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 [...]

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 [...]