GamParse is a powerful and feature-rich log file parser for EverQuest used by many of the top raiding guilds, as well as many individuals who want to improve their performance. GamParse will allow you to track many aspects of your playstyle, and that of those in your fellow players. The interface is split into many sections detailed below, followed by details of the calcuations and actions handled behind the scenes: The Fight Nav: This is a quick selection list of all the fights you have parsed in the current session Selecting a single fight here will display all its details in all the tabs You can use the shift key or the control key then combine them using Combine A default name is created when you are combining fights, which you can customise The Fight Nav is always available, so you can quickly change between fights Fight List tab: This is a more detailed version of the Fight Nav To select a fight here, you will need to double click Like the Fight Nav, you can select multiple lines with shift and control With multiple lines you can use the Combine Fights button With multiple lines you can also export them as a list of fights You can re-order the list by clicking on the headings and that ordering will continue to apply to new fights as they appear Overview tab: This is the main screen to view the DPS of yourself, your group or your raid The top panel will show you all the high level details for each individual as well as for the total The bottom panel will show you the pet information for the pet class selected using the drop down list You can view the list with pets all showing separately, or with pets combined with owners, so show the player's full contribution including their pets With the two drop down lists, you can link a pet to their owner manually Data can be placed on the clipboard for pasting into EQ in two ways: Firstly, with the 'Send Summary to EQ' button, which will place a fight summary on the clipboard for you to paste into EQ, using the settings from the Options tab Secondly, with the 'Send Highlighted to EQ' button, which sends only the lines that you had highlighted with shift and control to the clipboard for you to paste into EQ Data can also be placed on the clipboard for pasting to forums in two ways: 'Send HTML to forums' will place the entire fight onto the clipboard in a table format using HTML using the settings from the Options tab. Once on the clipboard you can paste the information into a post on your forums. Note that many forums do not support HTML format, so you may want to use the plain text format in that case 'Send plain tet to forums' will place the entire fight onto the clipboard, but lightly formatted with with BBCode which is available to also all forums, again using settings from the Options tab Lastly, data can be sent to a file which can be hosted for others, or shared 'Export HTML to file' will produce a single HTML file covering the fight in several ways, including the overall DPS, each player's own DPS, the spells and discs used by players, the tanking details and lastly the healing summary. The HTML page will behave like a small application using javascript to allow details be shown and hidden using the buttons on the page 'Export as 1 fight log file' will make a very small version of the log file containing only the active fight, named in a way that allows you to store individual events in their own file. You can choose to strip out all dialogue from the file so if you share the file, others will not be able to see your personal conversations. If you want to work through a fight in a text editor, you can choose the option to open the fight for you, so once it exports, it opens it up in your default text editor Player DPS tab: Select a player or pet to analyse their DPS This screen will show you where their DPS came from, weapons by type, nukes and damage over time You can track damage by normal, critical and crippling hits, seeing total damage, percentage of damage by each type, and percentage of hits by type Track how many swings you made, and of those how many hit, missed, or were defended by your target, and then how many times you flurried and striked through their defenses The minimum, average and maximum hits are tracked by each type Find out how many swings in a second you are achieving, with a count of how many times you reach each number of swings, so how many time you got 4 hits in a second compared to only getting 2 hits Spells and Discs tab: This is where you go when you want to know what spells were cast by each player or NPC, when, and how often This feature requires the leadership AA of 'Spell Awareness' to show spells from other players and NPCs There are three panels, the Overview showing how many casts, fizzles and for each player Select one or more player on the Overview using shift and control and you will see further details in the other two panels The Comparison panel shows you how many times each spell was cast and is great for comparing people of the same class, so you can see whether one approach to casting is more efficient than another The Spells, Discs and Actions over time panel lets you see when each spell was cast, fizzled and interupted, which is very helpful to understand events with spells, like Valik the Cruel and his knockback that can be timed once you look here to find out the timing, and then your guild can time the knockback and avoid it You can export the contents of the Comparison panel for sharing on your guild's forum, make your selecting and then