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Prev | Fast Backward | Chapter 55. How the Planner Uses Statistics | Fast Forward | Next |
The examples shown below use tables in the PostgreSQL regression test database. The outputs shown are taken from version 8.3. The behavior of earlier (or later) versions might vary. Note also that since ANALYZE uses random sampling while producing statistics, the results will change slightly after any new ANALYZE.
Let's start with a very simple query:
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM tenk1; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------- Seq Scan on tenk1 (cost=0.00..458.00 rows=10000 width=244)
How the planner determines the cardinality of tenk1 is covered in Section 14.2, but is repeated here for completeness. The number of pages and rows is looked up in pg_class:
SELECT relpages, reltuples FROM pg_class WHERE relname = 'tenk1'; relpages | reltuples ----------+----------- 358 | 10000
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Let's move on to an example with a range condition in its WHERE clause:
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM tenk1 WHERE unique1 < 1000; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitmap Heap Scan on tenk1 (cost=24.06..394.64 rows=1007 width=244) Recheck Cond: (unique1 < 1000) -> Bitmap Index Scan on tenk1_unique1 (cost=0.00..23.80 rows=1007 width=0) Index Cond: (unique1 < 1000)
The planner examines the WHERE clause
condition and looks up the selectivity function for the operator
< in pg_operator. This is held in the column
oprrest, and the entry in this case
is scalarltsel
. The scalarltsel
function retrieves the histogram
for unique1 from pg_statistics. For manual queries it is more
convenient to look in the simpler pg_stats view:
SELECT histogram_bounds FROM pg_stats WHERE tablename='tenk1' AND attname='unique1'; histogram_bounds ------------------------------------------------------ {0,993,1997,3050,4040,5036,5957,7057,8029,9016,9995}
Next the fraction of the histogram occupied by "< 1000" is worked out. This is the selectivity. The histogram divides the range into equal frequency buckets, so all we have to do is locate the bucket that our value is in and count part of it and all of the ones before. The value 1000 is clearly in the second bucket (993-1997). Assuming a linear distribution of values inside each bucket, we can calculate the selectivity as:
selectivity = (1 + (1000 - bucket[2].min)/(bucket[2].max - bucket[2].min))/num_buckets = (1 + (1000 - 993)/(1997 - 993))/10 = 0.100697
that is, one whole bucket plus a linear fraction of the second, divided by the number of buckets. The estimated number of rows can now be calculated as the product of the selectivity and the cardinality of tenk1:
rows = rel_cardinality * selectivity = 10000 * 0.100697 = 1007 (rounding off)
Next let's consider an example with an equality condition in its WHERE clause:
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM tenk1 WHERE stringu1 = 'CRAAAA'; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------- Seq Scan on tenk1 (cost=0.00..483.00 rows=30 width=244) Filter: (stringu1 = 'CRAAAA'::name)
Again the planner examines the WHERE
clause condition and looks up the selectivity function for
=, which is eqsel
. For equality estimation the histogram is
not useful; instead the list of most common
values (MCVs) is used to
determine the selectivity. Let's have a look at the MCVs, with
some additional columns that will be useful later:
SELECT null_frac, n_distinct, most_common_vals, most_common_freqs FROM pg_stats WHERE tablename='tenk1' AND attname='stringu1'; null_frac | 0 n_distinct | 676 most_common_vals | {EJAAAA,BBAAAA,CRAAAA,FCAAAA,FEAAAA,GSAAAA,JOAAAA,MCAAAA,NAAAAA,WGAAAA} most_common_freqs | {0.00333333,0.003,0.003,0.003,0.003,0.003,0.003,0.003,0.003,0.003}
Since CRAAAA appears in the list of MCVs, the selectivity is merely the corresponding entry in the list of most common frequencies (MCFs):
selectivity = mcf[3] = 0.003
As before, the estimated number of rows is just the product of this with the cardinality of tenk1:
rows = 10000 * 0.003 = 30
Now consider the same query, but with a constant that is not in the MCV list:
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM tenk1 WHERE stringu1 = 'xxx'; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------- Seq Scan on tenk1 (cost=0.00..483.00 rows=15 width=244) Filter: (stringu1 = 'xxx'::name)
This is quite a different problem: how to estimate the selectivity when the value is not in the MCV list. The approach is to use the fact that the value is not in the list, combined with the knowledge of the frequencies for all of the MCVs:
selectivity = (1 - sum(mvf))/(num_distinct - num_mcv) = (1 - (0.00333333 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003))/(676 - 10) = 0.0014559
That is, add up all the frequencies for the MCVs and subtract them from one, then divide by the number of other distinct values. This amounts to assuming that the fraction of the column that is not any of the MCVs is evenly distributed among all the other distinct values. Notice that there are no null values so we don't have to worry about those (otherwise we'd subtract the null fraction from the numerator as well). The estimated number of rows is then calculated as usual:
rows = 10000 * 0.0014559 = 15 (rounding off)
The previous example with unique1 <
1000 was an oversimplification of what scalarltsel
really does; now that we have seen
an example of the use of MCVs, we can fill in some more detail.
