My guild is early in Kara, and as the main tank I'd appreciate any feedback from people who've been doing the job longer than me, as I was a raiding Rogue in WoW-classic.

Here's our Maiden kill from last night, I'm Nocturnas. She seemed to be silencing me a lot so I couldn't Thunderclap very much, and in general it was a bit of an adrenaline rush so I was mashing buttons more than being calm and collected. Any hints appreciated.

http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report...=9764,9972&a=3

I know our casters are willing to learn so any form of helpfull feedback is welcomed!

ps: its concerning these meters:The WWS Thread

Damage Done:
At a glance I'd say that you probably aren't dumping your rage as fast as you are building it, try to heroic strike more often if you find yourself constantly near or at full rage. Second, only 2 devastates seems pretty low, make sure you use it whenever you aren't hitting Shield Slam or Revenge (or have to refresh TClap)

Damage Taken:
10 Crushing blows is pretty much a lot for that short of a fight, focus on mashing shield block better and you should see those go away. Given the length of the fight you could have hit it significantly more than 18 times.

I hope that helps, if you want to really identify your weaknesses you need to look over several logs and of course not just one, that way you can find where you are habitually lacking.

Is there any reason (talents, skills etc) for Speedy to have such a low glancing blow rate? Especially when compared to the Rogues and Warriors in that log.

Also, your 'Miscellaneous gained' shows you consumed 3 mana pots from what I can see

Aye, the cheap ones. By mana pots I mean fel mana pots. -.-

Dont know why the glancing blow rate is so little though.

so I haven't seen it anywhere around here but.. How do you increase the range on your combat log? ><

I was hesitant to do this, but my guildmates want some criticism and asked me to upload this.

So this is the guild's first kill of Magtheridon, from today. =)
http://www.warbound.us/WWS/wws-20070529-2059/index.html

Any critique of any aspect of the fight would be welcome. (And yah, we have some nubs in that log)

Cube clickers were Malen, Ologhai, Ahur, Bahramoo, Datsama, Vathir, Yahmann, Jasminxx, Twopointo, Meltface. The others with the debuff/dmg in the log replaced some guys who died early in the fight.

We had a bad start at first because the first Channeler got pulled in 3 directions by ranged, and so we took a lot longer to kill all 5, but everything went very smoothly despite that. One of the locks (Hplovecrft) DC'd briefly, and the locks looked like they were having their hands full with the infernals and had little time to DPS (except Vathir who's a champ).

Edit - I'm sure it'll come up, yes I am now using a green OH as of 2.1, you can read the "Windfury and You" or "Enhancement Itemization at 70" threads if you need to understand why.

Windfury is at best a situational totem.

I see what you did there. But I don't think you want your... preferences (shall we say?) brought into the public light. :P

Ha Ha...well played, both of you.

Another Magtheridon log, largely unbuffed aside from a select few with oils/elixirs (Our top shadowpriest was flasked, though, and I think our hunter may have been also).

http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report=km1vgbvlkczxi&m

I feel like my log is only about accurate within +/- 10% though, as our synched SWStats had our top shadowpriest above me by about 10k, and everyone else higher than in my /combatlog. Not quite sure why, though, as I do have the combatlog ranges set to 200. I probably just need to convince someone else to run one too, so I can merge my data with theirs.

Self-analysis:
I was lucky enough to get our only shaman (2x Bloodlust, yay, shame he forgot about WoA for about 2 minutes during the fight), and I also wasn't on CoE/CoS duty (guild isn't fond of CoR /shrug - although we usually run caster heavy, so maybe it isn't quite worth it anyway), but I was helping with the cube clicking. I was also doing CoT/Banish/Fear during Phase 1, but since we were running a little warlock heavy, I didn't need to do as much CC as usual. My DoT rotations weren't perfect, but overall, I was pretty satisfied with my performance (I was around 600 DPS on our first Magtheridon kill, but we had fewer warlocks, so I spent much more of my time on CC, I didn't have a shaman, my gear wasn't as good, doing CoS, etc).

