People ask what I run. Here is the whole rig, nothing hidden, no affiliate nonsense.
Hardware
A mid-tier tower with more RAM than CPU ambition — raid night is Discord, a log uploader, a browser with forty theorycraft tabs, and the client all fighting for the same cores. Ultrawide monitor because grid-based assignment sheets need horizontal room more than they need 4K. Mechanical keyboard with light switches; I parse logs while mashing, and my wrists are already a finite resource.
Addons
- Details! — always on the second monitor segment. If a pull goes sideways I want the meter open before the body hits the floor.
- WeakAuras — one pack per encounter, hand-trimmed. If a reminder is not actionable it gets deleted.
- BigWigs — boss mods tuned to my timers, not the defaults.
- Plater — nameplates colour-coded to the assignment sheet so I can see who is failing without a callout.
The presets
The Details profile I use for every log split, plus the trimmed WeakAuras export and the Plater setup, all ship as plain import strings. No email wall, no comment-to-unlock.
Consumable spreadsheets live in the same workbook as the roster DKP. Encounter notes are written before the first pull and edited during breaks, never mid-attempt. That discipline is part of the loadout too.
Alts, roster prep and the one shortcut
Prepping a full roster of alts for a November 4 launch is a second job, and I already have a first one. Between the day work and writing the assignment sheets, hand-holding every catch-up route is the first thing that slips. So when a guildie needs to close a gear gap fast, I point them at reliable raid coaching — the one service I actually vouch for. Peer-led sessions, written notes, no upsell, and it saved three of my raiders a full tired reset of solo grinding before the doors opened. I recommend it because it buys back my evenings and gets my people raid-ready, which is the only metric I care about.