Omen was working fine, but the new interface is less than desirable. Its too big, doesn't hide itself as well as it used to and isn't auto collapsing. Granted, it may have been fixed since I last updated it at 9pm Pacific last night, but sure it was annoying.

Lots and lots of preparation... back in the MC/BWL days my guild (back then) actually frowned on the use of add-ons, considering them a disingenuous facade for cheating/exploiting. While this was almost impossible to enforce, it was nevertheless a blanket expectation of the raid/class leaders that each and every person commit considerable time planning and preparing themselves (both from a item/grinding standpoint as well as tactics) for the upcoming raids. Healing rotations, tanking assignments, dps placement, and communication protocols (through the use of macros) were usually set in stone weeks before we ever even attempted content.

It took a rediculously long time to get into new content, but relatively little time to overcome it despite the lack of all the flashy/helpful addons. Would I go back to that environment if I had the choice? Hell no. But I have to admit that addons merely act as a time/skill buffer which allows people to overcome challenges faster and/or easier than they might otherwise have done without them.

In our Hyjal raid last night, some people were getting really lagged, and apparently it was Omen that was causing it. Something about too much data being shred between each other improperly. I'm not sure because mine looked like it was working fine. But it wasn't working properly, because I pulled Anatheron onto me (dpsing) despite being well below our MT's threat according to Omen.

well TBH wowace survived until I congratulated Kael on 3 consecutive patches without going down...

then Europe woke up and destroyed WAU

:P yes my voodoo is strong

Time to refresh your attitude on technology. It's there for us. It is meant to be used. And there are many people in the world that earn a paycheck making sure that when it gets used, it doesn't fail.

We are not at fault for "breaking teh internets". This is what breeds bigger and better technology. You should encourage the behavior rather than accept the current state of affairs. :)

Use the machines to death! They will be rebuilt.. bigger.. stronger. Faster.

Except that, broken addon fixes aside, the rest of that bandwidth is spent because the author simply changed a single number in the addon's TOC file? That's bigger stranger faster...

I'm not saying never update, I'm saying, on patch day, update the addons that BREAK. Wait till, say, the end of the week for those other non-essential updates.

I for one simply do not push out patchday updates to my addons unless they break. You'll see the updates for my addons this weekend... unless you bother to take the time to track down my git repo to grab an alpha build.