#Min-maxing and getting that last bit (heroic mode)

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vapid idol
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Hello, usually I am quite happy with my performance in raid. I am doing something like 95+ parse %ilvl but that is assuming that my overall gear is rather mid/high (this season I was around 478), and so the overall parse % is more around 90.
Now that I jumped to 482, my parses reversed, I am at 95%+ overall but dropped to 90- for ilvl%

I would like help to review my logs to see how I can increase my perf. I wonder if my jump in ilvl is making me compete with big pumper that are way over my level or are they part of a guild allowing some padding?
For example, I can see that Tindral and Gnarlroot fight is heavy on Explosive Shot use. On the other hand, Nymue being a ST fight has not room for padding and yet I am falling behind.

I am pretty sure I have things to learn and habits to lose in order to improve further the mastery of my character.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/GXxL9jfART4qMaHC#fight=1&type=damage-done
Many thanks for the help.

vapid idol
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bump

lean sail
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I won't help on the surv departement cause i dont play it, but as a future reference you can safely always ignore ilvl% Parse they suck. I'll take you're Heroic Gnarloot log you just linked as an exemple :

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You said your 90% ilvl parse, in 10.2 when this fight was log, that was against 605 other survival hunter in your ilvl bracket. So you played better than 545 other survival hunter

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Now your 95% overall parse was against 4050 other survival hunter, which mean you played better than 3848 other hunter.

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Which sound better explained that way now 😉

vapid idol
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Thanks for your reply. I overstated parses as reference. What I meant is that, eventhough I am happy with my perf in Raid compared to other people in my guild or just overall managing mechanics, I can see some room for improvement.
For example, when I am quite happy with my perf I can see top players doing way better, like 30/40k extra.
I would like to investigate this difference and what they do to see where I have to improve to get those extra k dps.

lean sail
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Oh yeah for sure i wasn't saying you shouldn't improve, i just said i can't help on the Surv departement cause i don't play it just wanted to correct the ilvl % parse mentality 😄

crystal coyote
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Kill times, externals, group comp etc all contribute to those extra 30-40k

vapid idol
fathom panther
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(it's rhetorical I know you aren't)

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You used CA twice in this fight but only got 2 killshot empowerments out of it

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you need ruthless marauder. Quickshot and sweeping spear should go into RM

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Used flanking during CA which you don't need to do. You should have enough focus between KC on reds and bombs to not need to

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lot of focus being wasted. Despite fote resets being juicy we still want to avoid slamming KC at full focus

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little thing slike this
You're at 85 focus, you mb down to 50, and then red bomb, followed by another mb

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when you could just dump your focus down then red then KC back to (almost) full

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85->50->57.5->27.5->35->5->bomb

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I'd also suggest macroing my'das to death chakrams

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it buffs mydas

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and you can have DC with every mydas

vapid idol
# fathom panther (it's rhetorical I know you aren't)

Well I am happy you saw that because I am using the macro ^^. I can't do the same filter as you did, when I do Events -> Casts | I can't see the apply buff and remove buffs (but maybe this try was better: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/NzL748aTxK6YHJwh#fight=1&type=casts&source=9&view=events)

Used flanking during CA which you don't need to do. You should have enough focus between KC on reds and bombs to not need to Duely noted, I will be more careful on that part.

when you could just dump your focus down then red then KC back to (almost) full
85->50->57.5->27.5->35->5->bomb --> This one is partly due to the fact that I was "trained" under the "no KS spamming" or "no MB spammin" to avoid focus waste or focus depletion ^^. But I will look how to better manage my red window.

I'd also suggest macroing my'das to death chakrams that one I did not do. I think the first Chakram at pull buff my first Mydas use but then after I lose total track of it. Thanks for the advice.
And thanks for the full review also.

vapid idol
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ok for the first bleeding gash, I got it. I just did not pay attention if my pet ability was off CD before entering CD, so I did Bombs drop -> CA -> KS but the macro did not land the Claw because it was still on CD. It happens quite regularly on my logs. I am happy you found out. Big thanks.

fathom panther
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You might also be going bomb then spamming ks

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Which in larger bosses the bomb will be airborne and you make the empower go up before your bomb has hit which then consumes it before killshot is able to fire. They are consumed on hit rather than on ability use so you can mess yourself up by being really spammy which is hard during lust because you kind of need to be really spammy to not drop gcds.

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Volcoross is really bad for that. I actually completely avoid CA on volcoross for that reason. The travel time on bombs is like a full gcd it's wack.

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If you wanna set that filter go into buffs, click the + on the blue CA buff then click into casts and change it to timelinr

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I'm sure it can just be set with the filter builder but idk the syntax

vapid idol
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Does this mean I missed the second empower? I wonder why. It seems I clawed then got the buff but lost it before throwing the KS all that inside the same second (18)

fathom panther
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you can check on damage done, click into CA and look at your bleeding gash ticks

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you should have 3 for every killshot

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Volcoross is super fucky. He's so far away your bomb takes forever to hit

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so if you throw a bomb then killshot

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you're gunna empower the bomb

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it just takes so long for the bomb to travel, and then KS also has travel time

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I recommend just not playing CA on volcoross if you don't wanna deal with that headache