Posts Tagged ‘Violation’

Quick Notes

Just 1-2 quick things:

  • On Damage Meters accuracy, SW Stats and Recap produce the same results as Recount, Violation and WWS. They all do not count self-inflicted damage through seals as damage output and give the same numbers as Recount.
  • On healing, the numbers are vastly divergent and no coherence can be observed between any of the surveyed meters so far. There is no coherent way to ascertain which tool is closest to what was really produced.
  • Changed the banner logo for horde on the site. The previous one was choppy and ugly.
  • Why did the Exodar crash? The question is, perhaps, why did it make to Azeroth in one piece at all? I mean come on, if the Draenei were trying to play the space faring race in this kind of horribly conceived spaceships, no wonder they are on the brink of extinction. Most of their race probably didn’t perish at the hands of their foes but in freak space exploration accidents. Whoever designed this thing should be exposed as a public testimonial demonstrating that drugs are bad.
  • Truth of the matter, what happened was probably that when the helmsman’s shift was over, the pilot from the following shift never found the cockpit of the thing, and the helmsman simply fell asleep of exhaustion after trying to keep his flying anvil under control for 72 hours straight. The poor tentacle-face is probably still sound asleep somewhere, as nobody actually managed to remember the way to the helm. True story.

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The Quest for Precise Damage Metering: Almost There

Numbers, numbers, numbers. That’s all Damage Meter addons are about. Getting those as close to what your server knows you have dealt is the big challenge, and the Eldorado promised by patch 2.4 is getting closer by the day.

To wit: I logged onto the Paladin to do some Shattered Sun dailies. On a whim, seeing I had both Violation and Recount active, I also turned on Loggerhead, and recorded my session.

As long as I kept bombing the dead scar, all three measurement tools fully agreed with each other. However, when my little loladin went back to do ground-based demon cleansing, differences started to appear.

Here are the relevant screenies with the numbers:

Recount and Violation

Recount: 1’631’418

Violation: 1’638’861

WWS: 1’632’022

WWS Summary

One thing to note regarding WWS, it appears to be counting the self-inflicted damage of my seal / judgement of blood as part of my total damage output:

Complete WWS Breakdown

Compare this to Recount’s damage records for Seal / Judgement of Blood:

Skill usage recorded by Recount

Now the interesting part is that if you add the self-inflicted portion of Blood to Recount’s total damage dealt, you end up with 1’638’810, a mere 51 points off Violation numbers, and that, IMO, explains the differences. Violation, too, counts self-inflicted Blood damage as part of your personal damage output.

But wait, it gets better. If we manually add up every line in the WWS detail report, the total actually reads 1’639’465. If you look at that breakdown, you’ll notice one oddity right at the bottom: 604 damage attributed to Mana Tap. That’s a fluke, mana Tap doesn’t deal damage, it drains mana. Remove this fluke and total damage dealt, including self-inflicted, according to WWS is… 1’638’861.

In summary:

  • WWS and Violation gather the exact same numbers
  • WWS currently needs some manual tweaking in order to exclude flukes
  • Recount is only off the other two by a blood elf’s hair

All three surveyed metering methods really do end up very close to each other. If we remove the bombing run from the numbers, after tweaking, Recount records 137’342 damage, WWS and Violation 137’393. The discrepancy is 0.03%. That’s tiny, and a testimonial to the huge amount of work put up by the three dev teams on patch 2.4 data.

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Damage Meters in Patch 2.4, One Week Later

This is just a very short round-up of where the different damage meters are today in terms of parch 2.4 compatibility, not an in-depth benchmark.
I ran a very quick solo hunter test, here are the results:

  • Damage Meters in patch 2.4Assessment: Not updated yet, the author said he was working on it.
  • DamageMeters: Author has abandoned the project, a new maintainer might pick it up
  • Recap: Up and running (tested r66903)
  • Recount: Up, unfortunately the latest beta I picked up appears to be stuck in test mode. Undoubtedly, this should be fixed with the next revision (tested r67044).
  • SW Stats: Up and running. The pet settings appears to be broken in the sense that you get the data as a hover tooltip, but not as a separate bar yet (tested v2.2.0)
  • Violation: Up and running (tested r669621)

The data recorded by all three fully functional addons was consistent through and through, but this wasn’t a full test, just a “let’s look what works” sortie.

In related matters, for Combat Text Scrollers, SCT and MSBT have been updated for 2.4. The author of Parrot is currently very busy with DogTag 3.0, Rock and PitBull (several revisions going up per day), since Rock in particular is the bedrock on which all his addons are built, expect Parrot to come when he’s satisfied with the state of the three current focus projects.

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