Shaman HEP

[Snafuji]

Hello to all ye fellow resto shammies! As you all know, patch 3.2 brought a lot of new changes to restoration shamans. I'm curious as to how this affects our shaman HEP values, or in other words, which stats are now our most important and which are least. In order to find out, I propose that we start running shaman_hep. Shaman_hep is a program which analyzes combat logs and calculates shaman healing equivalence points. The longer the combat log, the more accurate the hep values will be. Here's how to set it up:

1.) First, you will need a combat log. I use the addon Loggerhead (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/loggerhead.aspx) for this. When you have this installed, you can configure it so it will log only when inside Ulduar or the Coliseum. You can also manually enable and disable logging if that is your preference.

2.) You will need to download shaman_hep (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/shaman_hep.aspx). Unlike regular addons, it is recommended you simply extract this to your WoW logs folder. For me it is: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Logs

3.) You will need to edit the shaman_hep configuration file. Inside the shaman_hep folder is a shaman_hep.cfg file. Open this up with notepad and simply input the values corresponding to your character.

4.) For shaman_hep to work, Perl must be installed on your computer. Elitist Jerks recommends ActivePerl (http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/) for Windows users.

5.) Collect combat logs over the course of, let's say, three weeks. I say three weeks because we aren't always in raid. Most of the time one of us is sitting out.

6.) After that, we are ready to run shaman_hep. First, open up a command window. To do this open up your start menu, select Run, and type cmd in the prompt. When the command window is open, type in "cd" (without quotations) and then the location of your shaman_hep folder. For me, it looks like this:

cd C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Logs\shaman_hep

Then click enter. Afterwards, you should move your combat log report (WoWCombatLog.txt) from your WoW logs folder into your shaman_hep folder.
After you have done this, type this into the command prompt and click enter.

perl shaman_hep.pl -c shaman_hep.cfg WowCombatLog.txt > Report.txt

This is assuming you haven't renamed shaman_hep.cfg or anything like that. This process will usually take a few minutes or more.

When you are done compiling a report, post it up with code tags (the button with the octothorp #) for easy viewing.

I look forward to seeing the results!

[Snafuji]

Although I wasn't able to get three weeks in (for a number of reasons), I believe I was able to create a rather conclusive report. My first report was skewed because of some gemming changes I had made halfway through logging so I chose to pitch that one and make another:



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Stat relationships:

For healing output:
1 SP = 1 SP (0.3859 hps)
1 Crit rating = 0.2711 SP (0.1046 hps)
1 Haste rating = 1.3079 SP (0.5047 hps)
1 INT = 0.2404 SP (0.0928 hps)

For mana regen:
1 MP5 = 1 mp5
1 Crit rating = 0.0787 mp5
1 Haste rating = -0.5719 mp5
1 INT = 0.3688 mp5
1 Mana = 0.0066 mp5
Total mana regen points needed from gear: 1021.57

Shaman Healing Equivalency Points:
1 SP = 1
1 mp5 = 1.4074 (calculated)
1 mana = 0.0093
1 Haste rating = 0.9254
1 Crit rating = 0.3819
1 INT = 0.7594 (actual)
1 INT = 1.1245 (max theoretical)

Insightful Earthsiege Diamond HEP: 80.2313

As most believed, mp5/haste/sp are our most relevant and primary stats for this patch. Although this report says spellpower is slightly better than haste, shaman_hep isn't able to detect the importance of mobility. Many a times it is more important to simply get a fast heal off rather than land a slower, slightly larger heal.