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I would like to have a real time visual status screen displaying the current CPU usage (and possibly memory consumption) for a number of remote machines. These machines will be reachable only using TCP (not UDP etc) and the graphical client will need to run on Windows. Does anyone know of such a tool?
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Is there a visual tool running on Windows that lets me display CPU load etc on Windows and Linux machines?
Cacti, Opsview, SCOM, and plenty of other pieces of monitoring software can do this and will display the results in a web browser or Windows console. Keep in mind that even at 1 minute sample intervals, you'll be creating a lot of traffic and causing additional load processing the SNMP/WMI requests on the boxes being monitored. The "standard" value for samples like this are 5 minutes. You can absolutely set them to be more frequent, but be cautious.
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Wednesday, 22 June
Heheheh. There's a shower here at the Ilboru Safari Lodge and I just showered and before I showered I found out that Mom brought a big bottle of shampoo and a big bottle of conditioner. Yeah. No wonder her luggage weighs fifty pounds. Sheesh. 'I have long hair!' she says. I didn't even bring deodorant.
That's all that's happened yet today, considering that it's only, I don't know, eight in the morning or thereabouts. The only other thing even possibly worth note is that my t-shirt smells like pesticides. I haven't been wearing it until now - for the travelling, I wore my rather pajama-like fleece pants, fleece vest, and gray sleeves. Still have the gray sleeves on, actually, which is good because it puts something between me and the pesticide t-shirt.
Oh, and, this isn't about today, but yesterday was the winter solstice! Because, y'know, we can never just have summer in June, winter in December, summer, winter, summer, winter like normal people. Oh no. Let's see. Warning: This is mostly just me showing off how many fantastic places I've been, because I knew I would probably end up showing it to you lot. So, sorry, I'm about to be an insufferable show-off about how great my life is. Also it's going to be full of references to places and incidents without any explanation so they won't make any sense. I'm afraid I'm about to get really annoying.
June 2007 we were crossing the country eastwards in the Honda, yes? Stealth camping by night, Mushroom Rock State Park, bicycles strapped to the back of the car. Summer, in the Northern Hemisphere, in the United States, contiguous. Normal, and all the solstices before it normal as well. Actually the solstice was Deathly Hallows so 2007 must have been the time with the Majestic? No, that's not right, because the first transcontinental was definitely not 2006. I'm confused.
December 2007 - Chile. The boat, infamous. Ro-Ro Magellanes, Magdalena, the Chilean National Bun, endless hours of reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' Southern Hemisphere, summer solstice. Summer summer.
June 2008 - Transcontinental in the Majestic. Treehugger's Family, Glacier National Park, Sage and Zuma go to Canada. Northern Hemisphere. Summer. Summer summer summer.
December 2008 - Yellowstone. White Christmas, wicked cold, snow on the roof of the car all the way back to California. Northern Hemisphere. Winter solstice. Summer summer summer winter.
June 2009 - Peru. Probably Manu, though the Andes trek was the more memorable part. Manu had lightning bugs and butt-bats. And it was definitely the Southern Hemisphere. Winter. Summer summer summer winter winter.
December 2009 - Arizona. That unmemorable excursion to the desert when all I (italics on the 'I' - it doesn't quite merit an underline, especially as 'I' is the worst word to underline because it has that horizontal line under it already) wanted to do was have Christmas at home and go to Grey's birthday party. Northern Hemisphere, winter. Summer summer summer winter winter winter.
June 2010 - Alaska. Very much Northern Hemisphere, very much summer. Summer summer summer winter winter winter summer.
December 2010 - Arizona or New Mexico. That nice trip to Carlsbad and suchlike places. Winter. Summer summer summer winter winter winter summer winter.
June 2011 - That's now. Or yesterday rather. Actually in all that travel it was probably on the solstice that we crossed the Equator. So it could count as summer and winter. Weird. But I'll classify it as winter predominantly, because in flight is considered sort of outside times and places because otherwise it's just too confusing. So. Summer summer summer winter winter winter summer winter winter (or summer/winter for the sake of extra weirdness).
And then wherever we are in December 2011 it will be in the Northern Hemisphere and therefore winter again.
So yeah pretty much we're time travellers.
(/Annoying showoffery.).............................................................
...And now we're in the airport, waiting for the plane to somewhere-else. Mwanza.
I've got a banana that I'm carrying around in my pocket all day unless I eat it before 'all day' has passed. Leaena would be so proud. (Because Leaena is the Prime Doctor-Stalker and the Doctor has a thing about bananas, particularly having them always with him at the most random times.) We discovered these bananas at breakfast. They're fantastic. Even when ripe (I prefer bananas underripe) they're better than our normal bananas at their best, plus they're about half the length, so, perfect size for carrying around in a pocket. We need this breed of bananas - that looks like three, maybe four ns ('cause of my handwriting, which you can't see), but some of them are just as that look funny - in the States, seriously. I would, like, always have one in my pocket. Partly to entertain Leaena, yes, but mostly because bananas, and these bananas in particular, genuinely are good.