use one of the export buttons. Only a few forums support the HTML table, so you may need to use the BBCode formatted option 'Send to Forum' instead The Spells, Discs and Actions over time panel can also be exported, but due to the style, it needs to be in a table, so their is only the option to export to HTML, so some guilds will be able to use this, but many will not Tanking tab: Track how the tanks are holding up against your targets Select a player or pet from the left panel to see their details on the right The details show the types of damage done by the target, as well as showing how often the tank manages to dodge, parry, block, riposte and absorb the incoming damage From the bottom two panels, select a melee type from the list to see further details for that type, including a distribution of hits You can export alot of information from the tanking tab to share with others, or to analyse further 'Send to EQ' will create a single line summary of the selected tank for pasting into EQ, to share with others 'Export to text' places the details of the 'Hit Counts' table onto the clipboard so you can share the information with others on forums. This was especially created for sharing hit distribution information on The Steel Warrior in  The Mitigation Parse thread so they can work out the benefits and returns of increasing AC Lastly, the button 'Export tanking details' will place a large amount of data on the clipboard that can be pasted into Excel for very detailed analysis of a fight. It is primarily designed to work with a tool being created by 'Yoda' on The Steel Warrior but can also be used directly if you are good at analysis in Excel. The details include all the hits, heals, spells and discs, and special attacks, in the order they occured, so you can track how a tank held up with a defensive ability running, and how that changed when the ability ended Graphs tab:  The quickest way to understand a lot of numbers is to see them in a graph, so to help with that, there are 6 graphs available The graphs can be easily copied to the clipboard, or exported to a file, using the right click menu Total damage, graphed as a horinzontal bar chart, so you can see who did the most damage, and get an idea of how other members of the group or raid stacked up DPS, also graphed as a horizontal bar chart, similar to the total damage chart, showing DPS for the event ranked Damage as a line chart, with a drop down list so you can select the entire raid or group, an individual, and for pet classes, their total damage with pets combined. On the graph you will see the damage for each second, rolling 6 second DPS and an average DPS line Hit distribution, graphed sa a vertical bar chart, letting you select which player, the type of attack, and whether it was a critical, cripping or normal hit On the tanking side, there is a damage line graph showing how much damage the selected player or pet was taking. This graphs shows the damage for each second, rolling 6 second DPS, average DPS and the ammount healed each second Lastly for tanking, the hit distribution allows you to check the spread of hits against the selected player or pet. You can use this to see the effects of increasing your armor class, as the distribution of hits should move towards the lower numbers as your armor class increases Healing tab:  You can only track healing performed by you, or on you, so to get the best results on raid healing, the logging should be performed by the main tank as they will see all the healing being done to them The top left panel shows who you have healed, and for how much The bottom left panel shows who has healed you, and for how much On the right, the panel shows you the timing of your heals landing. You can use this to track times where the heals were absent, or to check that heals were landing consistenly You can share this information with your guild using the 'Send summary to EQ' button which will place the summary of others healing you onto the clipboard so you can paste that information into EverQuest Live Fights tab:  On this tab you can track live fights, updated once per second You will see two fights, the top one being the one with most damage done, the second one with the second most damage done For each fight you can track the total damage and DPS from the group or raid, your own damage and DPS, and then the top 4 other player's damage and DPS On the options page you can select if you want pets to be combined with owners, or be shown on their own For the main fight you can track the tank including total damage, the last 12 seconds of DPS, their DI status, min, avg, max hits, % hit rate and who is the rampage tank. To set the tank to be monitored, you send yourself a tell with with !Tank Player. Send yourself a tell using the square bracket, so "[tell Gamanern !Tank Zerapheus" will let me set Zerapheus as the monitored tank Damage mods tab:  Some opponents in the game are weaker or stronger against certain damage types, this tab will show you which attack types are better and which are worse to use This tab will show for each damage type, how much damage was reported on the criticial hit line, and how much damage was actually dealt to the opponent and report the difference If the opponent has a significant positive number, then they are weak to that weapon type and it is best to use it against this opponent If the opponent has a significant negative number, then they are strong to that weapon type and you should avoid using that weapon type Log Search tab:  