Heroic kills counting as Normal

[Zumzum]

Hello,

You might already be aware of the issue, but looking at the rankings : Mogu'shan Vault Heroic reports are currently counting as Normal mode.

Regards,
Zumzum.

[Joán]

To help with fight detection on Stone Guard HC, one or more of the following debuffs will be picked up by players as soon as the fight starts:

http://www.wowhead.com/spell=116322/
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=116199/
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=116304/
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=116301/

Which then in turn leads to this buff on all players:
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=116541/

These are only ever present on HC pulls.

HC report for further reference:
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-33t9c8ho83o0y9v3/

[Maihem]

Cool, thanks for the info! We'll be working on difficulty detection and ranking validation for the new zones over the weekend and during next week.

[Joán]

Some help for Feng as well:

On HC he gains a stack of Strength of Spirit every time he picks a weapon (which he does at 100%). This buff does not exist on normal mode.

Additionally the phase order (which is only fixed in normal) can be detected by the presence of the tank debuffs:

Lightning:
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=131788

Fire:
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=116942

Arcane:
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=131790

Shield:
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=131792

The presence of the shield phase or any phase other than lightning happening first means it's a HC parse (most HC tactics start with Arcane phase).

[Maihem]

Nice. We'll have a look at whether we can integrate that in the detection!

[Anshlun]

http://www.wowhead.com/spell=117723

For Heroic Gara'jal, after players leave the Spirit World

[seventotheseven]

Heroic attempts marked as normal: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/l9oyl3773yedjnbs/
Heroic Stone Guard Kill(have energized tiles buff) and Heroic Feng attempts marked as normal: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/a26rsemjsmjhm3r2/

[darkwolfdude]

Just had the same issue for Stone Guard Heroic 10m

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/eagrp4sw7u7vn73i/

Original log file: https://rapidshare.com/files/1227557985 ... 204323.zip

[caleb]

Everything listed here only happens on heroic. All of them happen at rather early stages of each fight making them a decent way of recognizing heroic modes.

The Spirit Kings Heroic:
The encounters first boss uses it at the first minute of the fight. spellId 117961 Impervious Shield event SPELL_CAST_START

Elegon:
This ability is applied to players who soak the damage of Total Annihilation: spellId 132222 Destabilizing Energies event SPELL_AURA_APPLIED
If the previous event is not applied to some people after Total Annihilation then this other event occurs: 127341 Catastrophic Anomaly event SPELL_DAMAGE this will most likely wipe the raid

Will of the Emperor:
Unit GUID: 60480 Titan Spark, this unit is only present on heroic, it spawns from every add that is killed throughout the fight.

PS: If you need logs, send me a PM or look at my guilds parses.

PS2: Let me know if there is any way I can help improving heroic detection in the future ( for example I can supply heroic PTR logs, or live logs at early stages of content availability )

[Galvin]

Once the fix is made will all past heroic fights that are currently listed as normal get changed to a heroic listing?