Breakfast on the whole was good, speaking of breakfast. Most notable for the aforementioned bananas, the variety of interesting jams, and the hard-boiled eggs with white yolks. Very weirdly white yolks.
We were all actually awake today for the ride from Arusha back to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO), which we obviously weren't yesterday going the other direction. It was kind of beautiful, just seeing all these ordinary people going about their ordinary lives in a place where ordinary is completely alien to us. People milling about everywhere, burning charcoal, killing chickens, balancing heavy bundles on their heads, herding goats and cattle, getting their hair done, chumming around.
Random funny to explain later:
Family: What drink did you get?
Me: It's
fa Fanta... dark colored?
Mom: Grape?
Me: They said something that sounded like 'black orange'....
Dad: Maybe it's cherry! (Said very brightly and randomly. Because 'cherry' is totally what looks like grape but sounds like 'black orange.')
Resuming chronologically:
we rode back to the airport, blah blah blah blah blah.... another plane ride... got to Mwanza, the second largest city in Tanzania after Dar es Salaam, with Arusha being third.... waited for William, our guide, for rather a long time before he realised that we were the people for whom he had been waiting. While we were waiting we wondered (blasted alliteration) over a signpost giving such pointers as <Kilimanjaro ### N.M (that's supposed to be those words inside a little signpost arrow, by the way) - the question was what was meant by N.M; I ruled out nanometers and favored nautical miles, Dad ruled out nautical miles and favored New Mexico.
William drove us through Mwanza, clearly a wealthier city than Arusha, stopped at a bank so we could exchange a hundred United States Dollars for Tanzanian Shillings (sixteen shillings per cent), and took us to a restaurant called 'Diners' for soda.
- Random observation: I had always learned that 'taxicab' is the only word in English that can be split into two smaller words each meaning exactly the same as the original. Not so. Sodapop. -
This is when happened the Random Funny on the opposing page. We later established that my Fanta was indeed black cherry. And this is why it's always good, when in doubt, to choose the option that is most purple.
Thence went we on through many kilometers of suburbs - hey, 'nother word-related observation: suburbs ought to be a singular noun, if it comes from urbs, urbis, third declension, femenine (sic - that's not a word I usually misspell, either, and hey, I finally learned recently that 'sic' is not an abbreviation for anything but is rather the Latin word for 'thus,' as in 'thus it was misspelled in the original'), which it does. Then again, if we are going to get too grammatical, it would have to be suburbe, with the ablative. And then, ooh, what would the plural be, suburbes or suburbibus? Not suburbibus, 'cause that would make the cities plural and not the sub-cities. Regardless - (picking up from 'many kilometers of suburbs') and farmland, all beautifully alienly ordinary - 'alienly' is so a word: 'alien' is an adjective, so 'alienly' must necessarily be the
adjective adverb form. Curse you, spellchecker that isn't even here still checking my handwritten journal! - (picking up from 'beautifully alienly ordinary) and lots of beautiful alien ordinary people working the fields or making bricks or milling around, and children shouting and waving the Swahili for 'White!' because we were as beautifully alien to them as they were to us.
And now we're here at the Speke Bay Lodge, on the very shore of Lake Victoria. Seriously, the beach is a few meters away from the back doors of the cabins. This whole place is supremely fantastic. There were birds everywhere all afternoon - ibises and swallows and weaverbirds and kingfishers and herons and others I can't even name - and now that it's night there are millipedes and toads and bats and geckos and a scorpion and lots of annoying flying bugs. And the food is good and the grounds are beautiful and the cabins are amazing - we got two of them even though one of them has three twin beds and we're any of us prepared to sleep on the floor, and they have lofts! Lofts are just awesome at any time. Sadly, Mr Fusion claimed the only loft bed.
And once again it's not that late but we're all wicked tired. Our sleep clocks have a lot of adjusting to do and are maybe mostly done.....
Written Tuesday 19 July:
22 June
- Yeah that is confusing about 2007. I know for a fact, absolutely, that 'Deathly Hallows' came out at midnight on the twenty-first of June, 2007. That was the summer between eighth and ninth grade for me. And I'm pretty sure that we got 'Deathly Hallows' on CD and listened to it in the Majestic. 'Cause the Honda has a tape player. So maybe 2007 was the Majestic transcontinental after all. Which would have made 2006 the Honda transcontinental. Okay, maybe. But 2008 is when we climbed Mount Washington and saw Grammie for the last time, because Grammie died on the twenty-third of January, 2009. So we were in New Hampshire in 2008, and I thought we had gotten there in the Majestic rather than by flying. So I remain confused.
