Sunday, January 19, 2014

Iron Juggernaut 10 N

An off night can be frustrating. Let's not let it get under our skin. Instead, let's look at the objective information we have on hand, evaluate it and act on it.

Comparing the logs from January 4th, January 11th (one-shot kill), and January 18th (log ending 19th), we are able to see several objective pieces of data:

Damage Taken Per Second was less on the 18th than on the 11th:
  • Jan 4th: 305k-339k (link)
  • Jan 11th: 288k (link)
  • Jan 18th: 236k-255k (link)
Damage Done Per Second was more on the 18th than on the 11th:
  • Jan 4th: 796k-1,054k (link)
  • Jan 11th: 935k (link)
  • Jan 18th: 781k-952k (link)
 Healing Per Second was less on the 18th than on the 11th:
  • Jan 4th: 304k-358k (link)
  • Jan 11th: 363k (link)
  • Jan 18th: 266k-309k (link)

 WHERE:

DTPS was lower (good) AND
DPS was higher (good) AND
HPS was significantly lower (bad)

THEREFORE healing is the first place to look more closely. Let's take a closer look at the stats for each boss in each raid night: Jan 4th, Jan 11th, Jan 18th:


What jumps out immediately (beyond the lower numbers on the 18th) is that while Morph's and Kim's healing went UP in HPS on the 18th, their HPS(e) went DOWN compared to both previous raid nights and created a much larger gap between healing and effective healing than gaps in the previous nights.

Morph experienced a +4k gain in HPS but a -29k loss in HPS(e) comparing 11th and 18th.
Kim experienced a +3k gain in HPS but a -16k loss in HPS(e) comparing 11th to 18th.

It's premature to draw conclusions, however we have to observe that the 18th was the first night that we had two pally healers and in the back of my mind I am starting to wonder if that impacted the HPS(e) of Morph and Kim.

What we can definitely conclude, is that contrary to subjective perception that we were taking more damage, we were not in fact taking more. Our DTPS was actually lower than in the previous raid nights.

We should examine more closely WHY our overall HPS went down although two of our healers saw HPS gains and we should examine why our HPS(e) took a nose dive on two of our healers while the overall HPS(e) for the 18th stay within acceptable range of the HPS.

Hopefully this helps and will get us back on track with a game plan.

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