I been wanting to look in the effectiveness of the 20% raid wall granted by Divine Guardian (4th tier talent in a Paladin’s protection tree). To do this I wrote a very simple Python program to read the combat log, detect with DG goes up and then record all the damage that was taken [...]

Something quick I whipped up last night, after noticing that after my log file was > 4GB the WorldOfLogs parser will no longer do real time logging.
Edit: Turns out that the WoW client itself stopped logging, even though the log file was a little over expected limit (4,334,806,196 bytes)
Note: The code is just a one [...]

That Just Happened is a simple bu very useful WoW addon that allows you report when certain events happen, like Guardian Spirit on someone, or when a Polymorph breaks.
Below are the rules I currently use:
event;source;target;spellname;affiliation;channel;spam
SPELL_AURA_APPLIED;;;Hand of Salvation;;RAID;Hand of Salvation on *target (*source)
SPELL_AURA_APPLIED;;;Hand of Sacrifice;;RW;Hand of Sacrifice on *target (*source)
SPELL_AURA_APPLIED;;;Guardian Spirit;;RW;Guardian Spirit on *target (*source)
SPELL_AURA_APPLIED;;;Shield Wall;;RW;Shield [...]

After much more fun with General Vezax on 25 this week, I thought I would make a small note about the spec I swapped to for this fight.
The basic spec is 28/43/0 which gives up most of our normal healing tools (no shock, no beacon, no bonus crit from the Retribution tree, etc) for Touched [...]

I’m not sure how correct this is, but I thought it would be fun to compared how much Sacred Shield can absorb against a regular source of raid damage (in this case Sapphiron’s frost aura in Naxx25)
The mechanics of SS is a little strange, best to read up on the skill on WoWHead, or WoWWiki

Each [...]

Divine Plea is one of a Holy Paladins two main sources of mana regen (along with illumination). The spell is on a one minute cool down and returns 25% of your total (maximum) mana over 15 seconds while reducing healing done by 20%. Because the spell is based off total mana, it scales [...]

Think I’m getting the hang of this Kara thing. Damage stats for Prince:

Character
Damage
DPS
Comment

Ardren
271565 (23.8%)
863.2
Fire Mage (Me!)

Sormoran
189466 (16.6%)
577.4
Shadow Priest

Quickcrit
180886 (15.8%)
541.5
Hunter

Umparevoker
174769 (15.3%)
533.9
Combat Rogue

Llonjudd
160488 (14.1%)
549.7
Warlock

Taeghas
87207 (7.6%)
255.4
Prot Warrior (Main Tank)

Noobjuicer
73363 (6.4%)
248.6
Prot Warrior

This sounds like a fun project: Extract all the data out of recount (WoW addon) and present it as a webpage.
Updated with next weeks damage. Looks [...]

I’m not allowed to complain about raiding any more.
Went to Zul’Aman a couple of weeks back, after a few tries took down the first boss, and then a couple of tries on the second boss, but things didn’t go so well (I kinda wiped the raid). Also did a Kara run with 7 guildies [...]

Can’t have a post about PHP at the top of the page for more that an couple of days. So on with the WoW gloating and moaning.

Karazhan — Nothing at all to report. Haven’t run for weeks, no one seems interested (two that were interested left yesterday. Kara group one leader, and Kara [...]

Yep, another WoW post.

Karazhan is still at exactly the same place it was last time… That is pretty embarrassing
I’ve respec’d yet again. Now 10/48/3 Fire
My health and mana are now tiny, at 6463/7166 unbuffed
Spell damage is now: +885 fire unbuffed (Including Wrath of Spellfire Set bonus)
I think most impressively upgrade is my [...]