- Heheheh, the white-yolked eggs. As it turns out, all egg yolks in all of Tanzania are always white. Some yellowish white, some as white as the whites of the eggs. They taste the same
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as normal eggs - I discovered that I actually kind of like hard-boiled eggs; I had figured until then that eggs were slightly gross no matter how they were cooked. And in Tanzania, they expected us to eat a lot of eggs. An egg cooked to order at every breakfast, and a hard-boiled egg at every boxed lunch.
- It was actually supposed to be black currant. And we need it in the States.
- Speaking of soda, and the paragraph before the appearance of purple Fanta (about how everything was so beautifully alien and that was the first time we saw what would, over the course of the month, become almost familiar) - A great many of the buildings, like houses and shops and whatnot, were pained with giant Coca Cola advertisements. Sometimes other brands, but usually Coca Cola. Advertisements everywhere - Coca Cola must pay people to let their houses be turned into billboards. It was interesting - Mr Fusion was particularly fascinated - and for some reason it didn't strike me as at all 'wrong.'
Transcribed as faithfully as possible from my handwritten travel journal.
Italics indicate where I have changed or added to what I originally wrote.
Notes and expansions which I have written later, at the back of the journal, will be included along with their appropriate days, labelled with the dates on which they were written.
The handwritten journal uses a format in which the first line of every paragraph is indented and no line is skipped between paragraphs. As I cannot use indents here (or don't know how), I will skip a line between paragraphs, and use two a line of ........ when I skipped a line in the written journal.
Some entries are illustrated. I will do my best to either describe the illustrations or to include some equivalent image.

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- mollymcleah May 5, 2012 03:38 PM
Hi everybody--we are planning a trip through Burgundy in September and were thinking that hooking up with a private or semi-private tour guide might be the most efficient way to bit some wineries and do some tasting. We have both been to Burgundy before and know a little about wine, so we want to avoid a tour targeted at a novice level. I've located some companies that might do what we are looking for via searching the Internet, but din't really know if they are any good, and wonder whether there are some options out there we are missing. Any advice/experience/suggestions? Thanks!
Have a look at Arblaster & Clarke's website - don't have personal experience (maybe someone else does?), but they're specialists in wine tours, with walks built in to ensure a good appetite. One coming up in September: http://www.winetours.co.uk/tours/view....
We're off down there later this month so will keep an ear out for private tours - did you also search this board? I seem to recall mention of a private guide somewhere...
re: Sue Style
We were in Chablis last year, and had one day with guiding. We weere using, http://www.aucoeurduvin.com/, and had a very nice experience. Eric, whos been working at several domaines in Chablis, has a vast knowledge about wines. He made arrangments for tastings (at my favorite producers), took us to the wineyards etc. I can highly recommend him. He is located in Chablis, but I think he can do tours in southern burgundy as well.
I have two suggestions for you. I am a guide in the Rhone Valley, and I have referred clients to two places in Burgundy, and got great feedback on both. I have never used them since I already know Burgundy quite well.
1. Diana Williams,an American, is a former Olympic Athelete and is married to winemaker Alex Gambal.
She has only longer trips on her website but don't hesitate to ask about 1 or 2 day tours; I know that she is happy to do them. If you write, please tell her that Sharon from Vaison referred you.
2. Bourgogne Avec Chauffeur
Some American chef/sommelier clients (And other friends) used them and highly recommend them. Their site looks like they are just chauffeurs, but apparently they have attended wine school.
re: sderham
Hello sderham.
Im going to Alsace this summer, do you got any suggestions on guiding there?
re: jorn77
Sorry, I don't know of anyone there.
re: sderham
Diana also helps plan your entire visit, and recommends hotels and restaurants, whatever you need.
The Burgundy Wine Bureau has tours, tastings, classes at all levels of expertise and interest. I would definitely check them out before you hire anyone else. Their staff is very knowledgeable and they seem to be able and willing to tailor everything to your particular interests, needs, desires. Prices are very reasonable, for a partial day, full day, as long as you wish.
I've used them for special activities when I'm leading my tours in Burgundy. Here's the link to their web site (in English). http://www.burgundy-wines.fr/
re: ChefJune
Hi ChefJune-thank you! Just one question (or two)--would we need to select from their represented wineries on the Website, or is there any chance of getting a visit at Colin-Deleger or Jean-Marc Boillot (or are we just crazy hoping to schedule a visit at either of these)?
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For tastings at wineries such as those you mention, it is best to go through your local wine merchant who can hook you up with their distributor/importers. Those are the folks who can get you into "their" wineries for tastings/tours.
Those specific ones are not on my itinerary, so I can't personally help you with them.
