03-06-2006, 10:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-06-2006, 10:21 AM by NotSoDarklord.)
The problems with this that I am aware of are as follows:
First off is the performance issue. Mods that parse the combat log are a pretty ridiculous resource drain. For this mod to work it would have to look through every heal every dot every direct damage skill every white damage attack and so on and so forth... a lot of data. With my own combat log on during 40 man raids set to just show my own damage out the spam can get hefty... that X40 seems very problematic.
The other part of this is the added "quirk" that most bosses seem to have. In BWL the drakes shed aggro with wing buffet, broodlord reduces aggro (temporarily?) with his blastwave and so on and so forth. Bosses tend to have some variable that gets thrown into the mix that would mess up the simpler aggro trackers (and it does, such mods have been created before, but were mostly abandoned as useless since they did not track aggro reduction due to knockbacks and such.)
Hate values have been figured out for the most part, though this was the biggest problem early on in the raiding game "How are you getting those values, you're just guessing! etc"
Mods such as these have been attempted before though. I remember when Elitist Jerks from Mal'ganis let their own hate tracking mod slip and the resulting uproar from the community that such a mod existed and was kept hush hush for quite some time. I don't see what would stop anyone from making a mod like EJ did, especially now that exact values for threat moves have been determined, what I do not see however is what incentive a mod creator would have to release it to the general public, especially if this person was from a premier raiding guild.
First off is the performance issue. Mods that parse the combat log are a pretty ridiculous resource drain. For this mod to work it would have to look through every heal every dot every direct damage skill every white damage attack and so on and so forth... a lot of data. With my own combat log on during 40 man raids set to just show my own damage out the spam can get hefty... that X40 seems very problematic.
The other part of this is the added "quirk" that most bosses seem to have. In BWL the drakes shed aggro with wing buffet, broodlord reduces aggro (temporarily?) with his blastwave and so on and so forth. Bosses tend to have some variable that gets thrown into the mix that would mess up the simpler aggro trackers (and it does, such mods have been created before, but were mostly abandoned as useless since they did not track aggro reduction due to knockbacks and such.)
Hate values have been figured out for the most part, though this was the biggest problem early on in the raiding game "How are you getting those values, you're just guessing! etc"
Mods such as these have been attempted before though. I remember when Elitist Jerks from Mal'ganis let their own hate tracking mod slip and the resulting uproar from the community that such a mod existed and was kept hush hush for quite some time. I don't see what would stop anyone from making a mod like EJ did, especially now that exact values for threat moves have been determined, what I do not see however is what incentive a mod creator would have to release it to the general public, especially if this person was from a premier raiding guild.
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