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EQMac_LogAnalyzer.pl

This is a script I've been working on here and there for the last year or so. It's written in Perl and reads and analyzes your log file. It's reasonable good at summarizing melee combat and tracking spells cast. You should be comfortable using Terminal to use it, since there is no real GUI, and only one forum post for a manual.


How to Install:

1. Download Parser

2. Open Terminal

3. Extract the files from where ever you saved the download, to where ever you want to run it:
Three files will be created:
EQMac_LogAnalyzer.pl -- This is the main program.
EQLogParser.pm -- This handle categorizing each line. Adapted from an EQLive CPAN module.
spell_table.pl -- A big database with information on almost every the spells in the game (Thanks Dwin).


How to Run:

1. Open Terminal

2. Go to the directory where the script is installed:

3. Run the script on the file you want to parse. It will print out information about each fight it's able to identify with who did melee damage and how much. Non-melee damage is included but only for yourself and not others:


If you want to save everything it prints to a file named parser_results.txt run:


Now if you want to limit it to the last day (the script recognizes any of these 1w = 7d, 1d = 24h, 1h = 60m -- dont put a space between the number and units):


There is a filter to summarize only certain fights. For example if you only want to report fights against mobs with Zek in their name from the last half hour:


Or you can summarize your whole session, and not just individual fights:


You could even summarize other players and mobs (or use "-stats all" to get summaries for everyone):


For reference, I get about 0.5MB/sec or 8000 lines/sec performance. If you want it to run in seconds instead of minutes (hours if you have a GB+ log file) you could do something like this to look at only the last 25000 lines:



But I already use a parser:

Now most of this can be done better by Era appropriate Windows/EQLive parsers. However they can't do this:
The program starts but instead of reading all the old lines, it waits for new lines to be added. In this mode you get a realtime fight summary at then end of each fight. Also, it tracks all the spells you cast and reminds you when they are going to fade. If you cast single buffs or short duration debuffs, this can be very helpful.


Todo list:

1.The spell timer currently doesn't handle buff extension AA and focus. The focus items do show up in the log file, but AA would have to provided as an option. I could use some log file snippets with popular focus items to test.

2. It would be nice to estimate spell damage based on emotes, to guess what damage other casters are doing.

3. DOT damage could be estimated based on cast time, fight duration and spell database.

4. Currently there is no real mitigation analysis. A lot of the information is there, but hasn't been extracted and summarized.

5. Crit rates aren't tracked.

6. The combat parser gets confused with charmed mobs fight another mob, then suddenly turn and attack you. The log file doesn't really show which is the pet.

7. Some of the reports it dumps are ugly. I had planned to dump HTML or something that would look nicer. I even thought about writing a GUI on top, but I'm not much of a GUI programmer.


Disclaimer:

This software is freely available to copy and use and redistribute. If you find a bug or make an improvement, I would appreciate if you would post back here or send me a PM so others can benefit.


Let the DPS wars begin!

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Zenum <Dark Conquest>-- 65 Gnome Enchanter

EqChar -- Save your character's profile in a text file.
Zenam's Item List.xls -- (12.1 MB) Pretty much every player usable item on Al'Kabor ranked in a spreadsheet.
EQMac_LogAnalyzer.pl -- (0.31 MB) Script to parse log files for melee DPS plus realtime automatic spell timers! (Forum post)

reserved for future use ~

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Zenum <Dark Conquest>-- 65 Gnome Enchanter

EqChar -- Save your character's profile in a text file.
Zenam's Item List.xls -- (12.1 MB) Pretty much every player usable item on Al'Kabor ranked in a spreadsheet.
EQMac_LogAnalyzer.pl -- (0.31 MB) Script to parse log files for melee DPS plus realtime automatic spell timers! (Forum post)

Thanks Zegnome! Can't wait to play around with this

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Pithy Deathwish, manic mechanic of <Temerity>

Refuse, rubbish, filth, slime, muck and other alt-putrescence:
[ Drat | Dart | Zounds | Slouch | Pouch ]

Thanks Zenum - having a real EQMac parser is going to be great!

