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(CNN) -- Several Israeli government websites appeared to crash as anti-Israeli hackers launched cyberattacks Sunday, but Israeli hackers also claimed their own victory.
The website that promoted the "OpIsrael" cyberattacks was itself hacked. Instead of anti-Israeli messages, it was playing Israel's national anthem, "Hatikvah."
A group calling itself Anonymous Arab said in a YouTube video posted last week its cyberattack plan would come in three phases.
"Step one will be initiated after the release of this message and will be comprised of systematically removing the Zionist entity from the Internet," a speaker said in Arabic. The video shows a masked person appearing to read.
"Step two, we will discover your future plans and show your crimes against humanity to the whole world," the speaker said. ""And as for step three, well think of this one as a present from Anonymous to you."
It concluded: "We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. Expect us."
The websites for Israel's Knesset and elections agency appeared to be down Sunday.
Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, the head of the Israel's National Cyber Directorate, downplayed the effects of the cyberattacks in an interview Sunday with Israel Radio.
"As was expected, up until now there has been no real damage, and the hackers don't have the tools to cause damage to the vital infrastructures," Yisrael said.
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I wrote a post on tanking in my guilds forums, having in mind some freinds with tanking alts and offspecs, in which tried to cover basic tanking mechanics. I figured that, having written it all, i might post it here case it could help anyone.
Id like to clarify that i am not trying to be original, and most (if not all) of the ideas in my text i read here in tankspot forums. Additionaly, i am not trying to be a theorycrafter. Being just a "rambling", i do not intend to propose game mechanics that are not already widely accepted. Hence, I am not giving proof for conclusions i make or the assumptions on how game mechanics work, and only attempt to follow a logical stream of thought. Ill be abstaining from any possible following discussion in the replies, though will naturally be thankfull if someone points out something that is conclusively incorrect.
At last I apologize for my poor writing skill. The last time i started a post in the forum, i felt it was very badly received by the comunity and i beleive the blame is in bad text formating and poorly constructed sentances and misspelled english. Im trying to improve this by doing exactly what i am, practicing.
Following is the post as in my guild forum.
Now that i finnaly got full combat table coverage i began to wonder how i would itemize my gear with further upgrades, and felt like "speaking aloud" so to speak, and posting my conclusions here in the forums.
Disclaimers: this was written with mostly paladin tanks in mind. Many concepts apply to all tanks, specially warriors, but there are variations that are not explored or discussed (damage avoidance for non-block tanks, etc).
ctc - combat table coverage
Wotlk - wrath of the lich king
icc - ice crown citadel
cata - cataclysm
oom- out of mana
Case any non-tanks might read this ill give breif explanations on tanking mechanics.
----Basic tanking concepts
Firstly a quick reminder of what tanking means: The tanks responsability is to guarantee the safety of the party or raid team by taking the bulk of the damage. This is done through two basic game concepts.
The first is to make sure the enemy is atacking you instead of your freinds. This is commonly known as threat and i will not discuss greatly as it is presently not a great concern since the recent buff blizz gave all tanks increasing threat generation from 300% extra aggro to 500% extra aggro (from defensive stance, bear form, righteous fury or blood presence).
Ok. so the thing is hitting you. Great. Now your not supposed to die since, if dead, the foe will go back to squishing your freinds. Here comes in the second basic tanking concept which we call survivability. Survivability itself has to be broken down to be properly analyzed:
-Firstly there is Health. This one is easy, when your health reaches zero, your dead. The more health you have, the farther away from zero.
-Secondly there is passively reducing incoming damage. Armor applies to phisical strikes and resistances apply to magical or elemental atacks.
-At last there is avoidance. Avoidace is a RNG (random number generator) dependant defense in which you may or may not take a hit. To better understand them, we must look at how the combat table works.
The combat table
Its a common missconception to think that when you are atacked there are a series of "tests" checking weither you parried, dodged, blocked or the atack missed. To properly prepare your tank its important to understand how a atack is actualy resolved. Blizzard has a giant "table", in our example we will keep it simple and make it numbering from 1 to 100. Each of your defenses is assigned to a series of numbers of this table. When atacked, a random number in the table (in our example 1-100) is rolled, and the atack is resolved acordingly. To examplify: Say you have 10% dodge, 15% parry,20% block and the boss misses you 5% of the times.
The table would look like this:
Number Result
1-5 miss
6-15 dodge
16-30 parry
31-50 block
51-100 hit
So if blizzards RNG rolled 60, you took the hit to the face. If they rolled a 7, you dodge it.
Full Combat table coverage means you push hit out of the table by making the other options sufficiently high to fill it in.
A important thing to clarify on block. Block is a avoidance. Its a % chance, and not passive damage mitigation. HOWEVER, when you have full CTC, you can consider every phisical atack against you will be at least blocked. Based on this assumption, theorycrafters consider blocking as phisical damage mitigation *only when you have complete and absolute CTC*, as if it were a phisical damage reduction like armor.
Edit: Tengenstein has pointed out that naming block avoidance is unconvencional and would be incorrect in a serious theoryrafting enviorment. To be "avoidance" it would have to block 100% damage. It is formally seen as phisical mitigation after full CTC, or just "block", a probable mitigation as aggathon named it, if before unhittable.
For anyone curious as why to tanks usualy refer to the magic number 102.4% when reffering to CTC, this is because you lose 0.2% of each avoidance stat each level the boss has over you. For a raid boss its 0.2*3*4 (parry, dodge, block, miss), thus your losing 2.4% avoidance, and must have 102.4% to cover it properly.
During WotLK - Stam stacking optimality
From WotLK to cata, many things changed drasticly. Firstly, having full CTC in Wotlk was impossible exept for Paladins with a special gear set (holy shield used to give giant block chance increase, and have 100% uptime). Even with this, blocking worked differently, and instead of absorving a 30% of the hit, it absorved a fixed amount of damage which, on bosses, was almost irrelivant (any wise-crack mentioning anub should know the unhittable heroic anub tank set was for tanking adds. Im talking about bosses here). Avoidances were further crippled by the chill of the throne debuff in ICC reducing dodge by 20% (dodge was our highest avoidance back then).
Another very important change that severley affected tanking at the time was healers mana. A Healer in WotLK would usualy spam flash heal non stop on their tanks and not go OOM.