We love Detours in France! We use them every year & feel that they have become friends over time. Several choices of guides & they tailor to your needs. I like that I can tell them exactly what I want to do (nothing crazy mind you like, "Oh we'd like to visit DRC.") or we can give them a general idea & they'll fill in the blanks. We have done the intro type tours quite a few times when we take new friends & even those aren't boring. We also usually have a few days to ourselves where we do something a little different. You can check them out at www.detours-in-france.com.
On topic of food, they always have something great on tap. Last year was the Table d'Chaintre. Lovely!
Jearmy (sp?) Holmes is a great poster on this board for all things Burgundy/wine. He's in the wine biz, so maybe he has recommendations too?
I have not taken part, but some say the "ultimate wine tour" is the Bouilland Symposia in June, led by Clive Coates MW, Becky Wasserman, and Russell Hone.
Hone also does some wine touring for members of the trade. Maybe he could help you.
I'd always thought that September is a terrible time to visit wineries, because they'd be busy with the harvest and wouldn't really have time to properly receive you. My friends and I tend to visit AFTER harvest when the vintage is already in tanks or barrels. Just my 2 cents
re: Peech
Indeed, several times I could not make a reservation at my fave vineyard b&b's because all the rooms have been réquisitionnées for the vendangeurs.
And many vintners are so busy they are incommunicado for half the month in the least.
And Peech, always happy to see you post here, anywhere.
re: ChefJune
Thank you for pointing that out - do you think this is the case even for early September? We will be in Burgundy Sept 6-9.
re: leahknight
In Burgundy, 2010 the vendange started the week of 13th September and last year it started the week of the 5th of September, with many picking before that.
re: leahknight
The vendange period varies every year depending on many factors including the weather evolution of the year. Sometimes the exact dates are not determined until quite late in the summer since, duh, weather happens.
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We were in Puligny-Montrachet on the last 2 days of the vendage in 2008 and found the timing great. There was considerable celebratory buzz throughout the village on the night of the last day of harvest; like what you would expect on New Years Eve - crowds of inebriated workers and cars circling the village with horns honking. It was fun to be an observer to that local culture. Note, however, that we were not trying to get entree to small, exclusive wineries. We stayed at the hotel associated with the Olivier LeFlaive winery and toured both the vineyards and cellars, as well as partaking of the wine & food pairing menus in their restaurant.
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That would be very interesting.
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re the Leflaive experience: just returned from a long w/e in Burgundy (and now on the wagon/shock diet for a week...) and tho we didn't stay at Olivier Leflaive, we had the tasting lunch. Our experience was similar to Masha's, so it seems not much has changed in 3 years. The cellar tour is worthwhile, led by Olivier Leflaive (delightful, relaxed, funny, excellent Fedora-type hat) and a lovely Aussie guy - skilfully done to cater for all levels of knowledge and interest. The lunch menu is E25 and ours was patchy - the gougeres to start with were yum, puffed, cheesy and bite-sized, straight from the oven. Decent starter was a riff on jambon persillé but done with tuna, lightly citrussy, not too jellified, good. Main course was [industrial, soft, tasteless chicken breast rolled around something in a pink 'sauce estivale' with overcooked Basmati, and it was cold. Cheeses were excellent, arranged on a slate, 3 different goats, a well-aged Comté, an oozy Citeaux (cf Reblochon) and a Soumaintrain, good and smelly. Choccy mousse was rich and dark but don't do puds much. We took the 5-wine pairing, thinking a) 5 wines would do us nicely and b) the next option, 9 wines, didn't offer significantly more/different than the 5 (and one thing it did add was an Aligoté which seldom contributes anything, except perhaps to a Kir). The wines are introduced by either Olivier, his daughter Julie, or the Aussie or another French sommelier - extremely well done, not burdensome or boring, just involving you in the story of where, how, why the wine is the way it is. Verdict: food's not the thing here, it's the whole visit, tasting, atmosphere. They do a good job. Then you can go round to Le Montrachet just up the road for dinner (didn't have time/enough meals, but our B&B owners, Les Sept Nains at Flagny, close to La Rochepot, love it and rate it highly). And while on Burgundy in general, Ma Cuisine was a highlight: jambon persillé up there with the best: succulent deep pink ham chunks and brilliant green parslied interstices, then an entrecote for my husband (perfect cuisson, & not bad for a French steak - tho' I'm with Yves-Marie Le Bourdonnec who claims that British is best and French tends to toughness becos of the age of the beasts when finished) and a demi-poussin for me. Wine list is awesome and there are even a few good 1/2 bottles and some by the glass. Delightful welcome, would go back any time. And the Beaune Saturday market is fun too - do a raid for picnic provisions and plan a picnic lunch if you're into that kind of thing and the weather is kind in September.
re: masha
Sure. It was 3+ years ago so the details are a bit hazy. And, I confess that I am not that knowledgeable about wines in general or white Burgundies in particular. My husband knows wine, but is more of a red wine guy. We just like getting off the beaten path, into the villages and enjoying good food & drink.
