New glancing blow mechanics
 

I haven't seen a thread on this, does anyone have a character on the PTR that can generate some stats for the new glancing blow mechanics?

Thanks

Perhaps you should arrange some Anachronos testing on the PvE server?

I copied myself there since it will be less crowded, and more useful for testing.

I will add my character to the queue as soon as it is not full, but according to the estimates it will not get copied for at least 4 days.

I'm not 100% convinced that Anachronos functions as an actual level+3 ?? boss. We were bored waiting for our 5th for a Black Morass run, so those of us that were rerolls/alts started attacking Anachronos. I made a point of never hitting shield block, and we got him to despawn and he never once hit me with a crushing blow.

Ah... so what else is convienient?

Onyxia, I guess?

I suppose your only options are Magmadar, Onyxia, or Attumen, I guess.

my rogue is in queue to be copied to the test server. It said the wait was 2 days when i did it earlier today. It will be alliance and was copied to both PvE and PvP. I'll help test if needed when I can get on.

Attumen is by far the fastest clear and most useful - particularly since it's a semi-long fight vs a braindead horse to even get good parsing from.

If healers are needed and you decide on Attumen, I can help out with that (resto shaman). I doubt we'll be raiding tonight anyway.

I always thought attumen had high armor or something, though.

Maybe it's just such a boring fight that he "feels" like he takes longer to die.

Kazzak's replacement in the Blasted Lands should also work shouldn't it?

Doom Lord Kazzak is a little rough to PuG on.

And I've honestly never seen a new kazzak in Blasted Lands since the gate opening event. Admittedly, I've not been checking.

They may be gone in 2.1 with changes to the area, but as of 2.0, there are level 73 nonelite scorpids in NW Blade's Edge on the northern plateau.

I said his replacement in BL, not Doomlord Kazzak :P. It's my understanding that he's as easy at 70 as the old Kazzak was at 60.

I've uploaded a /combatlog file from Onyxia Phase 1, but all the CombatLog parser I've found don't support glancing blows. I try to write a script myself to get the data but if anyone already has a parser he can download the file here: http://rapidshare.com/files/25986524/glance.txt.html and post the results.

edit:

So I found a parser, which supports glancing blows, namely http://www.lossendil.fr/serendipity/. According to this parser 30,25% of my white hits were glancing blow and they did 75,83% of my normal damage.
A second rogue had 24,11% glancings and they did 73,22% of his normal damage.


The difference is quite big, so we need more data input but it is obvious to see that the change isn't that good.

edit2:

The calculation of Wodahs is correct, the parser I used didn't factor in misses.

Edit: beaten by a minute!