This allowed and incentivated tanks to fully gem, enchant and choose trinkets for stamina and properly tank, receiving a constant flow of big heals as their health dropped. Case someone reading up to this point wonders, "Nice, they can get away with stam stacking, but wouldent preventing a hit altogether with more dodge be better?", ill attempt to explain why tanks chose not to further on.
Early on in Cata many tanks (and their healers) suffered from old WotLK mentality. Healers mana regeneration was significantly nerfed with the expantion, spell costs increased, and a healer could not afford to spam flash heal (or whatever fast,big and expensive they had) constantly as before. A healer spamming flash heal would be dooming his party by going OOM. Likewise, a tank who took every hit to the face and forced such aggresive healing to prevent his death, due to itemization choices (stam stacking) also sealed his groups fate.
It became clear that tanks needed to decrease damage intake to be healable consistently throughout a fight. New block mechanics allowed tanks to cover a significant (and later on all) of the combat table, and it became clear blizzards intention was to see tanks blocking hits often.
The critical point - RNG
The problem i see now a days is that just as everyone used to stack stam in icc without knowing why, tanks today stack mastery just because they see others do it or are told to. Stam stackers are shunned universally in memory of early cata in which that early mentality really did prove fatal to many early dungeon finder users.
Why do we need full combat table coverage? Isint 95% of it good enough? After all, you will only get hit 5% of the time. Why is a tank stacking stamina worse?
Its statistics.
Imagine yourself holding a 6 sided die and telling me "Im going to roll three 6s in three rolls". Slim chance bud. Its 1/6*1/6*1/6 = 1/216. However, if you hold the same die and tell me "Im going to roll this 10.000 times and sometime you will see three 6s in a row", your making a damn good bet: You have over 99% chance of being right on, simply because of trial and error.
Where does tanking come in?
Its simple. Lets go back to WotLK. Inside ICC, it was impossible for any class to have full ctc. Even if it where possible, a large portion (more then 30%) would be block. At the time blocking was from 1.5K-2.5K damage reduction. Its not hard to see this is not very much when heroic lich king is hitting you for 70K.
Because its impossible to have *full* coverage, during the course of a long fight (Eg: 10m LK fight), you can expect that sometime in there you will see a "worse case scenario". Even if you have 90% CTC, sometime you will get hit 5 times in a row. If you dont have enough health to soak up this damage, to give healers enough of a time buffer to cast their heals on you, your going down. This is why tanks stacked stam in ICC, and they were RIGHT to do it. They couldent possibly prefent the worse case scenarios from happening (by having full CTC), so, they make sure that when they do see it, they arent going down easy.
Now in cata, we have the obligation to get full CTC. We can prevent this "worse case scenario". But once we have full CTC, what then? You could start swaping blocks for crit blocks, parrys, dodges, trying to push out the smaller 30% damage reduction from the table as well!! You could. But its wrong.
Remember the first lines of this post, when we discussed the tanks "job"? If you re-read on survivablity, im sure you already agreed its our "job" to not die. This does not mean its our job to take the least possible damage, and how people are confusing the two now a days, with all of the "omg stack mastery" mentality!
This because, unless you can indeed push out normal block from the hit table (for paladins it is impossible and will alweys be - we cant get 70% dodge and parry to make up for all the mastery), there will still be a worse case scenario in which all of that extra avoidance wont matter! And when it comes, you better have sufficiently high health buffer to take it!
Therefore, after hitting CTC, tanks go back to their old time freind: Stamina.
If someone did not understand or disagrees (im arrogant enough to state that these two are the same thing in this case. You only wont agree if you didint understand), here is a example.
Say your fighting heroic Ragnaros. Both your tanks have full CTC, but tank A has 50% dodge+parry+miss(this is very high), and 180K hp buffed, the other, tank B, has only 35%(average, 15 dodge, 15 parry, 5 miss), and 200K buffed HP.
Now, heroic rag´s fire trap deals 90K raidwide damage, and hits tanks for 70K (this is speculation. reg hits for 60, im guessing 70 on heroic), so lets consider the worse case scenario of having a trap go off and the tank getting hit imedeatly afterwards, and only blocking this atack (both have full CTC, so at least a block they will get). This obviously happens to both tanks since, even though tank A has 15% more avoidance, he still just blocks 50% of the time. This means 130K damage (90K from trap + 40K from a blocked hit). Alhough he can eat these hits with 50K hp to spare, tank A isint in a particularly confortable situation. Hes taking ticks from the tank debuff (normaly damaging from 5K/sec to 20K/sec depending on stacks) and before a heal lands may have as low as 30K hp. if the healer laggs one second and he is hit again, hes dead. Tank B has a more confortable buffer. he can take a tick and another atack before a heal lands and still wont die. Its easy to think of similar worse case scenarios, like your dedicated healer having to run from a boulder on P3, or running to avoid a wave. Its your obligation as a tank to make sure your giving this healer a health buffer that can give him time to do this safely, without depending on lucky rng and having you dodge that critical atack. Anyone arguing "thats what cooldowns are for" is being somewhat naive. Cooldowns help diminish incoming damage you are aware of, and are not alweys available. Worse case scenarios can be unforseen (including human or tecnical mistakes - healer dced, he missclicked, you stood on fire, whatever), and even if you pop a cd on every forseeable one, you will run out of CDs (Eg: cant pop a cd every trap).
Aditionaly, more health might prevent bad mana and cooldown use from healers since, after eating those hits, you will have more health relative to your total, they wont feel desparate. Tank A would get a lay on hands and three flash heals from every healer in range when dropping to 30K(1/6th of his bar). But tank B would still be at 50K(1/4th of his bar, and healers would feel allright to use more "normal", and mana effective, healing).
The fundamental point im trying to make is that you will be harder to heal if you have less avoidance, but, as long as your healer can keep you up without going OOM, its sufficient, and more is a waste unless you can make another drastic change to the combat table. In our example, healers would feel tank A is easier to heal, but tank B will ultimately die less.
He will die less because he touched a vital point in tanking, one that takes a while to realize exists. He is diminishing the impact of RNG. Tanks are a raids first and main shield against bad RNG. You stack mastery early on because you dont want to depend on the chance you will take the hit to the face. At some point, you stop increaing your avoidance simply because health is a safe investment. It might in average make you take less damage, but its alweys there.
Tank B may take more damage then tank A, but he wont leave dying to chance.
Edit: Further down in the discussion thread Airowird pointed out some theorycrafting i was not aware of relating the benefit to survivability by increasing avoidance and increasing stamina. Link to the theorycrafting added at the end of the post. I stand to the concepts explained superficialy on this post, but do not take it as solid proof that stacking stam after CTC is optimal, this may be incorrect.