Here you can search through a log file for any text you wish The search supports Regular Expressions (Regex) to do some advanced searching, but normal searching works like other programs do You can limit the results which will end the search when that number has been found There is an option to restrict the search to the selected fights only, and for combined fights, that means searching through each of the selected fights A count of the number of times it found your search text is shown You can highlight one or more lines of text, and using the 'Copy selected lines to clipboard' pick up those lines so you can paste the results somewhere else. Bewarned, be careful if you paste into EQ, as a square bracket will try to start a command, so it may not appear as you want This is a handy tool for posting information to your guild's forums, or sites like Allakhazam's, with information like quest dialog Loots tab:  Track all the items looted during the session, or in the full load of a log file All people that loot an item appear in the first panel All items looted appear in the second panel When you select a player, the items they had looted will be shown in the third panel with a count of items Similarly when you select an item, the players that had looted that item will be Options tab:  You don't need to touch anything on the Options tab at all, the default settings will suit most people just fine There are options allowing you to change the mechanics of the program, like how long without damage before closing a fight, attempting to suppress a pull from being part of a fight, or suppressing finishing blow from adding 32k damage to an encounter You can customise output settings, like what information is sent when you get a summary of a complete fight Customise outputs to forums and HTML, choosing what information to show, and where appropriate selecting colours and font sizes Live overlays can also be enabled from here, positioned and set up how you want Live fight overlay:  This requires playing in Windowed Mode Track DPS live with a small table visible while still playing the game See the group or raids total damage and DPS See your own damage and DPS See the top 4 other player's damage and DPS Completed DPS overlay:  This requires playing in Windowed Mode After each fight is completed, if the total HP for the opponent is higher than the value you have stored on the Options tab, the fight will be shown as an overlay so you can see the basic details from the Overview tab without having to leave EQ This overshows total damage, % of total, DPS and scaled DPS for the top 20 players Live tanking overlay:  This requires playing in Windowed Mode Send a tell to yourself with !Tank and a tank name to start tracking that tank Track the total damage done, the DPS over the last 12 seconds See the min, avg and max hits against the tank, as well as the percentage of swings to actually hit Check the status of the tanks divine intervention Find out who is the current rampage tank Linking pets:  Pets can be linked to their owners, so the pet classes can show their true DPS when all their pets are included Pets with obvious names are linked automatically, so Player's warder and Player's pet automatically join back to player Pets with less obvious names can be linked by targetting the pet and doing a "/pet leader" command You can also manually link a pet on the Overview tab Mage pets can also be linked when they do a Pet Symbiosis line spell Accurately tracking fights:  GamParse can track fights for multiple opponents at the same time Opponents are identified by engaging with a player. Players are identified by anyone that speaks in guild, group or raid, joins or leaves your raid or group, with the player list stored Fights are closed by either being in range of the 'slain' message, or by being inactive for a set time, as set on the Options tab You can exclude the initial hits from a fight so the pull time doesn't form part of the entire fight time Finishing blow can be suppressed from adding to a player's DPS to better reflect their actual DPS Ease of use:  To get started you only need to turn on logging in EQ and then select the log file in GamParse and you can start to get information, you just have to set more filters to 'Show' inside EQ itself, so that information is available to parse The information is layed out in logical groupings with most screens giving up the basic information in a clear an concise manner Advanced information is usually only a few clicks further in, and doesn't require much set up Share information with others:  Most information you gain from parsing can be easily shared with others as most pages give you options to send to EQ, send to forums and export as a file Send to EQ buttons will place a summary of the tab you are on to your clipboard so you can paste that information into EQ. You can set the default channel to send the information to, and for single player information it forms the tell for you, sending pet information to the own when linked. You will need to set a key combination in EQ to allow you to paste from the clipboard Send to Forums against places the information on your clipboard, either with no formatting, or with a little BBCode to make the results a little easier to read, or some HTML tables for those forums which still allow it Export to File is for your most detailed outputs, like full fight information in HTML format and splitting the log file into single fights.
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