#How do I read this?
ionic ibex
in my experience the AI stuff is usually a season or two out of date, and it genuinely can't do time-math (such as cooldown assessment, stacks, etc). Be really cautious of taking advice from it because the publicly-available information that the AI uses is rapidly outdated and is both inaccurate and very misleading.
Looking over your logs, it appears like you're comparing your own logs against itself, so I can see how this got confusing really quickly. We're here to help, so I appreciate you posting here so that we can get you pointed in the right direction.
The big issue here is that you're a relatively fresh character, so your item level is significantly lower than most Arms Warriors. This isn't a bad thing, it just means the "compare" should be avoided for now. There's only 3 people in the past 2 weeks that have similar item level to you who also killed Normal Dimensius. So you're the "top player" for your item level range, meaning you're the best of 3 people. When your sample-size is this small, it's not very useful. You can increase the "item level range" setting from "2" to "5" (or higher) and you'll likely get much better insights.
For example, when I alter the "item level range" setting, we can quickly find people doing almost 2x your DPS, even though they only have 0.8% more item-level than you, seen here:
but let's not worry about item-level comparison, because 690(ish) is considered pretty under-geared, which makes the data not supeful useful. Instead, I'll just audit your chracter directly and find some insights for you!
One of the biggest issues is that your opener has almost no casts happening. In order to get high "DPS" you need to follow what's called the "ABCs" or "Always Be Casting". Looking over your opening 15 seconds, you only cast 7 spells. For comparison, most players are casting 12-15 spells in this same time. You can see a side-by-side comparison to help demonstrate can be seen below. You're the first image, while a different Normal Dimensius parse is shown in the second image.
This stark difference in the frequency of your casts will lead to a huge loss in damage during the opening moments of your fight, leading to lower DPS overall. Your opener is crucial to getting high DPS, but you're missing Rend, Bladestorm, Stat Potion, and other necessary spells that Arms relies on to do damage. You're also playing Colossus on Dimensius instead of Slayer, which only 7% of people do. Dimensius is much better suited for Slayer, so I'd recommend using that hero talent tree instead. Please check out the Arms Warrior Opening Rotation on wowhead to learn how to boost your damage significantly.
There's some other small things, like I see you're running SkullSplitter (talent), which almost no players run. Even out of the 7% of Colossus players, only 6% of that 7% (or less than 1%) of players use that talent. Just change it to to another point in BloodBorne and you're likely going to perform better.
The more I'm looking at your logs, the more I'm seeing a lot of a lot of missing things, and instead of overloading you with information** i would encourage you to focus on the basics:**
- Check out the opening rotation (linked above) and learn that
- Get gear. Run delves, do mythic+ keys, upgrade your gear with crests, craft items.
- Keep Rend up at all times, it falls off often throughout your logs (including during the opening). Rend is a boring spell, but does the most DPS per rage, so just make sure it's applied.
- Eat food, drink a flask, and enchant your gear (even with the cheap stuff).
craggy bluff
The more I'm looking at your logs, the more I'm seeing a lot of a lot of missing...
Thabk you so much for this info, 😅 I...think it probably would be better to look on youtube later on other tips for reading logs. I didnt want to waste money on enchants and consumables yet because i was going to replace the pieces fast. But last night i learned ethereal voidsplinters can be used to transform gear into set pieces.
I promptly replaced most of it after finding out so thats sort of taken care of.
Uhh as for the opener, yeah im still working on it u.u. Im gonna spend some time on the dummy trying to get it nailed down 12 skills is actually a very solid number!
I thought colossus would be good for the fight because i couldnt trust people with adds
I mean i was running with pugs. Maybe its time i join a guild?
Also for the dimensius fight and logging im honeslty confused as to what I the warrior should be doing. Because during the fight you know it shows i didnt keep up rend but thats because i went to the adds and focused them instead.
In general....should i even be doing this because like for phase 1 i would focus the add closest to dim but then move to the back one if I see that it's alive thats where the rend falling off thing occurs.... or idk
Or is it that rend is tracked in warcraft logs irregardless of the target. So like it doesnt matter if i put rend.