My quick analysis of everyone:
Most of our caster DPS was quite low, probably since most of them are currently PvP specced (not quite sure on our top mage though, seems like he was spamming Scorch the whole time?). I was fairly impressed by our hunter (made the switch to BM recently - Osse may actually give him a thumbs-up!) and our cat druid (normally an OT). Several of our top DPSers were also on cube duty, hoping I can get our raid leaders to change that up some.

Any other pointers would be much appreciated (anything pointed towards me especially, always looking to improve myself beyond the obvious gearing/enchants/etc).

http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report=nwyur2koaenbm
Second Tidewalker kill for my guild, killed on the 4th attempt tonight.

Critiques! Please!

I'll go ahead and post a Tidewalker from our kill tonight as well:

http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report=wm3c4zatoywcg

Warning, the first 15 or so seconds of the fight didn't get logged, but I think it's a long enough fight that the parse is still useful.

Morogrim:
http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report=n4f2yxrtxtgpo

Karathress:
http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report=xvkdxfrlkq5ds

Fairly clean kills, with some elixir use throughout the raid. I haven't looked at these closely yet myself, but at a glance, the "what the hell, why does Khazal use Fiery Weapon and wear blues" contingent may have something more to chew on, and Osse might almost give Gonk a nod of approval for Karathress.

My very tendons quiver in anticipation...

(Also apparently lossendil.com is getting fucking HAMMERED...)

Btw, do you BM hunters use steady/auto macroed, or are you doing timings by hand using autoshot timers etc?

I'm looking for ways to bring our hunter dps up from the MC numbers where they've seem been stuck for few years already...

Edit: Lossendil.com seems to be up now.
Sneaked last night log 1h ago in (complete) / seems that site is offline atm:
http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report=tujyhaxybflta

Magteridon & Morgrim(first kill)

Had SP at Magteridon and second BM hunter, couldn't use mana - really tried ^^. (clicking cube at the door with other hunter, so bit of running for us 2)

Morgrim, was in melee group due lack of Shamans! (3 rogues & dps war with no totems, noticed after kill i had BoW instead BoK and used 32dps ammo...)
But still breaking 1k dps, with no SP, Lotp, totems is kinda ... O.O really I'm amazed.

Consumables: Major Agi, Major Mageblood, Mana Oil, Agi or 8mana Food.

First Gruul kill after patch (4th or 5th overall):

http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report...25&s=4943,5360

Tried BM out of curiosity for the first time and... I'm pleased =)
Not so pleased with some other Dps'ers and mainly wondering what they're doing =/ or if I'm just expecting too much. (this time we did the "5 secs to shatter everybody hides" tactic)

This is the report from a Morogrim kill on 5/29. It was our fourth kill.
http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report=5s5hkewnzd5vs&m

I'd greatly appreciate if some expert mages (or experts on mages) could examine the data and comment on Roci (16th place in damage). While he is a little behind on gear and did not have a Shadow Priest or Shaman (unlike the other two mages), I still can't figure out why his output was so low. He's usually a great deal better, but on this encounter he's been consistenetly underperforming.

Any other feedback would also be appreciated.

Notes: Raid was generally fully buffed with food, oils/stones, and flasks/elixirs. Each Shadow Priests was in a caster groups with a Resto Shaman (you can track their groups by examining who they healed). The melee group consisted of both Rogues, the Feral Druid, and both non-Prot Warriors (Gilmore and Saucerhead).


Edit: Some of you may find our Hydross report interesting. Or perhaps it will provide some clues to our raiders' performances. It's also from 5/29. http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report=zw1jtuf5jxlmc

I suppose BM makes a huge difference on Morogrim as I'm pulling 1200-1300 dps without shadowpriest so have to hold back with kill command. :|

Karathress though, pretty nice dps considering you only shot spitfire totem twice so no extra damage from multi-shot. :P

I still recommend wind serpent for survival. :|

Our first Leo kill yesterday, 13 dps, 8 healers, 2 tanks:

http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report...by&s=3805,4285


Dps'ing with impunity helps in an aggro sensitive fight I guess.

Hmm, thanks for posting that. Just noticed one little thing about that fight...

5/29 23:15:46.187 Your Arcane Shot crits Inner Demon for 2714 Arcane damage.

Thats without trinket of red pet button as well. :o