Integrate a Warcraft Logs System Into WoW

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Having an official parsing system in game would be a great motivation for a lot of people to get better. You could include dummy parses too so people could practice outside of raids. It would also be very useful when building a group so you can assemble the best team possible.

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lol

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That would help a lot, mainly because the WCL companion app can be so annoying. Trying to look at dungeon logs and having it default to points over damage/healing or whatever you set it at last is mean. And the overlay doesn’t hide when you hide the UI (alt+z) for screenshots.

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? /10 char

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The assumptions people come up with. lol

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On the contrary, bad players often really like NOT having to look at logs. If it’s part of the game it’s harder to make excuses.

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HARD disagree
if i have learned anything in my time in wow it is that people will use any metric or measure they can get a hold of as an excuse to berate other players

so all it would be is another excuse players to tell other players how bad they are and that does not help anyone improve. telling someone who already knows how bad they are that they are bad is not helping.

parses are also only really useful for the very top percentile of players, and that isnt you or me or most of us here on the forums or most of the playerbase.

when i see semi casual guilds posting their parses in NORMAL raids i just facepalm.

so what would actually help players get better? well first off the players would have to want to get better in the first place and a lot of players do not want to put in the effort to simply google, which is easy, but dont underestimate how lazy people are

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Negative. You’d just hit “decline” and that would be all.

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I’ve tried understanding parsing by asking the simple question to anyone who mentioned ‘parsing’, “what is a parse?”.

Could never get an answer. Maybe I didn’t understand the question I was asking. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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A parse is how well you performed vs everyone else who plays your class :slight_smile:

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It parses your combat log and analyzes it to give you stats about how well you played in a boss fight or dungeon.

After turning on advanced combat logging in settings and typing in “/combatlog” before a raid boss or dungeon run, you upload your logs (which contain parses, when uploaded) to the WarcraftLogs Uploader. Then you view your performance on the warcraftlogs website.

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I don’t see why a level 27 character is worried about a parsing feature.

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Maybe cus I’m secretly not level 27, oh but we will just go along with the level 27 arguement.

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So it’s just my actions against a particular boss, compared to others of the same class, which creates a parsing score?

So ‘parsing’ is all the individual actions I take as a whole?

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The level is irrelevant. The idea is still good.

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That’s honestly sort of bs, you might mean well. But for normal and heroic raids , it’s helped many of my former guild mates. To see where they were messing up so they could improve their DPS…to see what they were casting and not casting

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Bingo. People seem to be so afraid of facts and raw information these days.

If you’re bad, you’re bad - seeing WHY you’re bad will help you get better.

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training dummys are far different than a boss fight, few modern fights let you just stand there and attack. Just like patchwerk sims, you wont realistically perform that well in a real encounter. 99% of people would disregard “dummy parse”, probably with some snarky “it’s for dummys” response.

being the best at hitting a training dummy doesn’t mean you’ll be the best at hitting raz

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You’re looking at a mirror too while you posting that or?

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