[Resto] shaman_hep reports
 

I believe it would be useful to the shaman community to collect output from many different shaman with the reports from shaman_hep.

The goal is to provide:

Overall shaman HEP values
Overall talent HEP values
Overall trinket values (data on up time will be useful here)

I would like reports to include the following information:

Content: Ulduar10, Ulduar 25, Naxx10, Naxx25, Maly10, Maly25, Sarth10 (number of drakes), Sarth 25 (number of drakes)
Version of shaman_hep:
Config File (you can strip out the comments if you like)
Report

In addition, if you notice any specific boss fights that parse with different HEP values, that data would be useful too.

How to run shaman_hep:

1) Get a combatlog

a) Use Loggerhead to automatically save combatlogs for you.

LoggerHead - Addons - Curse

Extract it to your World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns directory.

In game, in the loggerhead configuration (I just right click on the FuBar item).

You can either check "Prompt on new zone?", or manually set up each raid zone that you wish to log.

b) Manually: Use /combatlog to toggle it on and off during a raid. If you are using it for more than shaman_hep, you probably want to toggle it off each time you are outside the raid zone too. Loggerhead does that automatically (assuming you do not have logging enabled on the outside zone.

2) Download shaman_hep

shaman_hep - Addons - Curse

Extract it to somewhere on your computer where you will have shaman_hep and for convenience log files too. For this example, I will assume it is extracted to the World of Warcraft\Logs folder as World of Warcraft\Logs\shaman_hep

3) Edit the shaman_hep configuration.

Copy the World of Warcraft\Logs\shaman_hep\shaman_hep.cfg to player.cfg (for example Trelis.cfg) and edit it with your player name, talents, glyphs, relic, etc.

4) Download and Install Perl

For Windows I recommend ActivePerl:

ActivePerl

Mac:

I believe Mac OS v10.2 (Jaguar) and later come with Perl installed. You can just open up your Terminal and use it.

I am not a Mac user, so if a Mac user has problems using shaman_hep let me know and I will put up better instructions for Mac users.

5) Run shaman_hep

a) Open up a command prompt/Terminal.

Windows XP:

Start->Run "cmd"

Change directory to your shaman_hep folder.

Windows Vista:

Open Explorer to the shaman_hep folder, shift-right click on the folder and select "Open Command Window here".

b) Run shaman_hep using your config file and log file:

perl shaman_hep.pl -c player.cfg log_file > output_file

For example:

perl shaman_hep.pl -c Trelis.cfg ../WowCombatLog.txt > report

Then open report with any text editor and scroll to the bottom.

Content: Ulduar25
shaman_hep version: 213

Config file:

Report:

[Edit: Added "Report:" before the report]

Content: Ulduar10
shaman_hep version: 213

Config file:

Report:

If you wanted to PM me or post a link to a previous post (or post here) the exact details of how to run this, I'd be more then happy to run some HEP parses.

But the details have to be tailored for an idiot. Seriously.

I know you have to download your program and then a Java thing (which I did once before), but that's as far as I got - but I'm willing to give it a try again.

I added instructions to the OP, if there is any confusion please send me a PM and I will try to assist further.

Ok - going to post up a sample so you can tell me if there are any glaring errors in it so I can correct it for next time. If I get this right, I'll keep posting them on occasion.

Instructions for Dummies
 

I wanted to expand upon Stassart's instructions. They will probably be very clear to some players but others might be puzzled as to why the program doesn't execute when they double click on shaman_hep.pl after installing Active Perl.

First, you need to open shaman_hep.cfg. If you cannot open this file by double clicking it, open it using any text editor such as Notepad. Once you have the file open, the information you need to enter is self-explanatory.

Now, you're ready to run Shaman_hep.pl.

Shaman_hep.pl does not have a graphic user interface (like most of the programs and add-ons that you are used to using). Therefore, everything must be done through the command prompt. On Vista, another way to access the command prompt is to go to the start icon and where it says "Start Search" type "Run". Then, when a window pops with Open and a pull-down menu type "cmd".

Now, go to the folder where shaman_hep.pl is located. Right click on the icon and go to "Properties." Copy and paste the location of the program. It should start with something like C:\Games\World Of Warcraft\...