Well, thats all. Im gratefull to anyone who read all of this and hope you enjoyed it.
Links - further info
My absolute all time favoret post ever on tanking mechanics discussion. Its outdated (written for ICC), but most tanking mechanics have not changed and the concepts here explained are valid and enlightening (I learned many of the concepts im trying to pass from this link).
Also contains imortant concepts such as EH(effective health) and TTL (time to live), which i did not cover due to diminished availability and quality of mitigation stats (armor and resistance).
Weekly marmot treating RNG and how to deal with it, one of the most interesting wow discussions i have ever seen on the net, and that inspired me to use RNG as a argument for explaining tanking principles:
I think everyone, specially our raid leaders (dark, keid) should really really watch this!
Added link (thanks to Airowird -scroll down for his post).
Last edited by aresius; 10-02-2011 at 04:02 PM.
where's the ten pages?
Calling Block Avoidance is counter to the standard terminology.
Great post, thank you that took time to type all this out. Agree with every word. Only thing to note, it will be interesting to see if warriors will be able to push normal block off the table in the next expansion. This may again change things.
Coming from a heroic mode tanking Warrior, I can tell you that more health is not really improving anything if you have the gear to be "hit-immune". It sounds good in theory to have more health once you reach full CTC, but since you are tanking with a 30-60% shield-wall for physical damage anyway, the worst case scenario is already easy enough to heal. And on the few challenging fights in terms of tank damage, healer-mana is/was an issue. A CTC-tank dying isn´t/wasn´t.
Your Ragnaros heroic example isn´t really a good example, because the numbers are off and you describe a situation that would end in the tanks death no matter if he had 20k health more or less, because you assume the absence of any healing (not even HoTs) and the tank not using CDs while he can´t be healed for quite some time. All healers also are able to heal some while moving.
The worst case scenario is:
50k hit (30% blocked)
18k tick Burning Wound
90k trap damage (no CDs, just 10% resist)
50k hit (30% blocked)
18k tick Burning Wound
226k damage within 2.x seconds
Lesson? If your tank isn´t healed and he doesn´t pop CDs when he gets massive amounts of damage, he dies. You usually can´t stack enough HP to take on "one more big hit" of anything. Also, you make these worst case scenarios a lot more likely. A CTC-capped Warrior gets to ~60% critical block chance already and I wouldn´t trade that for some more HP.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=71405 versus http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/76988/c...ate-chestguard for instance.
12% baseline block & critblock
180 mastery adds 1.5% block & critblock
We can utilise ~50% of the rating gains (other half being other stats), add ~ 75 rating on trinkets (over 391 ones) and we should end at a 500 mastery gain, unless everything is itemised perfectly (~800). That's up to 5000 mastery rating raidbuffed, but nowhere near the ~ 10600 mastery required to get to the 100% critical blocks
@ Rowdy
With stamina sockets and two stamina trinket i'd be at ~ 240k . We even pop three traps at once to maximise healer's mana (running without Replenishment, yay!) and come out nowwhere near your 90k trap damage in reality. Assuming that a tank won't pop a cooldown for a controlable incoming spike is absurd.
Last edited by klausi; 10-01-2011 at 07:46 AM.
And the other stats?
I was not clear. I don't mean permanently, but temporarily as a powerful cooldown combining SB with some trinket like Apparatus.
I mentioned i had paladins more in mind. In their case im convinced getting more dodge/parry is worse then getting health (Im irresponsably not doing the math atm, but i beleive its around somewhere from 3-8% more avoidance for 20-40K more health tradeoff).
I beleived warriors were not able to push the normal block off the hit table (keeping only crit block), but, if i am wrong and this is possible, then your definitly right. 60% less daamage per hit in absolute worse case scenario is freakin awesome to a point id call it overpower (one of the reasons i did not beleive blizz would let it happen). If its "just" 60% crit block chance, im not "exaggerating" worse case scenarios. Block chances are usualy about 70% of any full ctc tank´s hit table. 40% of that is around 30% of total incoming atacks. Therefore, roughtly 1 out of three atacks are normal 30% blocks (another 1/3 are avoid, and 1/3 are crit blocks). Do i really need to give mathematical proof to show you that with a 30% chance of getting a simple block, its going to happen alot in a 10 min long fight?
Thanks for the constructive criticism!
Last edited by aresius; 10-01-2011 at 11:38 AM. Reason: fixing bad engrish!
Im unconfortable calling it mitigation while its still RNG dependant (aggathon calls it "probable mitigation").
Though now you got me re-thinking, it may be wrong a mistake to call it avoidance since, differently from parry or dodge, you dont actualy avoid the hit.
Still, when I chose to call it a avoidance i did so basicly because block shows up in the combat table. Blocking something makes you not take a "hit" in the table. Instead you take a "blocked hit", or a "crit blocked hit". And for the argumentation i was making, it was more interesting to group block up with avoidances then with static mitigation.
Last edited by aresius; 10-01-2011 at 11:33 AM. Reason: fixing typos.
Its always amazing when people tell me how an encounter I am progressing looks, when they have never even tried it
Honestly, there are things like tank- and healer-cooldowns, instant-heals and overall good play. If you have to compensate skill with stacking stamina, you won´t even see fights were this becomes a real issue. If I´d be stacking more stamina, my healers would kill me and we likely would have had several wipes due to healers being OOM on Baleroc (pre-nerf) or on our Ragnaros heroic progress.
To the point of "its easy to be CTC-capped": it may be for a Paladin and reasonable for a Night-Elf Warrrior. But if you are a non-NE Warrior, its actually pretty hard. My gear is pretty good and I am just slightly above the 102.4% with raid-buffs, food and the elixier. With BiS-gear, I probably could change two or three gems and one trinket to more stamina, but not much more. But then again I´d have more HP because of the better gear anyway.
I am not saying it is wrong, I just don´t get how your healers and you are somehow unable to react to some rare and challenging situations and your solution is "stack more stamina" instead of "communictae, pop a CD and preserve mana".
I'm not even sure what's being argued here. Seems like everyone agrees that CTC is good, and stamina surely doesn't HURT anything, so...what're we talking about?
But Ragnaros isn't a good example, tank damage isn't THAT bad (peaking to 12-14k during phase 4 once in a while, average 7.5k) - i actually tank him with several dps pieces plus strength food/flask to push 1 meteor more reliable. What can cause problems is tank damage combined with lots of raid damage from time to time (eg during second transition) or phase 4 with odd trap positionings or before the first frost patch even spawned.
