Not playing WoW, but with its gadgets and community

As you know, I just got forums going. That took quite some time to implement, and a lot of planning and thinking beforehand. I wasn’t playing WoW then but was doing stuff for it, or about it. How much time do you think Tekkub, Shadowed, Shazear, ‘Kahorie‘ or Ciderhelm spend with their addons, Rawr, simulator or official fan site? How about the time Whitetooth invested in calculating the diminishing returns and cap on miss?

A remarkable thing about WoW

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Acclimation, analysis with world of logs

I’m in a discussion about world of logs at the moment. Forum writer ‘opdk’ started some analysis between frost and blood tanks, using WoL, with some side-by-side data he had. I had earlier asked for help to analyse [Acclimation] and the two interests have converged. See the thread. Look around dk.info for some of his other data munging.

Hopefully it’ll lead to some more solid analysis on the value of acclimation (and then [Spell Deflection] too) as damage-reducing talents.

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What gear is required for a raid

The reactions to Gevlon’s feat of clearing Ulduar-10 in blues show that many players have fallen into the trap of thinking gear is the only solution to clearing raids. Gevlon called it a myth because he likes to be provocative and sensationalist, but at least on this he has a point.

Here’s the argument:

  1. Good players can compensate for their bad gear.
  2. Bad players need good gear to make up for their lack of skill.
  3. A bad player in great gear can still wipe all night in Ulduar and fail to clear it.
  4. A good player in crap gear can clear it.
  5. Therefore skill is more important than gear.

This is a continuum though, more on that below. Skill is not a binary key that lets you beat content; sure you need some gear too but perhaps less than commonly thought. » continue reading

World of Logs: buffs gained

WoL has a very good feature which lets you see when important buffs are up on. I was checking a log for a mate on dk.info who was dying repeatedly on XT in 25-man. I did some investigation in WoL.

I told him there wasn’t enough healing on the tank, probably too few assign on MT duty, some poor spell choices and not enough initial healing after the pull. I noticed not enough healing buffs on him too; Inspiration

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World of Logs: graphic analytics

Wow. You must check this out. Graphical and detailed combat log analysis.

details from world of logs analysis

That’s a sample from my combat log on the free service from worldoflogs.com. To interpret: I was MT on Kologarn and Freya, Aleona MT the rest.  It’s a partial log (forgot to turn on for Lev & XT) from U-10 last night.

Upload your own reports, it’s free or browse other guilds already-uploaded logs to check it out more.

Impressive,

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