I'm dropping mage, despite enjoying it

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https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/area-52/kikoneko?zone=38&spec=Shadow&class=Priest&bybracket=1

93, my bad. I thought it was higher.

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/area-52/kikoneko?zone=38&spec=Shadow&class=Priest&bybracket=1

DH wasn’t as good as I thought I guess.

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/area-52/yuineko?difficulty=3&bybracket=1

Was probably thinking of my war?

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/area-52/ryukoneko?zone=42

Here’s my old evoker too.

I do a lot better in raids. :man_shrugging:

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You literally grey parsed by ilvl which means you were carried by gear and were making major major rotational mistakes.

Your evoker is the “best one” and its barely above average in heroic.

Honestly not really.

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No, I gray parsed when NOT sorted by ilvl. I gave you the sorted link.

Again, that’s what “&bybracket=1” means.

I gave you the sorted link for every other class except my evoker, because my ilvl parse goes down for some reason on my evoker? xD

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bro why would u ever want to play this.

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Because I find it fun.

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No one looks at a link and assumes its by ilvl.

Even then its still not great

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93 is, by definition, great.

And my warrior averages about 80, which is above upper quartile.

My evoker is (was) also averaging upper quartile.

:thinking:

(Ignore my brain fart before I edited)

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it just makes no sense, your taking a capstone you cannot control. like hyperthermia is just going to trigger randomly so you are going to get instances where it never triggers or it triggers on pulls where you don’t really need it ect. why do this in m+?

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The tier set bonus for pyroblasts when we glacial spike is so thematically amazing. I really hope they bake it into the 81-90 hero talents.

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It’s not about needing it. I just find it more fun. I enjoy RNG, and I enjoy managing resources and stacks and whatnot.

And if it was within 10% DPS of the meta build, I’d continue playing it. But it’s more than 30% behind, so I’m not going to troll people with it anymore. Just goinna find a new class.

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Ehh

If youre a good player especially at lower ilvls your parses should be mid to high 90s.

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/area-52/snozex?bybracket=1&difficulty=4

Warrior is very easy to play. and its in normal.

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/area-52/snozsmash?bybracket=1

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It was the beginning of the season, or for my priest the beginning of S1. :thinking:

I didn’t have all the catch up gear and extra damage for no reason (belt, ring, corruptions, etc.) boosting my parse comparatively.

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Hey
Sorry for silly question.

Could you please expand on that notion, so he got 97 by item level and 17 overall compared to everyone?

I just looked at my own logs and dont see nearly such a difference. What would cause such a big difference between item level and overall? Is there something Im not doing?

Drrdead-Nerzhul (Priest)
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/nerzhul/drrdead

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its a meme though, you’re comparing yourself to people that don’t know how to play their spec for most the players.

for emphasis: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/moon-guard/kaslyia?zone=38&bybracket=1&difficulty=4

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It’s because my priest had basically no gear. So people who actually did have gear were doing astronomically more damage than me, but for my item level bracket (I think it’s +/- 3 ilvl?) I was doing well.

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Dude.
Yesterday you made a thread where you were saying how fun Fire was and you settled on Mage, and then later in that thread some people were making fun of you about how long it’ll last and how you constantly reroll and let everyone know and how you had like a 2 hour Arms Warrior main phase

I thought they were just being mean tbh and didnt like you…

But wow. Just wow. They were spot on lol

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Gotcha,
Thanks for the clarification

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This is also part of it though.

And I’d stick with the mage if I didn’t figure out I was doing 35% less DPS. 15% less I can live with. But 35% is just too big a burden.

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No question is too silly.

When you look at logs theres a tab to click by ilvl or by overall. The location is the three sword looking image thats underneath the raid/mythic season.

The overall log is compared against everyone at all ilvls for that key or raid boss.
The ilvl bracket restricts your comparison to agaisnt people with the same ilvl in a bracket of three. Example being by warrior is 626 so I am compared to everyone in the 625/626/627 ilvl bracket range

If you have a low overall parse but a high ilvl parse it means you are doing good rotationally but your gear is holding you back

If you have a high overall but a low ilvl then you are being carried by gear and making rotional mistakes.

Ideally you want your overall and ilvl to be as close as possible

So healing logs are a lot different than DPS logs. Especially in heroic because it requires your raid group to be bad in order to get a good parse. Healing parses are tough to gauge.

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Typically means they aren’t competing with anyone at that ilvl. Normally the skilled players have higher ilvls so with a low ilvl they are a slightly bigger fish in a small pond. Think of flexing you were 2nd place at a friendly birthday party Smash Bros tournament where everyone else was drunk and fell off the stage cause they don’t know how to play

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