3.1 has brought some new changes to the armory, notably the inclusion of both specs on the talents page, as well as the associated glyphs. I’ve been curious about glyph choices for a while, so my obligatory Friday graphing extravaganza is going to focus on PvP glyphing.
The fact there’s no arena season going at the moment means there’s no real pressure to re-glyph immediately, and it’s entirely possible people are concentrating on PvE while Ulduar is shiny and new. Nevertheless, here’s a graph of glyphs for mut/prep rogues (the only requirement for this is that they have a point in mutilate overkill and a point in prep) in top 300 Reckoning 2v2 teams.
There are currently 40 such rogues, out of 65 rogues total in the top 300 teams.
I’m currently running Mutilate, Vigor, and Gouge. I’ll have to see how much time I spend peeling death knights off my healer to decide whether the Gouge glyph is worth keeping; I can see a stronger case for Prep now that Death Knights and Paladins both do more of their damage with their melee weapons, and now that warriors are getting a few (much-needed) buffs.
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Blizzard have introduced a new feature to the official Armory: arena records.
Basically if you go to any team page (Here’s my rogue’s current 2v2, for example) you get a couple of extra tabs along the top that let you see the match history and opponent history.
The Match history shows you a pretty fancy line graph of your rating and you can hover over individual nodes on the line to see information about each particular game. It has a decent set of filters down the bottom allowing you to set dates and rating cutoffs or to find individual teams, and it has a small graph below the main one that shows your rating change over a much larger timescale and allows you to select the display window for the main graph. Very slick!
It even shows you cool information about your rating delta for the window you have selected and your average rating change per game. If you click one of the games it takes you to a page with a detailed breakdown for that game with damage/healing done, fight map and length, rating changes, and all that good stuff.
Finally at the bottom you have a tabular view of your games which you can sort in various ways.
The Match History page shows you a tabular view of all the teams you’ve played against with their win/loss ratio and total rating delta vs that team.
This is an incredibly awesome feature and I’m looking forward to a lot more detailed and accurate arena statistics now that this information is publicly available – goodbye forever, Arena Historian!
You can have a look at the Arena Reports FAQ, the Opponent History FAQ, and the Match Report FAQ. The original blue post about it is here.
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