***Carnage Combat Logs - And how to use them

Direct Link to our Combat Logs: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

If you are not familiar with this website you should learn how to use it. It is a valuable tool that we use to evaluate peoples performance. These logs basically turn the in-game battlelogs into a more organized spreadsheet where you can look at dps, hps, damage taken, healing output, overhealing, raw healing, effective dps, active time, and so on. Not only does it do this, but almost every raiding guild that is on wow, uploads their logs to this website, which allows us to compare ourselves to everyone else who plays this game, down to the specifics; such as how your performance as a Rogue/Assassination compare to all other Rogue/Assassination on the same exact fight.


Tutorial
When you go to the above link you are lead to the most recent calendar of our raids.
Clicking a certain link will lead you to the combat logs of that raid. Select one of logs for a certain date.
The first page you see after the link is basically a summary of the entire raid, all bosses+trash included, which is not that helpful or informative.
The above menu should read Dashboard, Full Report, Players, Creatures. Hover over Dashboard and you should see a dropdown menu where you can select to view specific information such as Damage Taken, HPS, DPS, Survivability, Ranking info and so on. Select what you want to look at.
Next hover over full report and a dropdown menu appears that allows you to chose a certain fight to look at, you can look at kills to see how you did, or wipes to see what went wrong.
When you hover over players and select a certain player to look at for that certain fight it focuses on that specific player, which is basically like a more in-depth recount. It will tell you what abilities they used, what boss abilities they took damage from and percentages.

Evaluate yourself as a player
example link: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Go to the above link to view our combat logs.
Select a certain date, click the link for that raid.
Hover over Dashboard on the menu bar to get a dropdown list -> select Ranking Info
note: Healers take rankings with a grain of salt, usually logs are skewed due to amount of healers, healer makeup and healer duty.

These are tables of our kills on all the bosses we downed that day.
It shows HPS, DPS, and compares you to everyone of your spec and class on that specific fight.
The Rank limit column means that is how much DPS or HPS the 200th player in the world did on that specific fight (Normal and heroic encounters are separate)
The % of limit means how close you are to that 200th player, and getting a 100% or higher means you are a top 200 ranked player of your class and spec on that specific fight.
Keep in mind thousands of players are included in these rankings, and only boss kills count towards rankings.
The higher your % of limit is the better your performance is, generally if you have full 346+ gear you should be performing at the LEAST 60-70% of your limit (on normal), because most people who are full epic geared are generally doing heroic encounters and are no longer making rankings on normal encounters.


How you can use this: Look at specific fights across the board and see what your % of limit is, if they are all high (80%+) across the board and around the same percentages, then you're doing good.

If they are all low across the board (below 60%) then there honestly isn't any good answer for this: 1. You suck, 2. You need better internet. We only invite people to raids who have the gear to perform above average.

If youre % of limits are skewed, say you have a 93% on Atramedes, but only a 77% on Maloriak, this means you are doing something wrong on Maloriak which can be several things: 1. You died or were inactive sometime during the fight 2. You had a certain job that lowers dps such as interrupt duty etc. or 3. You are DPSing the fight wrong (ex: Cooldowns not used at opportune movements, AOE, Too much unecessary movement on your part*)

If you are able to perform above 90% on a certain fight, then you should be able to perform at the same % across the board, look at the fights you need improvement on, and view the logs for that specific fight, see what you did wrong, ask questions, look more into the fight.


Cliffnotes: worldoflogs, learn to use it, if you suck get better, if you dont care that you suck then GTFO.