Magnus Carlson is a legendary chess player. It isn’t fair his brain works better than mine. It also isn’t fair that he has/had access to many great minds to help coach and work with him when he was younger too and I didn’t.
People exploiting WCL for parses with stacked groups/scenarios is no more or less fair than FPS players getting top of the line tech from sponsors to go and crush newbs like me who have only a basic keyboard and mouse or legendary chess players who have gotten to spend their life memorizing every known chess strat that exists and can pick apart any given line and see the potential blunders and plays vs someone who just knows how all the pieces work.
Parsing actually means to read data.
So the common usage is fight data organized into readable graphs. And on the website they are posted you can do compare analysis to others with similar metrics.
Nah lots of people use parses already to improve. This is just Blizzard bringing an already existing feature in house like they did with IO scores. If you don’t like it you can just not check your parses just like you can ignore your IO score.
There is no point in the game at which one cannot look at one’s own performance and find ways to improve. Now, you might have an argument in saying that for average WoW players, they do not know how to read logs in a way that can help them improve, that is true. Raid/class leaders should be able to, however, and should not mind sitting down with their raiders to go over logs and provide feedback for improvement.
Skewed argument.
I can pick up any fps game (as long as there isn’t dumb RPG grinding elements to them) and get max rank in a day if i want to, and i can do that with a ball mouse too mind you.
Meanwhile i can know my class 100% and get a whack 75% parse because everyone above me is getting a priest pet using PI on their burst windows, they lucked out on gear, their stats are better, they grinded more etc.
Its terrible on a competitive point of view.
Also, good luck getting consistent 90% parses while pugging.
If kill times aren’t right and people mess up your padding, you’re toast in the logs.
Also? playing in the wrong week , behind the gearing curve by a week? have fun parsing too.
A log that was sure a 99% with my current ilvl one week ago becomes a low purple in a week.
Absolutely. So long as it comes along with mandatory training regarding reading logs beyond what color the number is… logs are a fantastic tool, and you’re very naive thinking that players en masses will use that tool correctly or appropriately. Not to mention the degenerate play it encourages…
Your best heroic raider is often your worst mythic raider…
I don’t trust Blizzard to have the information that I want out of such system nor them to understand it. It’s best to just leave it with the folks running Warcraft Logs, Raider.IO, WoWAnalyzer, and so on than in the hands of Activision Blizzard.
Dude. Nobody is looking at a 395 toon’s parse being purple instead of yellow and soyjaking out over it. Get a grip real quick. ilvl parse is an irrelevant stat, sure, but it’s not like it’s something literally nobody looks at, and it’s not like it’s completely doomed to be irrelevant forever if there’s a larger sample size of those lower ilvl parses (from players who are less competitively inclined having their data logged, rather than having it tossed into the void) after the first week or two of progression.
