Quickstart guide for setting up a reminder for Tyrande’s Favorite Doll using Power Auras. Create the first effect to track the mana gained buff. There is no need to adjust any of the aura visuals here as you won’t see this effect. The effect should be activated by Buff with the name Recaptured Mana, and [...]

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 while [...]

Introduction to Holy Paladin Healing in 3.2/3.3 Spec Base Holy tree looks something like this talent tree Points in Imp Wis and Bless Hands can be moved about if you’d prefer Then either go 17 points into Prot for Divine Guardian, or 20 points into Ret for Crit + Run Speed Glyphs Glyph of Holy [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]