How do i look at a "parse"

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to see what mistakes I made and where I need to improve during a raid?
Ive never used a parse website or addon before, but id like to get better. guild raided heroic last night and I want to see what my biggest areas of improvement need to be.
thanks!

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If someone in your raid is logging, you can usually find your parses on warcraft logs https://www.warcraftlogs.com/

However, if nobody is raid logging you’ll have to do it yourself which is a bit more complicated and involves using addons and other programs and uploading the data.

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and take the link to your raid results and visit wowanalyzer.com. it’s really useful. one thing it does is check out how you used the big mechanics of your rotation. It will say "you used [skill] incorrectly 60% of the time. Here’s how you SHOULD do it.

I have trouble memorizing a rotation w/o understanding WHY. Wowanalyzer explains the why carefully.

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Ok cool, I see it but I don’t know what any of this means lol!!!
Does it look bad doc?
Vansa - Dethecus - Warcraft Logs

Also thanks for the reply!

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Neat, thanks. This looks kinda like what I was looking for.

oof, it looks bad. Much as I hate to, I think I need to figure out weakauras to manage these procs and cooldowns. uhg

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I mean, it doesn’t look horrible. The colors represent percentage brackets which means you were in the lower 25% for all of your fights based on your ilvl.

Grey = bottom 25%, Green = lower 25%, blue = upper 25%, Purple = top 25%…Gold = Top 1%, Pink = Top Parse

Ideally, you want to try to at least stay in the green/blue area but if you are trying to do mythic content (and some AOTC guilds) they usually want purples.

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I see, so blue is average.
I’m old, I’m OK with being average lol. Got some rotational stuff to work on it looks like.
Thanks man.

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Heroic parses are tough to look at for a number of reasons. One being that your ilvl is only ~466, while the ilvl restriction for doing heroic is, well, non-existent. What this means is that you’re going up against 488/489s who just happen to be doing heroic runs for whatever reason. ilvl brackets on WCL can be helpful to see how you compare to someone your ilvl, but should be taken with a large grain of salt as it really isn’t the best metric to look at.

Really what you want to be looking at to improve is other logs from higher-performing FDKs. In any particular fight, you can cross reference your uptime on a buff (say Breath of Sindragosa), or how many casts of oblit you got off inside of a CD window, to the amount of times someone else did, etc. The “Compare” feature listed in an individual report can help you do this, or you can just have different reports open in different tabs.
Other sites like the recently-featured lorggs[.]io can show you when top performers of any spec are using CDs, pots, lust, etc. as well.

but yeah having a solid foundation of your prio list and how to play fights is what’s going to help the most

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Best option is to download the “warcraft logs” app. Then you enable combat logging in game, launch the app and select the combat log. It will be uploaded to warcraft logs where you can view it. Then if you want some tips you can use WoW analyzer. It can parse thru your log and point out areas for improvement.