The tours of the vineyard and of the cellar were plenty informative for us. Indeed, the vinoculture guide was probably disappointed by the simplistic questions that we asked; but he was very patient and answered them all. The tour of the cellar took us right into the production facility, where grapes were being moved on a large conveyer directly from the trucks in the parking lot; that was one of the pluses of being present for vendage. Indeed, we were invited to climb up on a large metal scaffolding above the vats and use a manual crushing device (picture a hybrid between a rake & potato masher) to participate in the initial crushing of the grapes -- not quite Ethel & Lucy stomping them in bare feet, but still fun to do. That was followed by a tour of the cellars themselves, by one of the senior members of the LeFlaive family, who explained the entire aging & storing process.
As to the hotel, the room itself was very comfortable -- spacious, good size with a gorgeous bathroom with lovely soaps etc. As I recall, the WiFi signal was weak, but there was also hardwired Internet available; that's about the most negative thing I recall about the accomodations.
As to the food & drink, the package that we signed up for included both dinner the night we arrived and then the paired tasting of wine (14 wines?) & food for lunch the next day. This was probably the most disappointing part of the trip because the food, although not bad, was unexceptional. We much preferred the dinner that we had the second night down the street at Le Montrachet, which was one of the best meals that we had on that trip.
Overall, we had a great time and would recommend it. And, because LeFlaive is consciously oriented toward "vino-tourism," going during the vendage is no problem.
re: mangeur
Thanks. I was being apologetic mainly because I cannot recall any of the details of the food served at either LeFlaive or le Montrachet, which strikes me as a flaw for a report to ChowHound.
We have been guided by Mike McAndrew (http://www.frenchwineroutes.com/) both in Burgundy and Champagne. He is very good at finding and setting up tastings with small producers. His quarterly newsletter about wine, food and life living in Puligny Montrachet is now in a "blog", http://frenchwineroutes.blogspot.com/. The best part is Mike and Maxine are wonderful people.


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I tend to fall more on EH than than avoidance typically, but to be fair, neither side is really giving any concrete evidence. I am actually not sure you could give any real concrete evidence that one is superior or not honestly. It's a tough nut to mathematically prove one or the other in such a way that the general community is in agreement. I'm not sure we really want to do the whole EH versus avoidance discussion in this thread though.
This is for Edgewalker and yourself, with the utmost respect in this statement, I sure your raid groups are of some of the best geared and best raiders in the realms. It shows in your dedication and achievements to the fullest and your sharing your knowledge and expertise is applauded for the opportunity to talk with some of the best.
But 80% of us don't have the supporting cast you do. We don't have healer's with 30k plus heals and 9K plus dps that can down adds in 10 seconds or clear ICC in 1/2 hour. I know I can't and my group cant, we're working to get there, but we're not even close. So if I could walk into ICC10 with 60K plus and 2 to 3 healers busting off 30K plus heals yeah I'd stack stam and laugh at the need for avoidance too. Hell at that point I might even tank with a 2 hander in ret spec while def. capped.
At that level your right it's not needed, your healers do the job of keeping you alive. At my level I have to do everything possible to help that scenario and me taking the least amount of damage as possible while meeting the EH threshold allows my group to pull through. I mt'd with 43K-45K health full clear and the wipes were never due to tank death on my part, we replaced our bear because the healers were straining to keep him alive at 60K during certain phases and fights.
To more clearly illustrate where we are raid wise, we hit the enrage timer on DBS on 10 man our first attempt and downed him due to a very fortuitous string of misses, dodges and parry's and a bubble. Probably will never happen again, anecdotal circumstance, stupid good luck, but we got the kill and the achieves due to my avoidance and some good RNG luck.
As is said in my edit I agree, stam is important, and the majority of your statements hold great weight, but for a large population of readers that don't have the supporting cast you do, it isn't always practical. And saying avoid is a jester/joke is just pointing lower and middle raiders who take everything you say literally and to heart, to try end game content and be frustrated while they say, But Edge said avoid is a joke in his post so I stacked all stam and no avoidance, why am I dying?
What I stated in the trash pull test is a great tool for guilds to test their tanks and healers to determine the greatest survivability and tank possibilities with the tools and gear they have at their disposal. I can understand why a pure stam tank would call it anecdotal and inconsequential though, after all I'd hate to be that numbers speaking worse tank too.
Except they won't die.But Edge said avoid is a joke in his post so I stacked all stam and no avoidance, why am I dying?
Pretty much every tank gets more than enough avoidance from gear. People seem to have this idea that stacking stamina means you have no mitigtion/avoidance.
Especially with bears. Your anecdote on the 60k bear getting replaced makes no sense, since said 60k bear almost certainly had much more armor than the 45k tanks, and probably about as much avoidance.
