Comments on: To watch ranks or not is the question

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:49:14 +0000

I had it used on my lock and i found it very helpful. I dual speced and forgot to train some stuff, so that was a nice reminder. Never would have picked that fact up otherwise.

By: Erasa

Erasa — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:11:08 +0000

So I took a two week break from WoW I come back startled that people used this addon. Not only that but people were being rude to me about it, like saying how I was undertrained when I just recently took my priest to the trainer…I’m a level 80 priest and when I go to the trainer I have nothing…NOTHING to train. I am not sure if something is wrong with the addon or something wrong with my priest. Anyways, I suppose this is handy in raids, but in 5-man heroics? Come on, 5 mans are there for being casual not something more.

By: fiad

fiad — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:44:15 +0000

well i lvled as resto feral(tank ofc) though 60-79 i would always be entered into the group as the healer so i didnt get a chance to tank with my druid till i hit 80 when tanks are like gold and get into groups instantly. as a result i was using a lot of how of rank skills (by accident ofc) anyways i ended up in a pug with a dude with this addon and by the end og it i had sorted out all my skills personaly i welcomed the whisper and consider this a great addon

By: Azem

Azem — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:19:15 +0000

Honestly, I don’t know if BBB reads these comments, but anyways I’m relatively certain that chain pulling, jumpy, non stop Paladin was myself. I ran with a tree Druid whose add on reminded me of my sloppy mistake. I was very surprised but also very greatful. As I recall the add on whispered me before the “impaler” boss. With the four mini bosses. If I’m mistaken about the tree being you, then please forgive my rantings and just take this as another person satisfied with this add on.

By: Delerius

Delerius — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:01:22 +0000

One of the top ten addons of all time.

Yes it is a little on the spammy side, but it makes up for that by being ridiculously polite. I’m not even that polite to my own mother half the time.

I have been raiding as a resto druid with my guild for several months, and on our 10 man progression team since icecrown came out. It was not until this last weekend when I ran a 25 TOC that I had never trained the max rank of Wild Growth. /facepalm

I was grateful, even if mildly embarrassed by it.

By: Steele

Steele — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:47:58 +0000

Absolutely hate this addon and the people using it below lvl 80. I got like 7k whispers while lvling up my twink in the battlefields… i didnt run to the trainer every single level of course and got punished hard by this addon. If not for fail blizz coders this addon wouldnt even exist. I use ensidia fails and the likes to show me fails but ill keep my hands off this piece of spam.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:54:49 +0000

Garinow: wowhead lists there as being 4 ranks of Chaos Bolt – are you sure about this?

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:38:25 +0000

And it gets better. I just switched to resto spec and found that ALL my healing spells except Riptide (maybe Earthliving Weapon also, I forget) were messed up on my toolbar. Earth Shield. Lesser Healing Wave, Greater Healing Wave, Chain Heal – what a great add-on.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:23:11 +0000

I read this post tonight, and got my first experience with the add-on today. It was incredibly helpful. Someone in a PUG was running it, and my badly-geared shaman alt, who is struggling with dps and healing, found out he was using a downranked Lesser Healing Wave as elemental. More importantly, he had rank 7 Flametongue Weapon instead of rank 10. My dps went way up after fixing that.

The person running the add-on apologized for it, and, remembering your post here, I thanked them profusely for their help.

By: Ciran

Ciran — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:30:48 +0000

I installed RW after reading this post thinking it might be useful. I certainly like to be corrected if I’m doing something stupid.

However, this has turned out to be a pain in the new PUG world… RW whispers to somebody EVERY time in my PUGs. And I mean every time. I have no idea if that’s just something about my battlegroup (Bloodlust) but it just goes off without fail.

And that DPS loss that is caused by somebody using an ability that’s a few ranks below doesn’t make up for the time it takes to explain what the whispers were all about. Or what ranks are all about (duh!). I’ve now turned the whispers off — and I just ping them myself if it happens to be the tank that’s using the downranked abilities. Rank 1 Consecrate just doesn’t do the trick…