Test server 25-Jan release

The 25-Jan-2008 build of the Test server has a bunch of new combat log messages available to help track accuracy. You can see the patch notes on the official forums. What this means to HeroStats is that it's now much easier to track accuracy of a power, and it's even possible to see the accuracy of an enemy's powers!

The latest unstable build (download it from the unstable web site) takes these new combat log messages into account. You'll see a bunch of new statistics related to accuracy if you're running the unstable build on Test. Here's a brief rundown of what's new:

• Both player and enemy accuracy is tracked. Each section discussed below comes in two flavors, one for player stats and one for enemy stats. For players, everything is tracked by power. For enemies, it's tracked by both enemy type and power (since a Behemoth's version of Fire Sword might be different than the Fire Thorn Caster version of Fire Sword).
  
• [Player/Enemy] Accuracy: This section measures the actual accuracy for each power over the time you've been collecting statistics. It's calculated from actual hits / (actual hits + actual misses).
• [Player/Enemy] Hits and Misses: A detailed breakdown of the number of hits and misses per power.
  
• Hits and Misses are simply counted from the new log messages.
  
• Hits (calculated) is generated by looking for messages where the roll is less than or equal to the percent chance to-hit. That's a debugging tool, mainly - in theory Hits should always equal Hits (calculated) - if it doesn't then something's not right.
  
• Number of Rolls is the count of times you had to make a to-hit roll. You might think this should always be equal to the number of times you attacked, but it's not always the case - sometimes a power is auto-hit, and sometimes the streakbreaker gets involved.
• Streakbreaker Count is the number of times the streakbreaker was used to force a hit. I'm not going to try to describe the streakbreaker here, Arcanaville's Guide to Defense does it better than I would.
  
• [Player/Enemy] To-Hit Chance: The to-hit chance percentage from the new combat log messages.
• Average is exactly what you'd expect, the average of the percentages from all the hits and misses for the power. Note that auto-hit and streakbreaker "hits" aren't counted.
• Total isn't all that useful, it just adds up all the to-hit numbers. It's used for calculating the average.
• [Player/Enemy] To-Hit Rolls: The to-hit rolls from the new combat log messages. This is the same as the to-hit chance above except it's the roll numbers.
  

The old accuracy and hit/miss stats are still in HeroStats for now. Once these new combat log messages are stabilized I'll probably remove that, but for now it's interesting to see how the old and new ways differ. From the little testing I've done so far, they're pretty much the same, which is a good thing.

All this information is accurate as of the 25-Jan-2008 Test build and the 3.9.9.8 version of HeroStats. New Test builds and new HeroStats versions could be a bit different, keep an eye on the change logs for each.