Been reviewing the top guilds in Classic WoW to see where I can improve on my rogue alt and While the top rogues are not all that better geared; band of accura and R14 daggers / chest and only a marginally higher base crit of ~33% for auto attack the results of where the game play actually takes place is very different.
My rogue alt typically sits around 35% crit without songflower, and in raid when the bosses are dead my auto attack crit values match closely to my actual results.
Now when I go look at how I can improve to be on par with the pros I noticed something.
These guys are only slightly better geared yet their auto swing crit rates are upwards of 68+%.
Thats a massive advantage in damage that I am willing to farm for; are there even 30 to 35% worth of consumables in the form of critical strike?
I’ve gone over it and I can piecemeal maybe 15%, but where are they getting no kidding 30%+ from?
It’s not just their rogues either, their warriors also have ridiculously high crit chance nearing 70%.
Check the buffs if the parces allow. Pretty sure they have LotP, moongoose, elemental sharpening stones, winterfall juju, frost giant juju, flurry juju, wintersl squid, dm buff, ony buff, rend buff, songflower, and roids.
Um, TBH I am at a lose too. Elemental sharpening stones for sure add 3% per weapon. Fairly certain that you can’t put a poison over it. Maybe he’s using juju flurry.
It’s possible that these are some private server hero that found something we don’t know.
I can’t seem to load it up at work. Will look when I get home. As I am curious now to. Since I play q rogue also.
parsing is all rng because fights are to short, you’d typically need a 3-5min fight to even out crit rngs but most fights are over in a min these days
Yeah short fights are a massive advantage for combat; shorter the better because of AR and flurry.
have expect him to have full world buffs and consumes, but can RNJesus truly be so giving?
I have never been so lucky. Their warriors show the same, it’s just amazing.
Looking over the other fights I see what you’re talking about, RNG loves these guys, and clearly hates me when it comes to crit outside of my stat budgets.
The other thing is that parses can be faked, I’ve seen it done before. It’s a very simple matter to load the log up in some editing tools and modify things to change the numbers. There’s no way to ensure that a log is real or not, as long as it’s self-consistent.
You may be looking at some that have done just this.
I wouldn’t put it past them to post logs with disinformation in them to throw people off their strats and such. They compete with other guilds to get the fastest times, why give any information away?
50% crit doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to crit 50 out of 100 attacks. It could be 0 out of 100, then 100 out of 100, and any array inbetween.
I’ve gotten almost 400 on golemagg due to lucky crits even though I don’t have hand of rag, which is usually mandatory for paladins to get above 400 in MC(I know, I know - lolret and all that, but it’s make a point.) Other rets on the server without hand of rag have also spiked there as well; shoot, my gear isn’t even that great, I had top rag parse for all rets on my server for the last “season” (or however warcraftlogs does it.)
Is it because I’m super good at the game? Is it because I used every single consumable? No, it’s because I got lucky with procs and crits, and the fight was short.
Fight length in particular is a huge one - the smaller the time frame, the less “consistent” things like crits and procs will be. A 10% proc effect with a 20 second debuff will register as 100% uptime if the fight is 20 seconds; that’s how huge of a role fight length plays in parsing, and why those so invested in parsing aim to get raid kill times as short as possible.
That is the flaw with warcraftlogs and classic; unlike retail, where fights are average 5-7 minutes unless overgearing it, the short fights of classic in addition to so many “background variables” make parsing kind of null in its objectivity in determining if a particular player is very good or not.
I’m sure I could easily buff my parses if I bribed a disc priest into putting PI on me, but why would I do that? What benefit does it really serve in the long term other than having my name higher on a leaderboard? None at all.
Take classic parses with an ounce of skepticism, or better yet, read them in detail to search for context as to why so-and-so is doing so well or so poor. Often times it’s things outside of their control.
It may sound funny, but your personal DPS will go up if others are doing better. You can do absolutely nothing different and perform better if others are performing better.
The faster a boss dies, the larger percentage of a fight you will be in Adrenaline Rush…meaning your DPS will be absurdly high for a larger percentage of the overall fight.