Full CTC is overvalued here because regulary you won't tank him for longer than 20s(-30s), that's enough time to squeeze in a shield block and 4 piece covering 66-100% leaving you with a maximum of 10 seconds vulnerable to back to back regular hits - more likely it's way less (especially if you watch out for his World in Flame or Hammer cast when he actually hits nobody at all) because you want as few burning wound stacks as possible. At the end of a 11-12 minutes fight i find myself at less than 10 regular melee attacks including the ones from Molten Elementals.
Last edited by klausi; 10-01-2011 at 05:14 PM.
You're trying to shoehorn stuff into boxes how you like, and that isn't the consensus that's been reached over the years. Blocks a strange creature, just give it it's own box.
First of all, you assume healers can keep you up without any issues. This means that your assumption also includes that either a) Healers can always do more healing than the boss can do in DPS or b) you have a self-preserving CD always available which you can use AFTER a certain amount of damage has already been dealt to you (or you are phychic and know when that streak is coming).
I hope I don't need to explain the issues with those assumptions.
Secondly, and this is the part I've spent dozens if not hundreds of hours thinking and modelling about, there is a balancing point between avoidance and stamina at a certain point. When does Tank A in your example have enough health or when does Tank B just sit on miles and miles of green bar that never gets used? And what are the odds that Tank A will actually get such a streak in a Xs window compared to Tank B? Is it the same, or half as often? (in your example, it's 40% more likely Tank B will actually be in this danger zone compared to Tank A, so while A will have less HP left, he'll be in such a dangerous situation less often) These are things I find missing in your explanation.
So far, the best model that takes all of this into account is still the Burst Time model which is especially true once you hit Unhittable (or you don't tank with a shield). While it doesn't take healing into account directly, it focuses on reducing the frequency spikes (emergency heals are less efficient = healers OOM faster) as well as allowing healers to cast slow big heals through your bigger health pool.
And finally (and this is my biggest issue) :
Your post seems to dictate a simplistic model of "stack Mastery untill Unhittable, then stack Stamina". This is relatively short-sighted, as you do not even make a difference between gemming and reforging (can't reforge to Stamina) and the value of Armour (which usually makes a higher ilvl Dodge/Parry item atleast as good as a lower Dodge/Mastery one)
Here's the complete runthrough of gearing from hitting 85 to killing heroic Chinwing
The point of starting with Mastery as a new tank (any class really) is double:
First of all, it helps you smooth out damage which makes it easier on the healer(s). We're talking miles away from Unhittable here.
Secondly, it reduces more damage than avoidance will (except some 325 geared Warriors, but once they hit heroics it's the same for them as well), which puts it over Dodge/Parry for damage reduction, even without the first argument. And as Mastery has no DR, it will be increasingly better than full avoidance stats as you gear up (especially true for Warriors)
Now assume your shield tank is coming close to Unhittable, the chance to be fully hit is low (<10%) and your Block chance will be around 50% which will result in the perception that Block is not a reduced hit anymore, but a full hit is a bigger-than-normal hit ( 145%, close to Crushing Blows). At a point close to Unhittable, the chance of these happening is actually pretty low, but nothing beats guarantees for a tank, and capping that block is worth it, especially because Mastery still reduces more damage than avoidance will. Even if it's just a 0.1% chance you'll 'fall over and die', you'ld rather not have that chance at all.
Now comes the important part:
What to do after Unhittable? As you can't really get more Armour, your only options are Avoidance vs Stamina (by reforging extra Mastery back to Dodge/Parry or regemming to Stamina) and it is exactly at this point that the Burst Time model comes into play. It is important at this point to not only have enough HP for big streaks, but also to try and reduce these streaks as much as you can, and at 30-35% avoidance, you are starting to hit the big slope of reducing those odds. The exact value of the available stats largely depends on your gear and the boss you're progressing on, but I could make a general suggestion that the first thing to look at once you hit Unhittable is to start gemming more towards any socket bonus you skipped before (except expertise/hit). Because generally speaking, the value of avoidance and HP at this point are close enough that an extra 10 stat points from the bonus is easily worth the gem change. But really, there is no exact order of stats similar to what DPS or even healers have (e.g. hit/exp caps or Spirit regen just enough for the longest fight)
Addendum: Critical Block
I specificly ignored Crit Block in virtually all of the above, simply because it is too specific for this discussion. But for those that are interested: Crit Block gives Mastery an exponentially increasing value. This means that unlike Paladins, Mastery past Unhittable on Warriors does still provide extra damage reduction, but only at a rate of ~20-25% of it's pre-Unhittable gain, making it as bad as Strength. This means that unlike with Paladins, replacing Block on the combat table with avoidance slightly decreases the damage reduction gained from Block overall. Luckily, the more Mastery you replace with avoidance ratings, the less damage reduction you lose from the Block mechanic. At the Unhittable point Warriors will still have slightly more 'spikey' damage income, but not to a point where this is an issue. It will just mean that when counting in overall damage reduction, Warriors will (again, generally speaking) favor Stamina slightly more than Paladins at the same Avoidance & HP levels. But this is a very specific, math-heavy topic which doesn't really fit the current discussion.
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@ klausi
Again: what are your other stats? I suppose you are a Paladin and thats not what I was talking about, because it is a lot easier to get CTC-capped as a Paladin. Hence my "Coming from a heroic mode tanking Warrior". (On another note: that worst-case scenario becomes a lot less "worse" because of a guaranteed 40% block-chance for a Paladin)
If you aren´t a Nigh-Elf, even in BiS tanking gear you won´t be able to switch more than one mastery-/avoidance-trinket (+ maybe two or three gems) and that will give about 10.000-12.000 additional health for about 4% block or 2,x% pure avoidance. Even Warriors that have an average iLevel of 388 have mastery-gems (three green ones for the meta-gem, of course), because they´d lose CTC if they didn´t.
Also, as you said, Ragnaros heroic is a bad example. My healers don´t have to move and if they do (seeds in P2, moving to a new frost-blaze in P4 etc.), I pop a CD (or they do or whatever). For example, the average Magma-Trap hits me for 54.000 damage and not for 90k, because I do use CDs/trinkets when they are triggered. We only have had ~50-60 tries on him and I never died because of normal tank damage. And its been the same for every boss. If you need a lot of healing, your healers are able to stand still (Baleroc, for example.), on other bosses, I survive quite long without healing anyway.
tl;dr: I don´t say its wrong to go for more stamina. I just don´t see the benefits and it is a non-issue for Warriors anyway (probably until 4.3). No one tells their DPS to get more stamina in order to survive some scenarios neither.


