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		<title>That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;ve never beaten DK/Hunter!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chronic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you might have guessed I&#8217;ve been having quite a bit of fun with the new armory features I mentioned last week. I toyed around with doing some reports based on the data behind the Opponent History page, but for whatever reason it seems like it&#8217;s missing a lot of games compared to the Match [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you might have guessed I&#8217;ve been having quite a bit of fun with the new armory features I mentioned last week.  I toyed around with doing some reports based on the data behind the Opponent History page, but for whatever reason it seems like it&#8217;s missing a lot of games compared to the Match History page.  The Match History page has better data anyway, I was just hoping to save myself some <span class="caps">HTTP </span>requests since one for each game adds up pretty quick.</p>

<p>One problem with the new pages is they don&#8217;t seem to be updated very frequently &#8211; it&#8217;s possibly done with the weekly reset, since neither of my teams seem to include any of the games we&#8217;ve played this week &#8211; my rogue in particular played close to a hundred games.  I&#8217;ll definitely do some updated stats once this week&#8217;s games are included.</p>

<p>So anyway; the questions I wanted to answer with this investigation are:</p>


<ul>
<li>What compositions do we have trouble with?</li>
<li>What classes in particular are we losing a lot against?</li>
<li>What are our win/loss ratios like on different maps?</li>
</ul>



<p>I could hazard a guess at all of these of course, but you can&#8217;t beat hard data!  I&#8217;ve elected to include every game at the moment, but it would probably be more useful to cut off games below a certain rating threshold &#8211; the two teams I&#8217;m playing in actively have been used the entire season and there&#8217;s been a degree of discovery with the comps.  In fact, both of my partners are new to their specs this season, so it would probably make sense to ignore some of the &#8220;training&#8221; games.</p>

<p>That said, here&#8217;s the data for <a href="http://www.wowarmory.com/team-info.xml?r=Eldre%27Thalas&amp;ts=2&amp;t=i+have+a+bunch+of+hearts">my rogue/rshaman team</a>.  The columns are, in order: wins, losses, total games, win ratio, average match length (seconds).  </p>

<p>Total games played: 266 (145 wins, 121 losses, ratio: 0.545).</p>



<pre>                 Hunter/Priest =&gt;   5   0   5  1.000  190.20
                  Druid/Shaman =&gt;   2   0   2  1.000  231.00
                  Mage/Warlock =&gt;   1   0   1  1.000  192.00
            Death Knight/Rogue =&gt;   1   0   1  1.000  190.00
                Priest/Warlock =&gt;   1   0   1  1.000  139.00
                Hunter/Paladin =&gt;  15   1  16  0.938  323.69
            Death Knight/Druid =&gt;   3   1   4  0.750  130.50
               Paladin/Warlock =&gt;  10   4  14  0.714  222.21
                 Hunter/Shaman =&gt;   5   2   7  0.714  257.86
                Paladin/Shaman =&gt;   6   3   9  0.667  334.44
                  Rogue/Shaman =&gt;   4   2   6  0.667  255.50
                Paladin/Priest =&gt;   2   1   3  0.667  201.00
                Shaman/Warlock =&gt;   3   2   5  0.600  232.60
                 Paladin/Rogue =&gt;   3   2   5  0.600  265.80
                    Mage/Rogue =&gt;  17  12  29  0.586  156.31
           Death Knight/Shaman =&gt;   4   4   8  0.500  264.00
                   Druid/Rogue =&gt;   3   3   6  0.500  189.50
           Death Knight/Priest =&gt;   3   3   6  0.500  183.50
                  Druid/Priest =&gt;   2   2   4  0.500  289.00
                 Druid/Warlock =&gt;   1   1   2  0.500  316.50
          Death Knight/Paladin =&gt;  20  21  41  0.488  265.54
                    Druid/Mage =&gt;   5   6  11  0.455  218.64
                  Druid/Hunter =&gt;   4   5   9  0.444  251.11
                  Mage/Paladin =&gt;   8  11  19  0.421  163.95
               Paladin/Warrior =&gt;   7  10  17  0.412  322.24
                  Priest/Rogue =&gt;   6  12  18  0.333  204.78
             Death Knight/Mage =&gt;   2   4   6  0.333  155.33
                 Rogue/Warlock =&gt;   1   2   3  0.333  181.67
                 Druid/Paladin =&gt;   1   5   6  0.167  350.50
                   Mage/Shaman =&gt;   0   1   1  0.000  294.00
           Death Knight/Hunter =&gt;   0   1   1  0.000  192.00</pre>



<p>They&#8217;re ordered firstly by win ratio and then by total games played.  Here&#8217;s a look at the individual classes:</p>



