[News] DBM Module Restructuring and unification - DeadlyBossMods/DeadlyBossMods GitHub Wiki

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https://github.com/DeadlyBossMods/DeadlyBossMods/wiki/%5BNews%5D-DBM-Module-Restructuring-and-unification#tldr-what-you-need-to-do

What's changed:

  • With DBM 10.2.30 and later, DBM has completed long process of making every module a hybrid mod that auto loads to conditions and needs of current client running from. As such, no custom modules exist for specific game versions any more. Every DBM mod is designed to "just work" regardless of what addons folder it's thrown into.

  • You can basically copy any DBM addon from vanilla (including SoD) to dragonflight, and all game flavors auto the right code base needed for that game version.

  • This also prevents user error from installing the "wrong mod" for that game version. There is no longer a wrong mod for any game version since there are no longer two versions of wrath mods, two versions of vanilla mods, etc. This always lead to user confusion more often than not. A user would search for DBM Wrath and find the retail modules for it and not the classic ones, or other way around.

  • This also reduces issues that could crop up with mod managers going forward when the unified WoW client comes out in Cataclysm and War Within (where you have ONE copy of WoW that can play every game version). Multiple versions/copies of same module existing in diff packages, that'd then install to the SAME place in a future unified WoW client, would cause massive checksum verification issues and conflicts. We're getting ahead of that now.

So what does this mean in english:

  • Going forward, the mods you use on retail are also the mods used on classic. The only caveat is that if you download just deadly boss mods core, you don't actually have raid modules for cataclysm, wrath, tbc, or vanilla until you also download the packages for those modules.

  • I've decided this is still better with all the current and future issues it solves (described above), despite a brief confusion for users in the present (who one minute had DBM Core+Custom classic modules in a single package to DBM Core+Unified retail/classic modules as two separate downloads).

TL/DR. What you need to do:

  • If you are playing retail only. Just download Deadly Boss Mods main package and DBM Dungeons (Dungeon mods recommended for retail)
  • If you are playing Cataclysm. Download Deadly Boss Mods main package and Cataclysm raid modules and DBM Dungeons (if you also want dungeon mod).
  • If you are playing Wrath Classic. Download Deadly Boss Mods ain package and Wrath raid modules and DBM Dungeons (if you also want dungeon mod).
  • If you are playing Vanilla Classic (including Season of Discovery). Download Deadly Boss Mods main package and Season of discovery / Vanilla raid modules and DBM Dungeons (if you also want dungeon mod).
  • *Optionally, you can also add older content modules to classic as well, for example on Cataclysm Classic you can add Wrath, TBC, or Vanilla raid modules if running older raids.