Archon Recap #1 - Testing Waters
Added 2024-02-06 17:23:35 +0000 UTCHey all! As mentioned in the last post, we're trying something new for 2024. We'll provide more frequent updates on what we've been working on. These will likely happen roughly twice a month to line up with our 2-week sprint cycles.
We'd also love to hear more from you all. So, I'm starting this post off with a question. I would love to hear your thoughts and the reasons behind the answers too!
❓ Question of the Day:
If you could add one feature to one of our sites, what would it be? Let us know in the comments below!
Updates
This sprint we're focusing on three things. First, support the upcoming SoD phase. Second, continue maintaining our other sites. Third, making significant progress in improving the Archon tools.
Below are a few highlights of the previously completed work!
Navigation Upgrade
You might've noticed a little update in site navigation too. We now let you more easily navigate between the sites from the header.
Season of Discovery Meta Builds
Season of Discovery Phase 2 is starting this upcoming Thursday. We have partitioned BFD for all regions today (At 3 PM UTC) with the patch release. Hope you enjoyed BFD, and good luck in Gnomeregan!
We also launched a preview of the Archon Meta Builds and Tier Lists for Season of Discovery. You can browse through the BFD data now before it starts populating with Gnomeregan data!
Feedback about Archon is always super welcome by emailing us at feedback@archon.gg!
Archon BiS Indicator
We have further improved our Meta Builds by adding a BiS indicator to gear from Wowhead's guides.
Getting feedback and suggestions from the Wowhead team has been invaluable in improving Archon, and we're super excited to work more closely with them to improve the context behind the data. Shout out to them!
Thank You
We just wanted to take a moment to express our genuine gratitude to each and every one of you who has supported us. Over the past 10+ years we've grown from a one man project to a business supporting over 10 full time employees. You're part of letting us do what we love, and we truly appreciate it. ❤️
With sincere thanks,
Vel & the Archon Team
Comments
hey, thanks for the update + happy to support here! by the way, if you guys could ever use any help with using the Rust language (one of my fortés) for speeding up some of the (I'm sure enormous amounts of) data crunching, logs ingestion etc that you're doing, I'd love to help! cheers + keep up the good work! (EDIT: oh yeah, like the warcraftlogs client, I think could be 10x as fast, could be reworked to always run in the background and auto-upload or at least parse + prepare for upload, and then with a few clicks or even some auto-upload rules I could decide that "of course upload all of my mythic raiding, discard any M+ keys but 20+, and discard everything else and auto-cleanup so I don't waste disk space" or something! that would be super cool! Rust + Tauri would be a ridiculously good combination for that kind of work!)
Denis Andrejew
2024-03-11 15:00:53 +0000 UTCI think it is definitely hard to separate a person doing something worthless from a person doing something priceless. :) On the other hand, we already have a lot of custom measures for a lot of boss fights. We exclude damage done to someone, limit the damage took into account, parse person with buff in a way so he can compare himself still with others. So, if we have such customisations, is it possible to go forward and highlight valuable players based on they role playing, not just flat metric of dps, hps, dtps...
Dmitry Yurchenko
2024-02-07 15:29:39 +0000 UTCJust thank you for keeping the product growing. :) I would like to note that recently can't rely on the metrics about my parse, because I have to fill the gaps in team's play efficiency. I am shadow priest, and mana reg requests, hymn for healing, using disperse to save the raid - all of these things don't improve the parse. Is it possible to somehow provide a metrics about how much the player wasn't doing his primary goal? In my case: % of activity not related to damage dealing, but helping raid survive? or something, somehow make a statement that this player is 5% worse in DPS because he was doing something more useful and saved the win. Have no idea how to measure this...
Dmitry Yurchenko
2024-02-07 15:25:58 +0000 UTCI would very much like to see the boss hp and % in the dmg graph. Thank you for the hard work and dedication!
Мартин Вучев
2024-02-07 07:13:03 +0000 UTCThanks for all your great work. My feature request would be for archon wow retail : add a dropdown option to let the user pick what percentile dps (or hps) results are shown (in both tier lists and guides). Currently it shows 95th percentile (I believe), but sometimes I'd prefer to see the 75th or 50th percentile numbers.
Ryan Cook
2024-02-06 19:05:40 +0000 UTCThis is an area we really want to do more in 👀 Lorrgs does a great job at this for cooldowns, could be really interesting to expand on that :)
Kihra
2024-02-06 18:44:42 +0000 UTCI'm curious if you can use the logs to generate a rough opener/rotation from boss fights, or even for AoE in M+ to show on Archon. I wonder if enough players press the same buttons in the same order to have something like that be accurate.
Aisllin
2024-02-06 18:38:10 +0000 UTC