Now go back to the black window with the command prompt. Type "cd" and then paste the location of Shaman_hep. For example, cd C:\Games\World of Warcraft\shaman_hep

If you get this message: "xxxx" is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Or this message: The system cannot find the path specified
Then check your spelling or the location of shaman_hep.pl. Capitalization should not matter. Typing "dir" may help you verify that you are in the correct directory.

Once you successfully change directories, type: perl shaman_hep.pl -c shaman_hep.cfg WowCombatLog.txt > Report (Yes, I know this looks odd but type it exactly. Use the name of your combat log if it is not the default WowCombatLog.txt.)

The larger your combat log, the longer this process will take. However, after a few minutes, there should be a new file called report in the same directory that you installed shaman_hep.

Here's my first report from Ulduar-25 on April 21. I was there for Thorim to General Vezax. I'm the only resto shaman in our guild. I may not have been present for every fight.


And here is my log from several attemps on Yogg, mainly phase 1 and phase 2:

Two IDs of Ulduar 10 up to Mimiron. My assignment varied from fight to fight, so it should be a quite balanced report. I went Elemental in three of the bossfights. Does that anything to the parsing that would influence the results? Healing Setup: Druid, Holy-Priest, myself

Concerning the reports: if I don't misread them, our percentage of Riptide-powered Chainheals is really low (<4%). I'm not really decided if we should pay more attention to the fact and adjust our playstyle, or if Riptide-enhancing really plays a minor role in Shaman-healing.

Content: Ulduar 25 -- before the Blessing of Wisdom / Mana Spring nerf
Version: 213 As an aside, the config file asks for talent points spent in BoK & DS; these are base skills learned at the trainer now for the paladin & priest.

Thank you for pointing that out. I will add a comment to those entries in the config file that they are only used for combatlogs from prior to 3.1, and hard code Improved BoK to 4 talent points for 3.1 (the effect is included in the base spell), and hard code Improved Divine Spirit to 0 talent points for 3.1 (the talent was removed and the effect was not included in the base spell).

You are hitting some sort of bug with the alive combat time. I am looking at the code to figure out what could possibly cause this. For some reason it thinks you were alive for 4 days in combat when you were only in combat for 5 hours.

This bug is going to cause your report to be invalid. A lot of the HEP values in your report for abilities look way low because of this.

I will send you a PM to see if you are willing to run a test fixed version to make sure it fixes the issue. (It looks like the bug has to do with crossing log files and if you are dead and in combat at the end of the previous log file and then cross to a new log file in which your start off in combat, but maybe there is another corner case that hits it).

This looks wrong, but your code has gotten sophisticated enough I can't figure out where it's coming from. The rest of you are getting positive numbers for this value. Is it because I'm manually starting my combatlog instead of using Loggerhead?

That isn't necessarily an error. That number is just derived from how much higher than 20% your EW procc rate was. If you only procced EW on 19% of your heals, it will give you that value. On a large sample, your EW procc rate should never be below 20%, but if you only heal people with high hp and the sample is small enough, it could give a negative value.

Another possibility is that you didn't keep up EW all the time. Not sure if the program looks at that or if it just assumes you have it up 100% of the time.

printf "\tBlessing of Eternals earthliving weapon proc rate: %3.4f%%\n",
($blessing_proc_percent * 100);

# Is anything left over?
$blessing_proc_percent = 0
if $blessing_proc_percent < 0;

Wrong order of those two statements. I should have a minimum value of 0 before I output the result, but just being clear that it is visual only.

It currently does not check if earthliving is currently on the weapon when counting possible earthliving procs. I knew this so when looking at overall proc rate I divided it by its uptime.

I will have it display both for the next release:

Earthliving proc rate when ELW is applied: 22.9795%
Earthliving proc rate overall: 22.7804%

The first one will be used for calculations. Currently the second one is, which is bad if you do not have a high uptime on earthliving weapon.

Here is updated my report from Ulduar 10:

We covered FL, Razorscale, XT-002, Kologarn, Auriaya, Thorim, and Hodir