Harsh Words and Steel: A Protection Warrior Guide

[Strucker]

a) Its thecks macro, i've tried with my limitied script knowledge to remove it and as yet am unsuccesful

Just need to remove the last 2 % characters.

/run ChatFrame1:AddMessage(format("Ideal pre-dr parry/dodge ratio: 2.065, yours is %.3f, if too high reforge more parry to dodge",(GetParryChance()-3.76)/(GetDodgeChance()-5.01)))

[Strucker]

Parry Rating = 3,603456 * Dodge Rating - 92.8% * buffed Strength

Using that formula the macro below might work better:

/run local d,p,s= GetCombatRating(3), GetCombatRating(4), UnitStat('player',1); print(format("Parry/Dodge Ratio\nIdeal: %.2f\nYours: %.2f",(3.603456*d-.928*s)/d,p/d))

[Tengenstein]

Doesn't seem to want to work upon copy pasting

[Strucker]

Hm, the display is adding a space in "UnitStat" making it "UnitSt at" but the space is not there when I go to edit the post.

EDIT: Adding some extra spaces, seems to have fixed the display. Should work now.

[Tengenstein]

SO it retunes i should have a -3.30 ratio and i have 1.63, I m not really sure how to interpret that.

[Strucker]

SO it retunes i should have a -3.30 ratio and i have 1.63, I m not really sure how to interpret that.

It's just using the formula I linked. my guess is that we have so much strength on our current gear that we are more than making up the ideal parry rating with it alone.

[Tengenstein]

Naked it gives -1.#J

[Strucker]

IDEAL_PARRY_RATING = 3.603456 * DODGE_RATING - 92.8% * STRENGTH

right now my Dodge Rating is 1200 and my Strength is 4700 so
IDEAL_PARRY_RATING = 3.603456 * 1200 - 92.8% * 4700 IDEAL_PARRY_RATING = 4324.1472 - 4361.6IDEAL_PARRY_RATING = -37.4528

IDEAL_RATIO = IDEAL_PARRY / DODGE_RATING
IDEAL_RATIO = -37.4528 / 1200
IDEAL_RATIO = -.03121

I gather you just have a lot more Strength or a lot less Dodge

[Strucker]

Naked it gives -1.#J

Without any Dodge rating the base strength will easily overcome 0 rating

[Tengenstein]

I'm gonna stick with Theck's macro until we have an altertive that doens't return gibberish for some data sets

[Strucker]

It might be easier to look at the formula as:

Parry Rating + 92.8% * buffed Strength = 3,603456 * Dodge Rating

The number's look cleaner but it comes to the same things.

/run local d,p,s= GetCombatRating(3), GetCombatRating(4), UnitStat('player',1); print(format("Parry/Dodge Ratio\nIdeal: %.2f\nYours: %.2f",3.603456*d/d,(p+.928*s)/d))

[Tengenstein]

That is much better.

[kopcap]

I lost avoidance when I reforged following the above macro.

[Tengenstein]

Where you on particularily low dodge before?

[kopcap]

Nah I was pretty high.

[Tengenstein]

How High is high?

[kopcap]

1800 rating

[Dreador]

What was the percentage of dodge unbuffed? 12? 14?

[kopcap]

I ran Ultrax a few times to get a feel to high avoidance / middle expertise build (currently at 9% exp, 62% avoidance, 21% block / 37 crit block vs 88) vs an exp capped/full mastery build.

- Rage generation feels adequate. Does not feel any different. Lack of exp is not noticeable. SB uptime around the same. Damage taken is noticeably lower.

- If you spam SB, DPS is noticeably higher. This is probably a combination of more Str and HtL.

- If you spam Sbar, total damage taken is even lower. Melee damage taken is slightly higher. But DPS plummets. HR still means a lot. It cuts 50% of your SS dmg.

[Tengenstein]

I've been run ning some sims and well I'm not happy, whetever i do reforging wise INCREASES my damage taken, if i reforge everythign to avoidance, and mastery at the expense of threat stats, to go for mastery then threat stats, or threat stats then avoidance, or mastery i incraeasr damage taken, i tended to get the lowest iDPS with buffed, 40% avoidance, 70% buffed mastery and 11% hit/expertise. I get the feelign that for maximum TDR we're gonna hve some sort of flaoting 5 way equilibrium point. which is an asshole.