<pre>                        Hunter =&gt;  29   9  38  0.763  273.34
                       Warlock =&gt;  17   9  26  0.654  222.42
                        Shaman =&gt;  24  14  38  0.632  273.13
                       Paladin =&gt;  72  58 130  0.554  267.81
                         Rogue =&gt;  35  33  68  0.515  190.49
                        Priest =&gt;  19  18  37  0.514  206.38
                          Mage =&gt;  33  34  67  0.493  171.21
                  Death Knight =&gt;  33  34  67  0.493  237.85
                         Druid =&gt;  21  23  44  0.477  242.68
                       Warrior =&gt;   7  10  17  0.412  322.24</pre>



<p>Warriors win at drawing games out, who knew?  Finally here&#8217;s a breakdown by map:</p>



<pre>                 Nagrand Arena =&gt;  40  22  62  0.645  274.13
                Dalaran Sewers =&gt;  33  26  59  0.559  229.44
            Ruins of Lordaeron =&gt;  25  22  47  0.532  230.77
            Blade's Edge Arena =&gt;  34  35  69  0.493  224.87
             The Ring of Valor =&gt;  13  16  29  0.448  202.17</pre>



<p>So, some quick observations:  </p>


<ul>
<li>Warrior teams are hard but there aren&#8217;t a lot of them and they only really have one viable comp.</li>
<li>There are a <strong><span class="caps">LOT</span></strong> of DK/Pally teams out there, and Mage/Rogue is pretty highly represented as well.  I should probably do some graphs of appearances of a certain comp versus rating because that gives you a good idea of what you need to be able to beat to progress up the ladder.</li>
<li>Mage games, Rogue games, and Mage/Rogue in particular, are over really quickly.</li>
<li>Priest/Rogue is the &#8220;popular comp&#8221; that we have the hardest time with.  Especially when they both abuse engineering, which seems to be <strong>everybody</strong> this week.</li>
<li>Org arena is really crappy, I&#8217;m ecstatic they took it off the live realms.</li>
</ul>



<p>There&#8217;s a lot of other data you could look at &#8211; damage done or taken versus different compositions, how many killing blows the healers manage to steal (spoiler: Azuba has <a href="http://chron.ws/stuff/azuba-over-a-billion.png">over a billion damage done</a> so you better fucking watch out).  This is the sort of stuff I always wanted to do with ArenaHistorian but never quite got around to!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I&#8217;m an equal-opportunity data miner</title>
		<link>http://blog.chron.ws/archives/63</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chronic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Mining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my rogue I&#8217;ve been doing 2s with Azuba as resto, so we&#8217;ve been talking a fair bit about shaman gearing and different spec possibilities recently. I ran a similar report to the paladin one I did the other day with the current top 200 Reckoning 2v2 teams &#8211; restoration shaman only. I won&#8217;t do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On my rogue I&#8217;ve been doing 2s with Azuba as resto, so we&#8217;ve been talking a fair bit about shaman gearing and different spec possibilities recently.</p>

<p>I ran a similar report to the paladin one I did the other day with the current top 200 Reckoning 2v2 teams &#8211; restoration shaman only.  I won&#8217;t do any analysis since I don&#8217;t know that much about shaman, but I thought I&#8217;d post the output here anyway in case people were interested.</p>

<p><a href="http://chron.ws/stuff/shaman-reckoning-2s-20090305.txt">Here are the results!</a></p>

<p>As a bonus there are Google Chart <span class="caps">URL</span>s with each of the statistics if you prefer to consume your data in pie form.  Here&#8217;s the &#8220;weapon equipped in main hand&#8221; one for your viewing pleasure:</p>

<p><img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x300&#038;cht=p&#038;chtt=main_hand&#038;chl=The%20Soulblade|War%20Mace%20of%20Unrequited%20Love|Deadly%20Gladiator%27s%20Gavel|Hammer%20of%20the%20Astral%20Plane|Deadly%20Gladiator%27s%20Spellblade|Titansteel%20Guardian|Torch%20of%20Holy%20Fire|Ice%20Spire%20Scepter|Wraith%20Strike&#038;chd=e:MzMzZm..mZZmmZMz.." alt="" height="300" width="600" /></p>

<p>Note that I have completely excluded &#8220;PvE geared&#8221; (ie, no Medallion) shaman from the report.  Here&#8217;s one more pie, the partner class.  Looks like shaman have a few viable choices:</p>

<p><img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x300&#038;cht=p&#038;chtt=partner_class&#038;chl=Hunter|Warrior|Rogue|Druid|Death%20Knight|Paladin|Warlock&#038;chd=e:ZmMz..MzMzZm.." alt="" height="300" width="600" /></p>]]></content:encoded>
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