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Zend_Filter_Compress is an filter extension for Zend_File_Transfer and allows to compress and decompress files.
Zend Framework: Zend_Filter_Compress Component Proposal
Proposed Component Name
Developer Notes
Thomas Weidner
Zend Liaison
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
1.0 - 16 January 2009: Initial Draft (wiki revision: 11)
Table of Contents
1. Overview
2. References
3. Component Requirements, Constraints, and Acceptance Criteria
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Zend_Filter_Compress is an filter extension for Zend_File_Transfer and allows to compress and decompress files.
Zend_Filter_Compress is an filter extension for Zend_File_Transfer and allows to compress and decompress files.
4. Dependencies on Other Framework Components
- Zend_Exception
- Zend_Filter
5. Theory of Operation
The Zend_Filter_Compress extension allows to compress and decompress files by using the filter interface. With this component Zend_File_Transfer and also Zend_Form_Element_File are able to allow compression/decompression of files at upload and download progress.The component is instantiated with a mind-link that ...
It is built upon adapters and can easily be extended. Each adapter supports one PHP extension or compression format.
All known php extensions for compression formats will be supported.
6. Milestones / Tasks
- Milestone 1: [DONE] Proposal finished
- Milestone 2: [DONE] Proposal accepted
- Milestone 3: [DONE] Integration
- Milestone 4: [DONE] Unittests
- Milestone 5: [DONE] Documentation
- Milestone 6: [DONE] Move to core
7. Class Index
- Zend_Filter_Compress
- Zend_Filter_Compress_Interface
- Zend_Filter_Compress_Bzip2
- Zend_Filter_Compress_Lzf
- Zend_Filter_Compress_Rar
- Zend_Filter_Compress_Zip
- Zend_Filter_Compress_Zlib
- Zend_Filter_Decompress
8. Use Cases
Manual compression
Manual decompression
Compression and store it under a new filename
Using Zend_File_Transfer with compression
Using Zend_Form_Element_File with compression
9. Class Skeletons
Jan 16, 2009

