Please note: For this test to be performed accurately it was done with ONLY BW & DBM enabled. So it really comes down to how much you care about your CPU usage in raids, because DBM will gobble it up for dinner. However, memory use is not really a good measure of performance and was reasonable for both addons. Sure it was lower whilst idle but during an encounter it's about the same. So, what are the results after the entire LFR was over? Lets add up the addons again ( lower is better)Īlso worth noting is that BW goes back into an idle state when the boss encounter is over. If we combine the addons together, it adds to a total of ( lower is better) This fight is substantially heavy for boss mods and a good example to use to see the average combat CPU usage. The following was captured during the "Council of Elders" encounter. Boss mods should NOT be using resources while idling. The following is the memory and performance situation after logging on in a city, and idling for 5 minutes. I did this in the first Throne of Thunder LFR wing.
The only addons that were enabled were BW and DBM to get an accurate assessment of CPU usage. So I decided to install DBM and go for a run in an LFR. I brought up performance earlier but it doesn't seem to have been touched at all. Whilst I appreciate that some people with high end systems don't care about performance, it's important to note that the majority of players do not have top notch systems. While I admit that DBM does infact have 1 or 2 nifty features that BW does not, it doesn't overcome the years of stealing. Even tiny things like coloured messages, icons in messages, etc, were all BW firsts.
When it comes to features, things like "radar" proximity and "voice countdown" get ripped without shame. This has happened since the late days of Vanilla (around CThun) and whilst it happens far less often now, it's still an issue that makes us BW authors hate it in its entirety. There's also the age old issue of innovation theft, not like we can stop this. This much is obvious simply by glancing at the code for a few minutes. However speaking from an addon author perspective, if you care about your raid performance and framerate, BW is a hell of a lot more efficient. Which one is more clearer or more informative to a raid leader? And above all do the warning or which not what BigWigs reports to the raid will be visible by the people using DBM?Speaking from a timer perspective there shouldn't be much of a large difference because both mods have authors in end-game raiding guilds, BW has a slight edge for heroic content purely due to guild progression. What is the difference BW and DBM nowadays? As I've read some older posts and those well, do not give that up-to-date info.
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