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Ryoku Wing, Swift Tail of Temerity

Soft-skinned alt scum:
[ Ravenwing | Syovan | Prudence | Auvry | Sycorax ]

Nice work, and nice to see another Perl hacker around here

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This is cool. Great contribution. Thank you!

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Elder Judah, Harvester of Tares Lichen

V

I got a chance to play with this some today. I really appreciate you doing this and posting it. It helps me on deciding some weapons choices; taking it from theoretical to applied. I could always do it using windows apps but this is just better. I see you have plans eventually for some changes and I'll look forward to seeing the program evolve.

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Daro - 65 Monk ** 4/30/2011
Lots of other characters

Wonder what it does about enchanter pets....

Too bad we can't name the pet after we charm it.

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Sinnder, Enchanter of Destiny
Joshore, Druid of Destiny

Parsing charmed pets should work fine if you have a real tank, and don't let it actually get close enough to hit anyone on charm breaks. But if the logfile only shows one mob against another mob, especially if the names match, who knows what you'll get. It might help parsing if you pulled with a ceramic band to show which mob you are doing non-melee damage to. That will be the target, and any other NPC that fight against the target will be assumed to be charmed pets.

I forgot to mention it before, but if you are running in monitor mode while playing the game, it helps to do '/who' so the script can learn all the player names in your group / raid. It helps the program resolve the target if you are not the first in combat.

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Zenum <Dark Conquest>-- 65 Gnome Enchanter

EqChar -- Save your character's profile in a text file.
Zenam's Item List.xls -- (12.1 MB) Pretty much every player usable item on Al'Kabor ranked in a spreadsheet.
EQMac_LogAnalyzer.pl -- (0.31 MB) Script to parse log files for melee DPS plus realtime automatic spell timers! (Forum post)

I just updated the EQMac_LogAnalyzer program with a few small enhancements. When using -most_recent (or -last) to read only the end of a very large file, it searches backwards from the end instead of forwards from the beginning to find the starting point to parse at. Also I improved the combat stats summary you get from -stats. Also a "-stats players" will summarize all player character results (but not pets for now).

All the details in the first post.

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Zenum <Dark Conquest>-- 65 Gnome Enchanter

EqChar -- Save your character's profile in a text file.
Zenam's Item List.xls -- (12.1 MB) Pretty much every player usable item on Al'Kabor ranked in a spreadsheet.
EQMac_LogAnalyzer.pl -- (0.31 MB) Script to parse log files for melee DPS plus realtime automatic spell timers! (Forum post)

Has anyone tried running this with the new client? I tried running the commands in Terminal Zenum had and I couldn't get it to work. I even tried switching it around to reflect where I thought it was downloaded.

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Works for me:



The new log files have blank lines that cause a harmless error message about timestamp not matching. I uploaded a fix.

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Zenum <Dark Conquest>-- 65 Gnome Enchanter

EqChar -- Save your character's profile in a text file.
Zenam's Item List.xls -- (12.1 MB) Pretty much every player usable item on Al'Kabor ranked in a spreadsheet.
EQMac_LogAnalyzer.pl -- (0.31 MB) Script to parse log files for melee DPS plus realtime automatic spell timers! (Forum post)

I keep getting the following error:



Can anyone help my code-addled brain?

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You should try renaming the file and let the script recreate it.

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Zenum <Dark Conquest>-- 65 Gnome Enchanter

EqChar -- Save your character's profile in a text file.
Zenam's Item List.xls -- (12.1 MB) Pretty much every player usable item on Al'Kabor ranked in a spreadsheet.
EQMac_LogAnalyzer.pl -- (0.31 MB) Script to parse log files for melee DPS plus realtime automatic spell timers! (Forum post)

Now I get:



And in the parser_results.txt:



I need remedial lessons I think!

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