Whats a good parse program?

[Kaishod]

<p>Finally got my SK self buffed to 790 INT before DM and want to play around with parses</p><p>Looking to download a parse program... any suggestions? </p>

[Druid03]

<p>Advanced Combat Tracker is pretty nice</p><p>google it, im sure it'll come up <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[sayitaintso]

<cite>Kaishodan wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Finally got my SK self buffed to 790 INT before DM and want to play around with parses</p><p>Looking to download a parse program... any suggestions? </p></blockquote> The only ones I have seen being used are sketchy at best. They don't show all the damage that a player does...

[Ji]

<p>ACT as stated above is a good one and easy to use.</p><p>BTW "control - V" is to send it in game! <img src="/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[sayitaintso]

<cite>Jixx wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>ACT as stated above is a good one and easy to use.</p><p>BTW "control - V" is to send it in game! <img src="/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p></blockquote>It's not accurate...I have tested it over and over again. It doesn't show all the damage any DoT spell or skill does and it does not parse short term swarm pets. I guess it's better than nothing but I wouldn't start accusing people of slacking if the parser shows them not doing a lot of damage...It's probably the parser, not the player..

[Ji]

<p>It's accurate if you configure it properly. Spend some time in there and play with the settings. It takes alot of getting use to so I recommend going to an easy solo spot and test various configurations.</p><p>Swarm pets will parse in ACT but you have to click something. I'll go play with it and tell you what I did later after raid tonight.</p>

[Decad]

Stinkii@Guk wrote: <blockquote><cite>Jixx wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>ACT as stated above is a good one and easy to use.</p><p>BTW "control - V" is to send it in game! <img src="/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p></blockquote>It's not accurate...I have tested it over and over again. It doesn't show all the damage any DoT spell or skill does and it does not parse short term swarm pets. I guess it's better than nothing but I wouldn't start accusing people of slacking if the parser shows them not doing a lot of damage...It's probably the parser, not the player.. </blockquote>More often than not, that happens when you are too far from the other players, and you don't log what they are doing since you are out of range to record their actions.

[sayitaintso]

<cite>Jixx wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>It's accurate if you configure it properly. Spend some time in there and play with the settings. It takes alot of getting use to so I recommend going to an easy solo spot and test various configurations.</p><p>Swarm pets will parse in ACT but you have to click something. I'll go play with it and tell you what I did later after raid tonight.</p></blockquote>I tried it with my fury the first night I loaded it. I soloed a green Mob and Act showed me doing 1300 points of damage...I was in TT...I think the mobs up there have a few more HPs than that...most of the time it's close, but it's not worth geting upset at someone in your group...

[metacell]

Stinkii@Guk wrote: <blockquote>Jixx wrote: <p>It's not accurate...I have tested it over and over again. It doesn't show all the damage any DoT spell or skill does and it does not parse short term swarm pets. I guess it's better than nothing but I wouldn't start accusing people of slacking if the parser shows them not doing a lot of damage...It's probably the parser, not the player..</p></blockquote>Ah, I see... I've used ACT a lot, and wondered why my Dark Broodlings damage always showed as 0... I thought they were just useless and lazy <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Ji]

<p>Well see wwen they changed the ability to name your swarm pets they included swarm pets into your dps and not your pets. Consider swarm pets a dot with a graphic! However if you look at the graph on the parse you will see your swarm pets do a substantial amount of damage. The problem is it's still calculated as YOUR dps. The parse picks up an added member of your group and cant distinguish between a summoned pet and a spell. So thats why swarm pets always show zero.</p><p>I still cant remember how I configured it but there is a way to do it trust me. I just got off a very long raid but tomorrow I'll find this thread and give you instructions. Have a good night. : )</p>

[Wossname]

I've just run ACT on an encounter. I sent in my tank pet and dumbfires. In the list of entities in the fight, my blighted pack shows up as doing 0 DPS. A quick look into the listing of my personal damage types there is an entry "blighted pack" which consists of crushing damage. ACT works great (thanks Aditu <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />) but like everything else you need to understand a little about what it does and how it works.

[Tokam]

<cite>Wossname wrote:</cite><blockquote>I've just run ACT on an encounter. I sent in my tank pet and dumbfires. In the list of entities in the fight, my blighted pack shows up as doing 0 DPS. A quick look into the listing of my personal damage types there is an entry "blighted pack" which consists of crushing damage. ACT works great (thanks Aditu <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />) but like everything else you need to understand a little about what it does and how it works. </blockquote>Ive never had any issues with the accuracy of act - with the caveat that my parse (I stand at the back with the cool kids) of a sassin trying to insert its self down the throat of Mob A is going to be on the low side.

[Mareth]

<cite>Wossname wrote:</cite><blockquote>I've just run ACT on an encounter. I sent in my tank pet and dumbfires. In the list of entities in the fight, my blighted pack shows up as doing 0 DPS. A quick look into the listing of my personal damage types there is an entry "blighted pack" which consists of crushing damage. ACT works great (thanks Aditu <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />) but like everything else you need to understand a little about what it does and how it works. </blockquote>Yeah, I've tried the same, someone said Forge of Ro didn't get parsed as it always had 0 on the parse, so I found a bunch of grey mobs, and did nothing but cast that spell. My own dps rocketed <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Not sure if there are any other type of spells that doesn't function too well though

[Sebastien]

ugh <img src="/smilies/1069449046bcd664c21db15b1dfedaee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Thundy]

Stinkii@Guk wrote: <blockquote><cite>Jixx wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>It's accurate if you configure it properly. Spend some time in there and play with the settings. It takes alot of getting use to so I recommend going to an easy solo spot and test various configurations.</p><p>Swarm pets will parse in ACT but you have to click something. I'll go play with it and tell you what I did later after raid tonight.</p></blockquote>I tried it with my fury the first night I loaded it. I soloed a green Mob and Act showed me doing 1300 points of damage...I was in TT...I think the mobs up there have a few more HPs than that...most of the time it's close, but it's not worth geting upset at someone in your group... </blockquote> I think you are confused? It is not saying you did 1300 points of damage, it is saying your average <b>Damage Per Second</b> (DPS) is 1300.

[Ji]

Nope, read the graph. Your overall damage output is combined so it dont matter how it's read. Your STILL getting credit for the swarm pets but the parser is showing an extra group member is all. Surprisingly enough I find that my master 2 pyromany does more damage than my Seismic Tremor on a single target raid mob. Swarm pets parse in your dps trust me. I'm drinking coffee then heading out for a bit but I'll post screenshots right when I get back.

[Malchore]

<p>I use ACT as well, and I think I'm going to have to uninstall and re-install it.  I was playing with the settings and somehow managed to goof it up to a point where it no longer graphs.  I have the proper settings in place, it just doesn't graph.  And now just in the last few days, it sometimes records me in the pase and sometimes doesn't.  It selectevly picks up group members and sometimes doesn't.  Odd.  (And yes, I'm am standing close to the mob and my groupmates so I am well within range to record their data.)</p><p>Also, it won't seperate blocks, parries, defections and repostes.  It just lumps them all under the "Hit/Failed" column.  For Tanks wanting to get a picture of how well they block or reposte, they'll have to resort to looking through the logs with a pencil and recording the information by hand.  However, it does come with a seclective parse feature and I'm thinking I'll write my own regular expressions to parse it myself.</p><p>The Triggers and Alarms feature is really a great addition.  I havn't used it yet but it looks great.</p><p>I can't make the In-Game window feature work.  I have the feature enabled, but it never exports the Inventory.HTML file.  I followed the setup instructions and tutorial it provides, but it doesn't work.</p>