There's some huge misconception that bears have horrible avoidance, and Chill drops them to 0% somehow. Someone in my guild made this same assertion, and I had to speak up and say, "Uhh, with Chill I'm still at 30%+ effective avoidance before procs/trinkets, sir."
Jeff "bear" is one of those who took stack stam never avoid to heart his thoughts were "well the healers are spamming greater heal on me anyways so it's a waste of mana and overheals if I'm not getting hit cause they are casting it anyways". Pre nerf he was at 36% dodge and 7% miss without procs etc. After nerf he was at 16% dodge and 7% miss. 23% avoidance. The bosses weren't hitting hard enough to kill him it was the adds and trash that were problematic. Deathwhisper 12K shadowbolt, big add hits for 10K other big add hits for 15K other add hits for 10K, healer is preoccupied, next round dead bear. Not saying he suffered from some bad luck avoid wise but after a few deaths on trash and adds he went tree, we got our warrior tank and things went really smooth from there out.
This was in comparison to the warrior and I having almost identical stats, 560+ def ~9-10~ % miss 11% dodge, 20-22 parry and bv's at about 3K not to mention the kickass spell reflect warriors have. So roughly 42% pure avoid and for myself 45-47% block with over a 3K bv (dont know the warriors block rating) he did say his bv was about 3K though. Personally I think the block and BV had alot to do with making the fights much more survivable for us at roughly 80% of the damage was either avoided are mitigated severely. I saw alot of blocks stating 135 damage taken 3200 blocked. Again I'm not trying to say one class is better than the other, but in his case the low avoid was making the adds and trash chew him up really quickly while I could easily hold my own much less healing needed.
(edit) and I apologize for this taking off into a BR/BV vs non BR/BV in that post
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Deathwhisper is a large amount (40% or so last parse) of magical damage as well... a really strange fight to bring up in an avoidance discussion.
I find that extremely hard to believe. Unless he was severely undergeared and using gimmicks like Polar gear to ramp his stamina up to 60k hp levels, there's no way that he's "squishy" and dying to trash in ways that a warrior somehow isn't.
There's unverifiable anecdotes and then there's things that just don't make sense numerically.
Ok? In that same scenario, the 45k hp tank already died before that "next round" because you can't pick and choose when RNG avoidance benefits you. You can't say, "Oh healer is busy, lets roll a lot of parries now."Deathwhisper 12K shadowbolt, big add hits for 10K other big add hits for 15K other add hits for 10K, healer is preoccupied, next round dead bear.
The exact same situation will happen to the avoidance tank when the healer is "occupied" and he'll die in the first round as opposed to the 60k tank dying in the second.
At worst, in nax gear, you should be having dodge in the mid 40s unbuffed. Even in the aforementioned polar gear, if you run heroics for a week, you should be decked out in 5pc T9.0 (ilvl232) or if you spend more time, 245 tier gear, and there is no way you will have that low of a dodge. Even with just 3 pieces, 28 conquest badges for belt, 50 triumph badges for t9 chest, and the boots from heroic ToC, the bear would be pushed into the low 40s.
Yeah, that's part of what I was getting at in terms of numerically unbelievable. The poster in question was talking buffed stats in most of his points, so I can only assume he was doing so in reference to this bear as well...and I don't even see how it's possible in any set of gear - even Polar - to be 60k hp and 36% dodge buffed. Maybe someone can find a set that would meet those two requirements, but I can't imagine what it would be.
I would like to add my thoughts into what has become the current discussion.
I find a quote from Hypatia's The Power of Avoidance to be relevant here:
Ill speak for my class specifically since I play no other tank classes. Today Warriors get plenty of avoidance in the form of equips on our gear (as I would imagine Paladins do, since aside from the Tier we are wearing the same non-Tier Plate items).I believe that Response Time and Burst Time both provide useful new ways to measure the utility of gear for tanking. Specifically, I think that understanding these statistics suggests a balanced approached to gearing, which emphasizes neither excessive levels of Effective Health nor excessive levels of avoidance (except for in certain gimmick fights.)
Over-emphasizing avoidance over Effective Health leads to fights in which the tank cannot survive bursts that inevitably occur. With less avoidance and more EH, these fights would be better survivable because the tank would live through unpreventable bursts. But at the same time, over-emphasizing Effective Health over avoidance leads to fights in which the tank is frequently faced with near-disastrous situations which cannot always be overcome. With less EH and more avoidance, these fights would be better survivable because the frequency of those dangerous situations would be reduced.
No evidence is more compelling that we get enough avoidance from equips alone, than "Chill of the Throne". Though Blizzard takes into account the many ways you can gem/enchant the items available, I seriously doubt they would allow an encounter to become so much easier by just stacking EH or Avoidance gems and enchants, Thus forcing them to implement "Chill of the Throne" based on that alone. As Kazey said gems (and in my opinion enchants as well) are "for the most part are very small and inconsequential."
