Originally Posted by addisgreymane
I hope you understand why pure dps classes like SW so much...its all about the epeen =/ To tell you the truth, in some ways its good to have an exact number of dmg for everyone in the raid, it creates competition and with that come more raid dps. If i know that I am just 15,000 dmg away from #1 on a boss fight I will push that extra bit to get to #1. Its stupid, I know, but the truth is that that is 95% of what the pure dps classes care about. If we are all trying to be #1 on the charts then all of us are creating more DPS, and in turn helping the raid. This does not mean that your mod is not great...but for it to give the most accurate picture of a raid it needs to be correct on the total amount of dmg done for every raid member, and display that information to each member of the raid. I guess we could all just report our total dmg and compare but that is kinda a waist of time.
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Hehe, alright the competition is good but a lot of people need help understanding why they are sucking on the damage meters and thats what SWS & DamageMeters don't tell you. I've been raiding from Casual guilds to "Avg" Raiding Guilds to Hardcore Raiding Guilds and there is a large difference in the type of player some people its fine to just say you are 10th on the list improve or we are gkicking you but thats not an option for your Average/Casual raiding guilds (and oftentimes they are RL friends).
What I'm looking for is analysis techniques to try to tell you where people can improve and how can you tell them to improve. Its nice and all saying you are 15th and go improve but if you are 30 years old and only play WoW on your evenings on offtime with little time/interest to goto EJ forums or wherever for the theories it would help to get ingame information from people who know and can tell you how to improve (eventually I like to figure out a good way to show a player's cycle or do they just do moves randomly etc).
Another example when I was trying to figure out tanking gear etc and see how my improvements actually turned out SW Stats was worthless so I went to Recap and modified the hell out of it to give me more relevant data so we can see in reality how Druid & Warriors compared in tanking (theory is nice but sometimes you want hard data). At the moment btw Recount is garbage as well for this but working on fixing that :-p
Edit: Third example you have no idea how well DOTs are being used by Warlocks in SW Stats besides you can see the damage but I felt this personally wasn't good enough so looked for another metric that can tell you that.
If you only care about epeen comparison then the extra features of Recount are pointless. Now if you actually care about how to improve yours and other people's DPS then Recount I hope will be useful.