BRK’s issue is that he suspects he generates excess focus while having claw and bite active at the same time. And if he does, he could use the points from Beastial Discipline somewhere else.

@Endymione: I don’t know for sure, but most focus changes should be easy to track, the main issue is the complications of an parallel event system in which you can get the events a bit “out of order”.

Yep, it is, but it also depends on *what* you want back! I did a quick test last night and in not many minutes I was recording focus change and timestamps on those changes. Like you guessed, and since pets don’t seem to be affected by the 1.5 seconds GCD, sampling at 1 second intervals would give weird results…

Here’s a quick sample with focus value and time in seconds from first:

65 0,0
50 1,0
25 1,7
73 2,4 < -- Only 0,7 seconds
48 3,4
23 5,1
8 6,0
32 7,4
7 9,1
40 12,0
15 13,0
38 17,1
23 17,4 < -- Only 0,3 seconds
67 21,4
100 26,2

This was a small fight with a same level non-elite mob.

Now, in order to get what BRK wants, it would be a lot more complex! You can tell from the above data that I don’t have “excess” focus as you don’t see it topping 100 during the fight, but if it would, could you tell by how much?

Anyway, I’ll just make a simple perl script to extract that data in a more automated way and then will probably make a quick post explaining how to use, not that it’s that difficult!

http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/5629/

There is also a version for your DPS that you can use with it to compare DPS between both of you.

Thanks for such a great resource. I have read you blog from the beginning and wish you started it when I was having probs with my hunter. Anyway, I rerolled him and can’t wait to put the information presented here to good use.

Also, recount doesnt have that kind of function.

1) Making such an add-on is probably not difficult, especially if no UI is needed, kind of like what I did to gather wild/tamed/hunter data recently.

2) Will have to check the available API/Event functions to see if there’s 1 per second, but probably it would be better to just hook into the focus change event: if the timestamp is also recorded, it will be easy to see how focus is going up/down, although I don’t believe it is possible to see “overfocus” unless it tries to do some intelligent guessing from, say, reading combat log as well… (whenever you crit, you should get a fixed amount of focus depending on GftT TPs used, but it may be a bit hard to do as WoW is heavily event based and some events may come before *or* after other related events! Think of it as what happens when you level up a skill: sometimes you make the item then get the skill-up, others you get the skill-up and *after* you get the “item made” event…

3) I may give it a try maybe tomorrow night as it shouldn’t really take long to do. It most likely won’t record to CSV, but with either a simple perl script or some easy text editor cut/paste should be easy to convert to it…

4) In the meantime, feel free to check my old and simple focus calculator: it’s theoretical but it may be of some use nevertheless… (You can find it on my blog on the “My Own Stuff” section to the left: it’s an excel sheet with nothing but formulas, i.e., no VBScript)