The Thrill Of The Wild: Reading Logs: DoT Snapshoting and Proc Stacking

In a couple articles on this blog, I've gone over the importance of stacking on-use abilities like Rabid or Bestial Wrath each other and with trinket proc's, as well as the importance of refreshing DoTs while your trinkets are proc'ed. These are great ways to get that extra bit of DPS that can help you pull ahead of the crowd.

What I didn't cover is how to review your play, and see how well you've done at these two tasks. This will also be applicable to any raid leaders out there who are looking to either give their hunters a little boost, or go over the logs of potential new recruits.

To do this we're going to pull our logs up World of Logs. Choose the fight you're interested in and then on the drop down menu where it would normally say "Details for PlayerX", choose expression editor.

Jump through the break for the rest.

In the query box, for a BM Hunter with Ticking Ebon Detonator and AoC, add the following:

sourceName="<Player Name Here>"

and

(

(fullType=SPELL_CAST_START or fullType=SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS)

(spell = "Bestial Wrath") and fullType = SPELL_AURA_APPLIED and targetType = "Player"

(spell = "Restless Agility") and fullType = SPELL_AURA_APPLIED and targetType = "Player"

(spell = "Dextrous") and fullType = SPELL_AURA_APPLIED and targetType = "Player"

)

If you have a Survival Hunter with Haromm's trinket and AoC, add this instead:

sourceName="<Player Name Here>"

and

(

(fullType=SPELL_CAST_START or fullType=SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS)

(spell = "Lock and Load") and fullType = SPELL_AURA_APPLIED and targetType = "Player"

(spell = "Vicious") and fullType = SPELL_AURA_APPLIED and targetType = "Player"

(spell = "Dextrous") and fullType = SPELL_AURA_APPLIED and targetType = "Player"

)

Once you hit the run button, it'll spit out a list of shots cast, and buffs applied, like the following:

[03:23:36.563] HunterX casts Serpent Sting on Iron Juggernaut

[03:23:36.563] HunterX gains Restless Agility from HunterX

[03:23:37.088] HunterX casts Synapse Springs

[03:23:37.113] HunterX casts Bestial Wrath

[03:23:37.625] HunterX casts Kill Command on Iron Juggernaut

[03:23:38.433] HunterX casts Berserking

[03:23:38.433] HunterX casts Rapid Fire

[03:23:38.819] HunterX casts Stampede

[03:23:39.744] HunterX casts Dire Beast on Iron Juggernaut

[03:23:40.768] HunterX casts Arcane Shot on Iron Juggernaut

[03:23:41.772] HunterX casts Arcane Shot on Iron Juggernaut

[03:23:42.870] HunterX casts Arcane Shot on Iron Juggernaut

[03:23:43.761] HunterX casts Kill Command on Iron Juggernaut

What we're looking at is what they applied once their largest trinket proc'ed. In this case, for our HunterX, that proc was Restless Agility. When it proc'ed he hit Synapse Springs (the engineer Agi on-use buff), Bestial Wrath, Berserking and Stampede, which are his largest cool downs.

Here's an example from one of my own fights as an SV hunter:

[20:13:29.843] SVHunter gains Dextrous

[20:13:29.988] SVHunter casts Serpent Sting

[20:13:30.964] SVHunter casts Black Arrow

[20:13:31.919] SVHunter casts Stampede

[20:13:33.022] SVHunter casts Rapid Fire

[20:13:33.367] SVHunter casts Arcane Shot

[20:13:34.293] SVHunter begins to cast Cobra Shot

[20:13:35.382] SVHunter casts Cobra Shot

[20:13:35.382] SVHunter casts Explosive Shot

[20:13:35.474] SVHunter gains Lock and Load

[20:13:36.252] SVHunter casts Disengage

[20:13:36.420] SVHunter casts Explosive Shot

[20:13:37.438] SVHunter casts Explosive Shot

[20:13:38.405] SVHunter casts Explosive Shot

[20:13:39.443] SVHunter casts Explosive Shot

[20:13:40.522] SVHunter casts Explosive Shot

[20:13:41.387] SVHunter casts Arcane Shot

[20:13:42.473] SVHunter casts Kill Shot

[20:13:43.607] SVHunter casts Kill Shot

[20:13:44.889] SVHunter casts Misdirection on Pugnodeum

[20:13:45.066] SVHunter casts Serpent Sting

[20:13:46.076] SVHunter casts Black Arrow

[20:13:47.670] SVHunter gains Lock and Load

[20:13:47.695] SVHunter casts Explosive Shot

This shows the full duration of Dextrous, the proc from Assurance of Consequence. I put in bold the DoTs I used. In this case I had been waiting for the trinket to proc, because I had stampede off CD, so as soon as I got the buff, I refreshed my two DoTs, and then cast Stampede (the Rapid Fire happening right there was just coincidental). Then toward the end of the buff, I reapplied Black Arrow and Serpent Sting. I used Serpent Sting instead of CS because I had plenty of focus due to the recent LnL proc. If you check the time, Black Arrow was still going to be up for a few more seconds; I used it when I did to get the benefit from Dextrous.

Learning to use the expression editor to see this information certainly isn't crucial to your performance as a hunter. For me, however, it really gives me a good way to review my fights and see what I have to work on, and make sure my DPS stays right where it should be.