http://wowwebstats.com/ezb4zdtdama43 (this link will only work for 2 weeks since I'm not hosting it)
This is the breakdown for our shade fight. I don't post these as some sort of cockwaving competition (even though I did top the healing charts!) and I didn't record all our fights because we haven't been having problems on bosses which means we probably don't need to tune anything as far as Kara is concerned. WWS is a tool.
But to the point. SW stats will tell you some quick facts, but this breaks down EVERYTHING. You'll notice that you can easily pull up the damage done/in and heals as charts, but if you click on a characters name, you will see how much damage EACH attack form did.
So you may ask yourself: Why do I need to know that Grommet's Cat's melee attack did 29% of his overall damage with an 18% crit rate and missed 15.5% of the time and had 0.1% of that mitigated?
The answer is tuning. If you can see what you're doing wrong or what works you'll be able to improve. Not only that but this will give you the ability to see what others are doing right that you may be doing wrong. I've found that looking at what others that share you class are doing better than you is the easiest and fastest way to improve. You'll notice this more in 25 mans when you have more class duplication, but for the rogues which we had 2 of last night it might help.
As a simple act of comparison, let's compare myself and HolyTrogdor. He's about 10% lower on heals than me. No big deal, I'm slightly better geared too, so that will affect things (but shh... I'm also retribution spec'd). But you'll also notice that his overheal is a good 10% higher than mine. If click on each of us you'll notice that holy light (big slow heal, high HPS) accounts for roughly 50% of my healing, and flash of light (small fast heal, lowHPS) the other half. But if you click on trog, you'll see that holy light accounts for almost 70%. This could explain the overheal. Perhaps by the time he goes to heal someone, I've already thrown a flash of light or a chain heal's hit the target.
I used the above case specifically because I don't want to rag on anyone for what they're doing wrong I and specifically told Trog when healing as a paladin to not worry about overheal and just spam away since with decent gear you have practically unlimited mana. So he did what I told him to do if anything. So the above case is a moot point. But I just wanted to show you how the tool can be used.
That being said, if I start recording fights and such and I see that it's being used for dick waving or bitching about people and what they're doing wrong and how they suck so bad, I'm just going to stop posting it. Or at least, I'll keep posting it, but I wont tell you guys the link :)
5 comments:
Don't you mean huge tit waving?
Good post though Mel. I knew that I needed to add 2 points back into Animal Handler (which gives my pet +4% hit) and here is the proof. That miss rate is way too high. Although I was happy to see that I didn't have any misses (my hit is now over the magic number of 142).
Definitely keep on saving the data and posting -- I know it'll help me out and others as well.
angelo here... sweet post. I like it a lot. I think it would be great (if easy) to record all boss fights week after week so that people can compare their stats to how they did in previous weeks.
It's nice to see all the detail, but somewhat hard to pull any real meaning from a lot of it w/o anything to compare it to, since after all, the only real competition for each one of us is our own stats and improving on them. Since most people are different classes and or provide a different utility to each fight, have different gear, etc.. comparing to somebody else doesn't do much.
I know i'm constantly tweaking my addons, cast rotation, and other things. It would be awesome to be able to compare my stats to my previous weeks.
What's the app called? What kind of hosting does it need? I may be able to help in the hosting.
Hey Melime, can you post the other kara fights? Some of us would like to see more data from other encounters. Thanks.
Unfortunately I only have the data from the Shade of Aran fight.
I wasn't the person who used to record the fights and set up this data in my guild, so when I did it, it was more for me to play around with to see if I could figure it out. I have every intention of recording every boss in the future because Angelo is right, you need to compare to something and since there isn't alot of class duplication. At least comparing yourself week to week to see what different things help might do the trick.
And Angelo, as far as the app and hosting, there's some server side stuff that you will need, and it all SHOULD be on their website. I'm going to try and set it up on my hosting but for last night, I figured using their free 2 week one would be fine. Let me figure out how things work before we go screwing with it :)
Angelo: as an update, it's easy enough to host. The application has a function to build the reports as a set of HTML files.
That being said, I'll probably just start hosting them myself out of ease. But I'll worry about that later.
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