Looks good.

Jan 16, 2009

Is there that much value in having Compress have compress() and decompress(), and having an interface? Seems like it would be easier to just put the implementation into Zend_Filter_Compress_Zlib::filter() and Zend_Filter_Decompress_Zlib::filter(), for example.

Jan 16, 2009

First: Configurability / Usability / Simplicity

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new Zend_Compress(array('format' => 'Rar', 'chunk' => '1MB'));

is better than

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new Zend_Compress_Rar(array('chunk' => '1MB'));

as you could change the used adapter within your configuration. When you make a failure in your config, the second would throw a "class xxxx unknown" where the first would return "compression extension xxx unknown".

Second: Code reduction

As Compress and Decompression are mostly using the same functionality (only one line difference) it would not be good to duplicate the code. Otherwise the first would be dependent on the second.

Useless in my eyes. <ac:emoticon ac:name="smile" />

Note that these classes are adapters and there is an abstract class/interface.

And by using a generic entrypoint we make it possible to add own filter adapters in future.

Adapters are used often in ZF. Using adapters makes it also possible to downgrade to a, possibly in future implemented, Zend_Compress component instead of writing a own new filter.

For consistency we would then also have to change the encryption filters and divide them into a "encrypt" and a "decrypt" tree of classes when we also divide the compress filter tree.

I would like to have a reduced amount of classes/files when possible, as in this case.

Third: Automatism

Using a base class Zend_Filter_Decompress makes it possible to add a way to detect which compression is used and call the proper adapter for decompression.

Using fixed classes would mean that there is no way for detection and you only get an exception and have to try all adapters once until one can act without failure.

Jan 21, 2009

It would be nice if this component can create folders in archives , adding more files , now it have very limited functionality (look http://pl.php.net/zip )

Jan 21, 2009

This is not a component, it's an additional filter to add support to the existing Zend_File_Transfer component.

What each adapter will support is not defined within this proposal because it depends on the used extension. Some of them do not provide multiple archives, nor the creation of folders within archives.

Therefor the creation of folders in archives will not be supported at first hand.

As written it accepts an input which will be compressed as is.

When the input you provide does not conform the needed structure the resulting compressed file will also not conform it.

When you need this sort of feature, the manual change of archiv files by adding folders into existing archives, or change existing archives by adding files, you should wait until Zend_Compress or similar is available, or you can propose this yourself.

Btw:

Why do you think that it's functionallity is limited ?

Which sort of options will be supported is not described because, as already noted, this differs from adapter to adapter. And for me it's useless to work this all out as long as the whole proposal is not accepted <ac:emoticon ac:name="wink" />

Mar 27, 2009
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This proposal is accepted for development in the standard incubator. While we would like to see a Zend_Compress/Decompress top-level component, our ideas and goals for such a component are beyond the scope of this particular proposal at this time.

We do have the following criteria to add to this proposal, however:

Must allow compression/decompression of strings as well as files. Compression and decompression is not limited to files, and the filter should not impose such a limitation (unless the selected adapter does).

Must refactor to use Zend_Compress once that component has been developed

Sep 21, 2009

The Adapters approach is very good. I agree that this feature should be defined within a component rather than a filter.

Is there good reasons to define the Zend_Filter_Compress_Interface? Maybe the component can live without it...

Some points I would observe:

Verify if the PHP contains the properly extension ('zip' for example) on component construction;

Provide methods to extract a whole compressed file as well as specific files - defining a extract(array $files = null) method;

Provide methods to add new files to a compressed file - before compress it.

Sep 21, 2009

This component is already within ZF Core. The points you want to observe are already available.

Why don't you simply look at the existing component, work with it, read the manual for it, and fill an feature request to Jira when something is missing in your opinion.

Sep 22, 2009

Sorry, I did not payed attention to the milestone area. I will take a look at component and manual and see if I can contribute if something.

