February 16th logs:

TotGC-
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/cpkt97xshvfp6eks/

TotC-
Unavailable to be used, corrupted data for whatever reason.

Patchwerk(plus sapph and kt)-
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/s907ylrdeeub0a7w/

Sooo...how do we get something useful out of these combat logs?  To me it just seems to be so much raw data...is there a trick to getting something useful out of these?  Things in specific that we should be looking for?

At an even more basic level, look at what other people were doing of your same class, or similar classes. For DPS this can be a bit easier, but for healers it gets a bit tricker. Anyway, if at the top you change the Dashboard to "Healing Done" and look at the Marrowgar kill:

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/jv699x18wf0xa5n6/sum/healingDone/?s=2050&e=2351

Below the graph I believe by default it has our priests and Ynnah turned on, as well as Total at the very bottom of the list. Turn off Ynnah and the Totals, to leave the graph at just Innarrah and Reddon. You can see that overall, I'm outperforming you on raw heals/absorbs. If it was just a spellpower issue, then I'd merely be hovering above you throughout the fight. However, there are a few times where I spike WAY up. Why is that?

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Another thing to look at is our spell casts. Click the below links, and look at the Healing By Spell tab.

Innarrah: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/jv699x18wf0xa5n6/details/11/?s=2050&e=2351
Reddon: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/jv699x18wf0xa5n6/details/26/?s=2050&e=2351

If you look at the Direct Heals column (the sum of regular Hit and the Crit columns), you can see that I cast something about 25% more than you did. Though I have more crit, you have more haste and spellpower, so I don't think a difference in healing is due to our stats. This sheet makes me think it's due mainly to activity.

A closer look shows that I have a Divine Hymn cast while you don't, so that jacks my numbers up. However, I also have about 15 more shield casts than you; and as we've talked about, that's something you're working on. On the flip side, you have almost 50% more Prayer of Mending jumps than I do--proof that you know how2priest, while I get so busy shield spamming that I forget to use our most powerful heal...

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Finally, the best thing to do would be ta match up the graphs with the actual Marrowgar fight. Remember those areas on the graph where my healing skyrockets? One of those will be my divine hymn, but what about the others? Well, if those spikes are during the normal phase of the fight, then there is not a real problem. Yes, you could do more healing by tossing some renews or shields on the raid... but as last night proved, tanks fall over easily unless their healers are really on the ball. Asking you to do anything OTHER than watch the tanks is dangerous. ((Make no mistake, I'd like to do Marrowgar with 4 healers eventually, and so the tank healers WILL have to help in raid too. But that's down the road))

However, if those spikes in HPS are during the Bone Storm phase... well, then we need to talk, because what those spikes show are me really pumping out the heals, and you... not. But without matching the graphs, how can we know?

If I tell you to pump more heals, but those spikes are in phase 1... then I have basically told you to let tanks die. But if I say "she's a tank healer, she's fine" but those spikes are during phase 2.... then I'm allowing you to be lazy and hurting the raid.

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So. THAT is how you use the logs for analysis, at least at a very basic level. I myself am remarkably noob at using them and still learning, but these are the simple things we can begin doing.

P.S. As a side note, try comparing the fight graph, not between priests, but between tank healers. Turn Reddon off, and turn on the graph of Innarrah and Runiccharm. See how in sync the tank healers are, or think about reasons why they might be alternating effectiveness.

I like this discussion.

It's also good to see things like time on Target for dps, and figure out who is slacking where. More when I'm home.

Holy Nova: Yes. Yes, it has. You, me, and basically every geared heal priest suffers from this. Let me give you a hint, though.

• For Disc priests, shields proc Borrowed Time
• Borrowed Time not only increases spell haste, but reduces the global cooldown
• Borrowed Time is not consumed by Shield, Renew, Holy Nova(!), Prayer of Mending, or oddly enough, Penance casts.

Conclusion: For heroics, you can get off even MORE Holy Novas, if you practice at keeping Borrowed Time up. It lasts 5 seconds, unless you consume it with a Flash Heal or Prayer of Healing cast. Practice at 'feeling' whether you have BTime up or not. Once you're aware of it, the difference in the global cooldown is highly noticeable. That's a good skill for raids, because it provides a lower bound on your shielding. If you're actively working to keep Borrowed Time up, then by default you are going to be shielding more actively.

This is especially true for tank healing, where you have to use Flash Heals because you can only Shield, Renew, and Penance them so much. To proc Borrowed Time again, you'll shield a random raid member.

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You don't see the graphs? Let's talk on Vent after raid tonight or sometime over the weekend, huh? It's something we should figure out. But, to answer your question, "How do we match the graph with the phases of the fight?"...

You or someone else takes notes using a stopwatch during the fight. -_-;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aULC3agqcnA

combat log how-to

Lexxe you going to run these for 10 man?