WorldofLogs.com – A Parse of the Combat Log Parser, Part 2

Part 2 – In Which Your Entire Raid is Full of Goldfish

Let’s face it. The average guild will have those people who consistently DIAF.

On Thorim, I like to call these people Goldfish. They can’t run out of Lightning Charge. Not only can they not run out of Lightning Charge, they seem to run towards the shiny, little line of lightning on the ground before the cone actually hits.

This part is relatively quick and won’t require log browsing as the finding out who couldn’t stop hitting the Snaplasher. This won’t give you a list of just people who died to Lightning Charge either, but also those who got hit and survived (way to waste healers’ mana nubs).

1. Find someone who died to Lightning Charge.

This part is easy peasy. Open up your combat log. Go to all Thorim fights and just click on “Death Overview.” Someone will have died to Lightning Charge. Someone always does:

Notice the highlight on the words, “Lightning Charge.” I used my browser’s word search to find the spell on the page.

2. Get the list of everyone who was hit.

Now we get a list of everyone and everything who was hit by Lightning Charge:

I’ve blurred out all player names but my own to save my guildies’ dignity. Mine is expendable. They’ll thank me for it. One day.

Look at the first column under the “Hits” header. This is where you can gnash your teeth on the side rails of the failboat.

The problem here is you don’t know who was hit to expedite a wipe. There’s no faster way to wipe Thorim than to stand in the Lightning Charge (waiting for him to whack you is like asking a kid to share candy – FUTILE – or takes an unreasonably long amount of time).

You can always take time of each death due to Lightning Charge and go back to the graph of each fight and see who’s dying towards the end but even then, it’s not quite as accurate as live fail reporting during/after the fight and that is much more fun than looking at log parses after the fact.

I’m watching you.

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