Thanks for the reply


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"We still don't have the speed in the car, but it's been a useful learning weekend for the whole team, we got some useful points on the board, and we head to the next race with a clearer idea of just what we can do."
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Daniel Ricciardo: "I am really pleased to score my first points of the season and to confirm the qualifying performance. After yesterday afternoon I kept calm, knowing the real work would begin today. The last time I qualified this well was sixth in Bahrain last year and then I failed to score, so today, I really wanted to show people what I could do, so it's great for me to have had a great race but it's especially good for the team, who have worked so hard for this. Of course, the early pit stop to change the nose affected our plans and towards the end, Massa's Ferrari was looking bigger and bigger ahead of me! So yes, maybe I could have done even better, but for now I'll settle for this seventh place. From the start of the season, we have had many changes in terms of personnel and it takes a while for that to gel and this weekend, it felt like everything clicked into place, after the first two race weekends were a bit up and down, but now I expect us to continue getting stronger from here on."
Jean-Eric Vergne: "I think Mark could not have got through from where he tried and I'm not even sure if he was trying to pass me. Certainly I didn't even know he was there. Unfortunately, the impact put me into a spin and the incident damaged my floor. From then I lost a lot of downforce. It was not a good race from then on, having lost a lot of time and having to drive a damaged car. It's not been a good weekend, as I did not have a smooth time of it from the start. However, as I said yesterday, the pace of the car has improved in the break since Malaysia, as could be seen from what Daniel was able to do today. Therefore I am now looking forward to Bahrain with a positive outlook."
Force India:
Paul di Resta: "A good result in the end and a strong recovery after a difficult start to the race. I was battling with Nico [Hulkenberg] on the opening lap, but unfortunately there was some contact with Adrian [Sutil] down at the hairpin, which put me on the grass and set us back three or four places. After that I was stuck in the pack, my tyres were graining, and I couldn't really make much progress. It wasn't until the third stint that I was in some clean air and the pace of the car was very strong. I was pushing all the way and I knew it would be very close after the final stop with Grosjean and Hulkenberg. But the pit crew did a top job; they kept their nerve and we managed to stay ahead of both of them. If everything had gone to plan I'm sure we could have done an even better job, but it's good to pick up more points and to see our race pace right up there once again."
Adrian Sutil: "A very disappointing day for me. Things were going well in the opening laps and then under braking for the final hairpin I got hit from behind as I turned into the corner. I guess Gutierrez missed his braking point and had nowhere to go but into the back of my car. My rear wing was broken and there was no option but to stop. It's always a shame not to finish a race and I had a good chance of scoring more points today. I was on the soft tyre and the strategy looked to be shaping up well."
Nico Hulkenberg: "It was quite a mixed race with mixed emotions. It was obviously very nice to be leading again, and to be at the front battling with the top teams. I had a reasonable start and some nice battles in the first couple of laps. I was able to gain some positions, but, somehow, towards the end of the race, we were losing or lacking a little bit of pace. Once you are in the lead or second you understandably hope for more. Nevertheless, it might not have been the true picture, as we were racing out of sequence with other people who were starting on soft tyres. But anyway, it was quite a good race. I don't think the two issues I had in pit lane made a difference between winning or losing."
Esteban Gutierrez: "First of all, I had a good start, and a good first lap. At that point in the race when the accident happened, we had a reasonable speed and were able to keep the pace in order to stay with the group in front. Right before going into the long straight I had Checo (Perez) fighting behind me, and I approached the corner too fast. I was braking at the same place where I usually brake, however, didn't anticipate the loss of downforce and the amount of speed I had. I tried my best to stop, but didn't succeed. It was definitely my fault, and I apologise to Adrian (Sutil) and to his team. It's not a good feeling to finish a race like this, but we have something to encourage us to keep going and to keep pushing. We had a good pace, and let's keep moving forward."
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Haiti Needs Purpose, Not Pity
With the anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti upon us, I've seen a fair amount of predictable media coverage that recounts the devastating events of January 12, 2010, and an equal amount of coverage that focuses on the continuing plight of the Haitian people one year later.
I'm pretty ambivalent about the media coverage. It's not that I don't think the situation in Haiti is worth remembering – I remember it all the time. I was there 2 weeks after the earthquake struck last January and the sights and smells and sounds of the scared and the mourning, the sick and the dead, the endless, massive piles of rubble – those are things that stick in my mind. I do remember. My wish is that there could be a greater purpose to all the "anniversary" coverage of Haiti's demise … that we could realize more than just remembrance and renewed sympathy, do more than shake our heads sadly and turn the page, or change the channel.
Sympathy has its place – compassion can be an incredibly powerful driving force. But compassion in this case hasn't proven effective. For all the good that's been done over the past year – longer, even, since we're talking about a country that was plagued by economic and environmental hardships long before last year's earthquake — for all the support that's come in to Haiti in the way of supplies and volunteers and money, it's not enough. Much of the aid, it's been reported, isn't even getting where it needs to be. And even if every tent, every dollar, every box of food to date had been successfully directed and applied – relying on the good will and offerings of the rest of the world simply isn't sustainable.
No, Haiti doesn't need another telethon or more donations. The best philanthropy efforts in the world haven't and won't solve for the more than 3,000 deaths to date due to cholera, or a more than 80% unemployment rate, or the fact that 1 million+ Haitians are living in makeshift shelters and unsafe, unsanitary tent cities. As Nicholas Kristof aptly pointed out in his New York Times op-ed last week, Haiti's people don't need food and clothing, they need to be able to care for themselves and support their families. They don't need a handout, they need a ladder to climb.
There are pockets of progress to report on this front … Kristof cites Fonkoze, an organization which provides rural Haitians with economic support in the form of loans, education and training. And Konbit, a program established by a team of MIT students, matches unemployed Haitians who might not otherwise have access to information about prospective job opportunities by way of an automated phone system. Positive, meaningful programs like these do exist and are making a difference in Haiti … but a handful of organizations aren't going to raise the country out of the mud and make it whole again. It's progress, but it's still philanthropic progress. I do truly and deeply appreciate philanthropy – but we can't expect humanitarian giving to replace a sound and sustainable business model – which is what Haiti needs most of all.
Think about it: what if Haiti could present a compelling ROI to potential "investors" and demonstrate a meaningful return for their contribution there? It would be a stretch — we're talking about a country with a crippled infrastructure, corrupt government, widespread disease … and that's just the headline. Think about the challenges of doing business in Haiti when everything from their sanitation system to their roadways to their power supply is unreliable or in some places, nonexistent. But changing the way we think about Haiti – regarding it not as the focus of philanthropy but as the source of potential opportunity – is the most compelling and promising way I can see to break the vicious cycle that's got the country in dismal paralysis. Haiti needs the resources and opportunities businesses could bring to bear in order to start solving for its widespread instability … but that instability is precisely what's keeping many businesses from going there.
Note that I said "many businesses," and not "all." There are many brands that have had manufacturing operations in Haiti for years, successfully … although like the nonprofit sector, it's going to take more than the current roster to create any sort of discernible impact. And starting this year, there will be one more name on the roster: we're in the process of establishing a Timberland manufacturing facility there. The factory is being built in a trade zone located in Oanaminthe, a town that sits on the eastern border of Haiti adjacent to the Dominican Republic. Oanaminthe is about 200 miles from Port au Prince, where the earthquake struck last January — but like Port au Prince, and most every other region of the country, it is an area of critical, persistent need. The unemployment rate there mirrors the rest of the country, the living conditions are dismal and the local community is desperate for a ladder to climb. With any luck, our factory will be open and operating by early summer … and while we're starting small – 30 or 40 jobs to start – we're hoping to grow to a point where we'll need a workforce of 300 – 400 employees in the next few years.
Importantly, opening a factory in Haiti has some clear advantages for Timberland. It will help us build our manufacturing capacity in a region that's closer to our major markets; the abundant, motivated workforce is pretty attractive, too. If the goal is to expand our manufacturing capacity in a manner and a location that makes economic and logistical sense, Haiti looks pretty good.
And as a company that's committed to creating positive social and environmental impact at the same time we're earning a buck, Haiti makes sense, too. For nearly 2 years now, we've had a program in Haiti called Yele Vert which is all about reforestation and sustainable agriculture. A little over a year ago we broke ground on the first Yele Vert nursery, with a vision of training local farmers to grow and cultivate trees, which would be sold (an economic boost for farmers and their community) or used to reforest the local hillsides. While the earthquake took us (along with much of the rest of the world) temporarily off-track, it never took us off course. A year later there are 6 Yele Vert community nurseries up and running at full capacity, with nearly 300,000 nursery-grown trees already planted by local farmers, and more than 100,000 slated to be planted in the next few months.
Since we're already making social and environmental investments in Haiti, it makes sense – and is in our own best interest, if we want to see the Yele Vert vision become a blossoming reality – to invest our business there, too. And with the establishment of a Timberland factory in Haiti, we're completing the equation and living up to our own business model, which prescribes that commerce and justice should coexist and be mutually supportive. I believe in our model of commerce and justice completely … and I'm as anxious as anyone to see it succeed in a country that is sorely lacking both.
Haiti probably doesn't present as many compelling opportunities for other businesses as it does for Timberland, and I get that. It's a unique combination of right-place-right-time factors that have convinced us to make the leap and give it a try. But the mentality that brought us to this point – regarding Haiti not as a repository for charitable giving and donations, but as a country that might in fact have something to offer us in the way of bottom-line business benefit – that's the kind of shift in thinking I believe could be more valuable than check-writing and more profitable than a fundraiser.
Is going into business in Haiti a smart business decision? That remains to be seen. It certainly isn't without substantial risks … but life, and business, is full of risks. I for one choose not to dwell on "what if" and focus instead on what might be … more trees, more jobs, more stability for Haiti; a stronger, healthier relationship between an historically downtrodden country and the businesses and organizations that engage with it.
Crazy CEO fantasy? Could be. But as long as the fantasy is better than realty, I'll be working toward it.
Help Us Plant an Additional 1 Million Trees in Haiti
Are you excited about planting trees? We certainly are. So much so that in addition to the real trees we're planting around the world, we've launched a new Timberland Earthkeepers Virtual Forest application on Facebook. By creating their own individual virtual forests and inviting friends to plant trees in them, members of the Facebook community are helping to get real trees planted in Haiti. So far, as a result of the Facebook community's adoption of the application, which was launched in October, 1,762 real trees will be planted in Haiti
If you haven't checked it out already, go ahead and do so. By either planting trees in already existing virtual forests or by creating your own forest, you can help Timberland plant an additional 1 million real trees in Haiti. It's that simple. The more virtual trees and virtual forests, the more real trees we'll plant in Haiti (up to 1 million) – above and beyond the ones we're already planting there. Create a forest and invite your friends to do the same and then plant trees in each other's forests too. Nature will thank you. Haiti will thank you and Timberland will thank you by planting more trees. And while you're there, check out the videos that chronicle our projects in Haiti and share them with your friends. Then, share your ideas with other virtual tree planters from all around the world on the CONVERSATION tab.
We're also working on some updates to the Virtual Forest, so stay tuned for those changes at the beginning of December.
And if you like the app, please nominate us for Most Creative Social Good Campaign for the Mashable Awards. Helping to spread the word about the Virtual Forest throughout the social media community equals more application users, which leads to more virtual trees, which means more real trees planted in Haiti. Let's get to 1 million!


