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A Comedy of Error – Part II
As I said in Part I, I observed some strange error behavior in the 5.4.2 Rotation Analysis post. Now that we’ve had a thorough (and lengthy) review of the statistics of error analysis, It’s time we looked more carefully at the … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged error, LaTeX, simcraft, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
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A Comedy of Error – Part I
In the 5.4.2 Rotation Analysis post, I mentioned that I was looking into some odd behavior in the SimC error statistics: I’m actually doing a little statistical analysis on SimC results right now to investigate some deviations from this prediction, … Continue reading
Posted in Simcraft, Simulation, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged LaTeX, simcraft, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
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5.4.2 Rotation Analysis
In December, I talked about the code I’ve written to automate the testing of Simcraft profiles. In that post, I tackled the two easiest simulations to write: glyphs and talents. In both of those cases, we’re just editing a single … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting, Uncategorized
Tagged Min/Max, rotations, Scaling, simcraft, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, vengeance, warcraft, WoW
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5.4.2 WeakAuras Strings
It’s been a little while since 5.4 was released, and I’ve still been tweaking my WeakAuras here and there as I go. I’ve finally made enough tweaks that I thought it was worth sharing with the class. Again, the updated … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches
Tagged Active Mitigation, buffs, rotations, simcraft, tank, tanking, theck, ui, vengeance, warcraft, weakauras, WoW
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Itemization Value of 4T16
Last week, Fouton from Icy Veins asked me whether I had tried to determine an “ilvl value” for the tier 16 4-piece set bonus. Stated another way, the problem he was trying to solve was twofold: Is it worth using … Continue reading
Posted in Simcraft, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting, Uncategorized
Tagged Active Mitigation, buffs, gear, Min/Max, raiding, set bonuses, simcraft, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
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A Letter to Celesty Claus
Every Winter Veil, children of both factions write letters to Greatfather Winter and ask for toys and games. In the meantime, their parents are writing letters and saying prayers to a completely different deity: Celesty Claus, the great celestial dragon … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Uncategorized
Tagged game design, Holy Shield, Humor, Raid Strategy, rotations, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, threat, vengeance, warcraft, WoW
22 Comments
MATLAB Automation Code
So it’s finally time to unveil a project I’ve been working on intermittently for the last three months. If you recall, in the past I maintained a suite of MATLAB DPS simulations that attempted to determine optimal rotations, stats, glyphs, … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting, Uncategorized
Tagged Active Mitigation, classes, Min/Max, rotations, Scaling, simcraft, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, vengeance, warcraft, WoW
37 Comments
Post-Blizz-Con Wrap-Up, Part 2
In the last post, I ranted about time travel and lore. This time, I’m going to talk about some of the mechanical changes that were announced at BlizzCon. Stats, Reforging, and Gear There were a lot of different gear-related changes … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged avoidance, BlizzCon, control, game design, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, vengeance, warcraft, warriors, WoW
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Post-Blizz-Con Wrap-Up, Part 1
I had a great time at BlizzCon, and met a lot of great people. It’s really fun to meet someone in person that you’ve only ever interacted with online, either via Twitter, in blog comments, or in-game. Unfortunately, this year … Continue reading
BlizzCon Wishlist/Predictions
With BlizzCon coming later this week, we’ll soon be inundated with information about the next expansion. Or at least, I think most of us assume that Friday’s “World of Warcraft: What’s Next?” presentation will reveal the next expansion. I guess … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, Anafielle, avoidance, BlizzCon, diminishing returns, game design, Min/Max, Scaling, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
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