TBC Audit update: Encounter Timelines
Hey again,
A while back I posted TBC Audit here, the tool that grades your WarcraftLogs parses and breaks down what's holding your DPS (or threat) back. The response was genuinely overwhelming (the servers definitely felt it 😅), and a ton of you sent feedback that shaped where it went. Thank you for that. As of this moment we've just crossed 400,000 audits!
Here's the big new thing: Encounter Timelines.
Instead of just a grade and a breakdown, you can now open the Timeline tab on any audit and get a second-by-second replay of your fight: what you cast, when, and just as importantly, what you didn't.
What it shows:
- Every cast laid out on a vertical timeline, following the actual rotation beat you played
- Dead time, where you stopped casting or shooting
- "Ready but held" cooldowns, so you can see when a core ability (Bloodthirst, Crusader Strike, Mind Blast, Stormstrike, Mangle) came off cooldown but you sat on it for a few seconds
- "Burst" rails, so you can see at a glance whether your cooldowns and hardest hits actually landed inside the burst window
- Spec-specific detail: seal-twist payoffs for ret paladins, DoT drops for shadow priests, auto-shot clipping for hunters, Slice and Dice / Expose uptime for rogues, and so on
The idea is the same as the audit itself: point at the concrete things you can change next raid, not what gear you're wearing.
For now I've opened Timelines up to everyone as a public beta while I gather feedback. Timings and highlights are still being calibrated, so they might shift.
Link: https://www.tbc-audit.com/ - then run an audit and hit the Timeline tab.
My ask is the same as last time: I'm not an expert on every single spec, so if something looks off for your class (a cooldown it thinks you held when you couldn't, a metric that's missing, a call that's just wrong) I'd love to hear it.
There's now a Feedback button right in the top bar that sends it straight to me, or just drop it in the comments.
Cheers 🙏