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Free sampling in 10kg quantities is not likely to happen; 1kg is the industry standard. Expect to pay for larger samples.
To the best of my knowledge there is no such thing as "raw - no compromise" that is also Fairtrade certified. To the best of my knowledge, there is also no such thing as "fair trade quality" standard in cacao. One of the tragedies of the social certifications (Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance, et al) is that they don't care a whit about product quality when it comes to cocoa.
Unfermented is easy - just get some Sanchez from the DR; you can get some good beans this way. Even places like the Hacienda Elvesia, who sells beans to Felchlin for their Cru Hacienda, will just dry some beans without fermenting beforehand when the prices being offered don't pay for the cost of the extra labor.
However, one of "raw" cocoa's little secrets that few people want to talk about is that the temperatures on the drying table (or pad or however it's being dried) can easily exceed 125F and often reach 140F and higher. So, the temperature of fermentation is not the only issue to consider when thinking about raw.
I don't know if the folks from Big Tree Farms in Bali are selling their beans (I do know they sell semi-finished product), but they are the only people I know of who are looking at the entire post-harvest production process and trying to do something that can legitimately be called "raw."
I currently have Sanchez and Ecuador beans that are lightly fermented and sun dried. However, as Clay stated, they can get above the 140 in some cases. If you are interested, let me know.
Selamat Choco-Friends!
Greetings from Bali! Terima Kasih (gratitude) Clay for the props....Big Tree Farms is indeed working on creating not only a truly RAW supply chain for cacao and cacao products, but we're very intent at doing this within the framework of Social Development and with a special emphasis on food safety.
As Clay points out below, unfermented beans are an easy one; Heck, Indonesia is the world's largest producer of unfermented beans in the world! But i wouldn't want to be munching away on these little seeds. Typically, unfermented cacao is used for grinders to extract butter and grind powder while fermented beans are sold for grinding into paste(liqour) and production of chocolate. Of course nothing ever is black and white so understand that my statements are generalizations.
Cacao for some reason (and perhaps Clay and others can weigh in on this) tends to be highly susceptible (more so in my experience) to yeasts, molds and bacteria growth than most other tropical seeds. At Big Tree Farms we feel that this issue is the clearest and most present danger to the future of a safe and successful Raw Cacao/Chocolate trade. To this end we have been working on the entire process from pod to pack-out to identify the risk points and create solutions that work without damaging the quality of the cacao.
If you are interested in learning more about our programs please dont hesitate to contact us!
Dear Barbara,
Are your beans/nibs certified organic by chance?
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Cities around the world planned festivities to welcome in 2014, with fireworks in several cities, flavored confetti in London and a famous crystal ball in New York being a few of the highlights. Happy New Year!
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