link below to learn more about what’s new from us: zygorguides.com/blog/get-ready… #zygor #worldofwarcraft

Heads up gaming fans! We won't be putting an episode tomorrow due to some extenuating circumstances (you know what it's like 😭) We'll have a new episode out on SATURDAY so keep your eyes on our social media for when it airs!

So not tomorrow, but Saturday!

Need your weekly recap of the hottest news in gaming? Look no further! Episode 39 is now available on all major audio streaming sites. Our hosts chat @Ubisoft shutting down @TheCrewGame, @Warcraft virtual reality, @SupergiantGames Hades 2, an odd patent from @Sony and more!

Rants and fire. Episode 39 is out now!