How is DPS actually calculated? Why do meters love mages? How do you figure out how much damage you and others did to adds or shields? This post answers these and other questions in a discussion of how to read damage meters. The post only focuses on interpreting damage counts on Recount and World of Logs (WoL) and leaves [...]
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Interpreting Damage Meters
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged Activity, Damage Done, damage meter, dps, DPS(e), recount, wol, world of logs on March 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
How Did I Die? Learning From Death in Cataclysm Raids
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged damage, healing, logs, recount, wipes on February 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Causes of death are less obvious and more complex these days than in the previous expansion. Our health pools are so large that it’s usually multiple things that kill us over a longer period of time. Heals are so conservative and small relative to health pools that it can sometimes be hard to say whether or not [...]
How to save a healer!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agro, agro threshold, aoe tanking, arms warriors, disengage, distracting shot, fade, feign death, focus, healers, macro, misdirect, misdirection, misdirection macro, pve, raiding, recount, recount addon, saving healers, tank, tanking, threat, threat generation on June 4, 2009 | 10 Comments »
We’ve all been there- you’re doing a fight with multiple tanking targets, and possibly multiple tanks. Healers can generate a lot of agro. Some of them don’t have clutch agro reducing abilities. Sometimes they get something pounding on them, and like all of the weaker classes, get mulched in short order. Today I’m going to [...]