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News a Week Into 4.3

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on December 6, 2011 | 6 Comments »

After the cut you will find a few bits of news related to the LFR loot exploit, hunter bugs, femaledwarf and logs.

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Using World of Logs to Evaluate Hunter Performance

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Evaluating player performance is a fundamental part of progression raiding, be it analyzing how a recruit holds up, identifying where existing players on the roster can improve, or just considering yourself relative to your teammates.  One of the best tools for evaluating raiders is World of Logs (WoL).  This post goes over how to use [...]

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How to Read and Use DPS Bot

Posted in Resources, World of Warcraft, tagged , , on July 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

DPS Bot takes parses from World of Logs and aggregates them to rank dps specs.  To do this, DPS Bot uses the somewhat novel ranking measure of “spec score.”  What is spec score?  How should we use it to evaluate dps?  After the cut we go over this ranking method and the rest of DPS Bot’s measures to develop an understanding of how [...]

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World of Logs Expression Editor Queries for Tier 11 Content

Posted in World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »

This post goes over ways to pull specific types of lines from combat logs of the current raid tier so that you are only looking key information from a fight. Viewing raw log data may seem simplistic compared to the flashy summed and/or averaged figures that World of Logs (WoL) and Recount provide, but don’t be [...]

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Using Comparebot as a Hunter

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , on April 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Comparebot is a useful analysis tool that takes World of Logs parses and winnows that information down even further.  It does not display more or better information than World of Logs.  It does, however, do more legwork for the user than WoL, pulling out important bits of information and presenting them in ways that are easy to [...]

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Interpreting Damage Meters

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , on March 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »

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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World of Logs DPS by Class!

Posted in Hunter, Spotlight, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , on May 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Do you want to know how hunters stack up on average to other DPS classes? Take a look at the article that OutDPS poet laureate Frostheim painstakingly put together for wow.com. Interesting data. A visual cue that might help you is that all hunter specs are in green.

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Learning from Logs, Part 2

Posted in Hunter, Resources, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 29, 2010 | 12 Comments »

Editor’s note: give it up for Zeherah, who is back to write up part two in the Learning from Logs segment! Part one is here. So you’ve already learned the basics of how to make a combat log and post it on World of Logs, and you know how to navigate the site (and if [...]

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Learning from Logs

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 11, 2010 | 12 Comments »

Editors note: Please welcome the illustrious Zeherah, creator of www.femaledwarf.com! She has awesomely agreed to write up the occasional post when she can think of something that would benefit us! Today, it’s about how to learn from logs. Step 1: Create a Log and Post It Note: If your guild already posts logs to the [...]

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