Wow Web Stats: Getting Started
I mentioned WWS in my last post and how it’s the best system for keeping track of raid data that I’ve come across. The greatest thing about it is that it allows everyone in your guild to look at the data for each raid and doesn’t require that everyone be running damage/heal meters.
If you want to take a look at a raid report, here’s a link to a recent Karazhan run my Alliance guild did. (Note: Reports for free accounts are only hosted for 15 days, so that link won’t stay up forever. I’ll try and update it in the coming weeks.
The first thing that you need to know about WWS, if you want to start trying it for yourself, is that it’s technically not an addon. Instead of installing a WWS program to run in your WoW client, what you do is tell the WoW client to write all of the combat data into a combat log. WWS then parses that log, pulls all of the relevant data from it, and puts the report up on the Web for you to peruse.
The simplest way to turn the combat log on is to type /combatlog in the chat window. That will tell the WoW client to start a WoWCombatLog.txt in your WoW/Logs directory. When you want to turn it off, simply type /combatlog again. As simple as that is however, it can get tiresome to turn it on and off every time you zone and re-zone. I recommend using the Loggerhead addon to make things easier. It allows you to tell it which instances/zones you want a combat log for, and then automatically turns it on when you enter that zone.
Now that you know how WWS works, here are the rest of the steps you need to do.
1) Go to the WWS website and register an account. If your guild is starting a raid in 5 minutes, you can skip this step for now, but you do have to have an account before you can post a report.
2) Make sure you have Loggerhead installed and running, or manually turn the combat log on once you’re in the raid zone.
3) Raid. Kill. Heal. Get phat lewtz.
4). Once you’re done raiding, exit WoW. When you quit the WoW client, it writes a few more lines to the combat log to basically say “The End”. If you upload the combat log while still in WoW, WWS won’t be able to read it corrrectly.
5) Head back to WWS, and use their Java client to upload the log. Once it’s done parsing the log, it’ll host it automatically, and give you the web address to check it out.
6) ???
7) Profit!



