Infraction for Reforminded: 2. All opinions should be stated as succinctly as possible.

Kaubel · 06/20/09, 10:25 PM

Post: Tanking Spreadsheet
User: Reforminded
Infraction: 2. All opinions should be stated as succinctly as possible.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Just ask your questions and be done with it. And don't sign your posts.

Original Post:

First, I want to say "thanks" for this wonderful tool! The amount of work that has been put into it helps the warrior tanking community immensely. Like many others here, this spreadsheet has been my bible going through wrath, although now that I am deep into Ulduar 25 I find myself a bit confused as to some of the stat weightings, particularly as they pertain to different boss profiles. I un-hid the boss tab and tried to makes some changes to the weighting, but I really do not understand what the different numbers (.3, .25, etc...) mean and as such am unable to make educated estimations. The main reason I was looking into making changes was that it seemed like in all the boss profiles far too much weight was put onto block, excepting the "filler" where there is an extreme bias towards threat. MY questions are as follows:

1) Why is there such a bias towards block value and rating?

2) Are any of the current profiles suitiable for "filler ulduar boss"?

3) Can you give some explanation of how to adjust the TTL, Burst, and Threat modifiers so I can make educated adjustments to the weighting?

4) What would you changes these modifiers to on the bosses tab in order to best approximate the hard hitting, movement oriented boss fights in ulduar (keeping in mind my 25 man raid has 75% of our DPS over 5k)?

Thanks in advance for any help!

RM