So with gems and enchants out of the way we are left to consider the base stats, how many sockets (not what goes in them!), and the equips on the gear itself.
Based on comparisons for current level gear in Warrior are the T10 Set Bonuses Worth It?, some community members have come to some interesting conclusions. Of which I see a rather small difference in the avoidance department.
In it they compared 5 major slots Head, Shoulders, Chest, Gloves, and Legs. The Tier 10 v the Badge/Crafted/Drops and came up with the following.
77 Defense = 1.88% Avoidance before Diminishing ReturnsSo basically you lose 77 defense, 3 dodge, and some threat for a gain of over 3,000 armor and 54 stam and also gain 132 parry.
132 Parry = 2.92% before Diminishing Returns.
Based on your current avoidance levels the Diminishing Returns may vary a bit more than others. I'm not 100% sure how to calculate out how much avoidance/parry you would be left with after subtracting Diminishing Returns so I will not speculate with a random number. But I think they will probably go down dramatically.
This somewhat minor difference in 5 major pieces (the bulk and backbone of your entire gear set) shows me that you can basically swap out EH for Avoidance trinkets/rings/necks for a so called "Avoidance fight" and still come out relatively the same.
EDIT: The bigger picture I'm trying to figure out here is whether I should be focusing on more Stamina or more Armor for my physical damage gear set. The original reason this thread attracted my attention.
Last edited by Bodasafa; 12-17-2009 at 04:26 PM.
There is something so appealing about backhanding someone across the face with a shield.
Felhoof's work involving Polar Set on a bear, working out to 43% dodge. The trick is, Polar gear is only 3 pieces, and the rest of his math has some impressive gear. This guy must have been sporting some impressive stam gear.
We describe ourselves as a casual raiding guild. A little before Coliseum hit, i opened up the question "can we do Ulduar hardmodes? at least in 10man". I got about 5 volunteers, half of them completely believing that we had neither the gear nor the dedication, hell not even the intention, of playing the game at a hardmode level.
We went ahead, ready for a lot of wipes. Wipe we did and slowly we progressed. The real two eye-openers for us were Mimiron and especially Algalon. Those bosses require a gameplay level that we thought practically impossible. That description on the algalon fight "whatever you think spamming the tank is, it's not enough" is very accurate. And not just healing. Same thing goes for dps. Just as an example, during that 1 hour period, the average dps of the group increased by about 25%. Same people, same day, same gear. 25% increase - something they thought just wasnt possible.
Up until that time, our guild was progressing though tank power. The tanks had the best gear, itemized for the best possible balance of avoidance & EH. It was easier to gear up 2-3 tanks that way than the whole of our healers. So we usually progressed (and i'm talking all the way from vanilla) with tanks of the best gear & healers 2-3 tier levels lower. Yes, the tanks were doing exactly what you say - doing their damnest to stay alive.
After Algalon, all our players are playing substantially better. We no longer progress through tank power & overstacked healing. On a progression fight we'd always go with 3 tanks & 7-8 healers. On saurfang, we went in with 5. Once you know how hard you can push all your team - and they're willing to be pushed - then stacking stamina becomes the norm (as everybody is saying, you still get enough avoidance from gear). Nowadays i'm gearing for threat even, instead of stam, because i know if i die, the healers will start working harder and actually become better at what they do. I'm not slacking, i'm just not absorbing.
@Bodasafa: I dont agree with counting gems & enchants inconsequential. Imo the major part of the reason for Chill of the Throne is Blizzard itemizing Ulduar & Coliseum gear with the thinking gemslots would be filled with at best, rare gems. Once you start gemming with epics, socketed but inferior itemlevel gear significantly overshoots higherlevel, nonsocketed gear. Gems & enchants individually might not be much. When you add all the available slots on all slots, then they become a major parameter.
Be careful, EH is stamina AND armor (AND RESISTANCES DAMNIT!). You should have written, "...more stamina or more Armor and why?"
OK, inc wall'o'text crit.
So the question I have are as follows:
1) is there a realistic situation where you have more stamina than armor to the point where the armor is better? Your spreadsheet shows numbers of where this occurs, but what kind of gear setup would that be? The gear inherently has a lot of armor, to the point were you are hitting significant diminishing returns on armor and it takes less stamina for it to be the more valuable stat? I say this without actual minimum requirements for specific dungeons, just armor sets which would actually do this. The only way I can come up with this is the proverbial stam socketed polar set with brewfest trinkets.
2) 240 armor vs 18 stam on gloves.
The 240 armor will inherently lose to the EH battle to 18 stam, simply because they never made an update to the 240 in WotLK except by engineering. The budget just isn't there. If you compare apples to apples, namely the heavy knothide kit (10 stam), then you have a chance. Yet people choose the 240 armor over 18 stam in some cases, because it isn't about the tank surviving, it's about who is responsible for tank surviving.
If you are the avoidance tank, you are leaving your fate to lady luck, by precisely how much avoidance you have. If you are a mitigation tank (high armor/high block/high resistance), then you are putting the fate in your own hands by passive means, which I believe is the best way. If you are the proverbial meatbag, you are in essence demanding your healer to constantly heal you, and in reality, that is fine if Satorri's initial assessment is correct, that healer mana is not an issue. The problem is, that healer mana IS an issue, for the following reasons:
1) Insufficient healers (killed in action, aggressive raid composition ,etc.).
2) Something is diverting their attention (the DPS standing in the fire), and forcing them to spend their mana on the tank AND the DPS at a rate greater than they can sustain. No matter how you gear your tank or how good your healer is, if your DPS is stupid everybody suffers (or you spend 45 minutes doing the 25m safety dance with one tank and one healer. Yes, I did this back in the day).
3) Healers are undergeared. And really, everybody is considered undergeared to varying degrees until you essentially trivialize the content by virtue of your gear (i.e. on farm status)
4) DPS is underperforming/undergeared, and they cannot meet DPS races/enrage timers. Solved only by having healers+tanks who trivialize the content or gear/train the DPS.
All this is contingent really on meeting minimum avoidance/mitigation/EH targets for the content, which in a rough manner is accomplished by having the appropriate gear for the content (ilvl 200 for nax25/U10, 213-219 for U25, 226 for ToC/Ony 10, 232 for ToC25/Ony25/ICC10, etc.), modified by little things like meeting caps, gearing/gemming/enchanting/glyphing/buffing appropriately, etc. to weed out the inexperienced. Those who say stam stacking is necessary for ToGC pre-ICC gear era are really saying the following:
1) There aren't enough non-stam EH options for us to take available and meet minimum Time To Live (TTL) requirements for the content, such as armor kits, resistance gear, etc., as Hydross/Mother Shahraz/Saphiron are the last bosses made where you could stack content appreciable mitigation and make it work (Sarth needed level 70 FR gear, I wont' count that).
2) Due to diminishing returns on avoidance/mitigation, the amount of avoidance/mitigation needed to make an appreciable change to your TTL is not possible given the number of enchants/sockets/etc. available.
3) Most importantly, they suggest that through pure stam stacking, they can reach the magical state where they can live for one more hit. Put another way, if the gear allows them to survive 2.9 hits, and stam stacking changes this by 5%, then we have a solution. A 5% is normally a negligible amount on its own, but if it pushes you past the integer 3+ hits, that last 5% is huge.
Blizzard seems to tune the raid bosses to fix this, rather than gear. What would happen if in cataclysm, all stamina gems were eliminated, leaving only patches and enchants. Then what? Whenever people argue about stam stacking, very few people on both sides argue a stamina enchant over anything else, but a gemming choice is sure to spark a debate. That's because the enchanting alternatives to stam, frankly, suck, so it is mostly cookie cutter. (the exception is probably the eng glove enchant). But if that's all you had, and you couldn't gem for stamina, that would REALLY be a great way to force people to consider gemming instead of mindless stam stack.
See, the problem is this is why EHP is better in my opinion. You said yourself that if you stack avoidance you are relying on RNG to stay alive. If a DPS or healers get boned on marrowgar, then you have to be able to live longer. I cannot count the number of times I've done Ony with PuGs and I've seen my self at 1k health b/c of bad healers and dps. But because I have the extra gear, health, and mitigation, I'm able to be kept alive. I've also done a LOT of PuGs on my warlock alt with tanks that I inspect, and quietly /facepalm, but I realize it's Ony so I don't really say anything, but those tanks end up dying if things don't go according to plan. Having more EHP above the supposid "minimum requirements" gives your healers a buffer to catch up, and has saved myself repair bills on many an occasion. I say this because it is rarely a tradeoff between armor and stamina, it's a trade off between avoidance and EHP, because well... you can't gem for armor (don't get picky with me on agi).The problem is, that healer mana IS an issue, for the following reasons:
1) Insufficient healers (killed in action, aggressive raid composition ,etc.).
2) Something is diverting their attention (the DPS standing in the fire), and forcing them to spend their mana on the tank AND the DPS at a rate greater than they can sustain.
I was going to respond to the rest of your post, but this is what it comes down to.
If you're talking about TTL or "Time to Live" for EHP, that is assuming full to dead without heals. From an EHP standpoint (armor vs. stamina) if it is all physical damage, it doesn't matter whether it's armor or stamina as long as one gives more EHP than the other. Say you are using heart of iron over glyph of indominability. Heart of Iron calculates as more EHP for me than glyph, therefore my TTL is longer if I use heart of iron instead of glyph of indominability.
Edit: I'd also like to introduce you to my friend, the overhealing column: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/d...?s=3205&e=3677
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