The example was correct as far as it went, because since
unique1 is a unique column it has no
MCVs (obviously, no value is any more common than any other
value). For a non-unique column, there will normally be both a
histogram and an MCV list, and the histogram does not include the portion
of the column population represented by the MCVs. We do
things this way because it allows more precise estimation. In
this situation scalarltsel
applies the condition (e.g., "<
1000") to each value of the MCV list, and adds up the
frequencies of the MCVs for which the condition is true. This
gives an exact estimate of the selectivity within the portion of
the table that is MCVs. The histogram is then used in the same
way as above to estimate the selectivity in the portion of the
table that is not MCVs, and then the two numbers are combined to
estimate the overall selectivity. For example, consider
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM tenk1 WHERE stringu1 < 'IAAAAA'; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------ Seq Scan on tenk1 (cost=0.00..483.00 rows=3077 width=244) Filter: (stringu1 < 'IAAAAA'::name)
We already saw the MCV information for stringu1, and here is its histogram:
SELECT histogram_bounds FROM pg_stats WHERE tablename='tenk1' AND attname='stringu1'; histogram_bounds -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- {AAAAAA,CQAAAA,FRAAAA,IBAAAA,KRAAAA,NFAAAA,PSAAAA,SGAAAA,VAAAAA,XLAAAA,ZZAAAA}
Checking the MCV list, we find that the condition stringu1 < 'IAAAAA' is satisfied by the first six entries and not the last four, so the selectivity within the MCV part of the population is
selectivity = sum(relevant mvfs) = 0.00333333 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 = 0.01833333
Summing all the MCFs also tells us that the total fraction of the population represented by MCVs is 0.03033333, and therefore the fraction represented by the histogram is 0.96966667 (again, there are no nulls, else we'd have to exclude them here). We can see that the value IAAAAA falls nearly at the end of the third histogram bucket. Using some rather cheesy assumptions about the frequency of different characters, the planner arrives at the estimate 0.298387 for the portion of the histogram population that is less than IAAAAA. We then combine the estimates for the MCV and non-MCV populations:
selectivity = mcv_selectivity + histogram_selectivity * histogram_fraction = 0.01833333 + 0.298387 * 0.96966667 = 0.307669 rows = 10000 * 0.307669 = 3077 (rounding off)
In this particular example, the correction from the MCV list is fairly small, because the column distribution is actually quite flat (the statistics showing these particular values as being more common than others are mostly due to sampling error). In a more typical case where some values are significantly more common than others, this complicated process gives a useful improvement in accuracy because the selectivity for the most common values is found exactly.
Now let's consider a case with more than one condition in the WHERE clause:
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM tenk1 WHERE unique1 < 1000 AND stringu1 = 'xxx'; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitmap Heap Scan on tenk1 (cost=23.80..396.91 rows=1 width=244) Recheck Cond: (unique1 < 1000) Filter: (stringu1 = 'xxx'::name) -> Bitmap Index Scan on tenk1_unique1 (cost=0.00..23.80 rows=1007 width=0) Index Cond: (unique1 < 1000)
The planner assumes that the two conditions are independent, so that the individual selectivities of the clauses can be multiplied together:
selectivity = selectivity(unique1 < 1000) * selectivity(stringu1 = 'xxx') = 0.100697 * 0.0014559 = 0.0001466 rows = 10000 * 0.0001466 = 1 (rounding off)
Notice that the number of rows estimated to be returned from the bitmap index scan reflects only the condition used with the index; this is important since it affects the cost estimate for the subsequent heap fetches.
Finally we will examine a query that involves a join:
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM tenk1 t1, tenk2 t2 WHERE t1.unique1 < 50 AND t1.unique2 = t2.unique2; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nested Loop (cost=4.64..456.23 rows=50 width=488) -> Bitmap Heap Scan on tenk1 t1 (cost=4.64..142.17 rows=50 width=244) Recheck Cond: (unique1 < 50) -> Bitmap Index Scan on tenk1_unique1 (cost=0.00..4.63 rows=50 width=0) Index Cond: (unique1 < 50) -> Index Scan using tenk2_unique2 on tenk2 t2 (cost=0.00..6.27 rows=1 width=244) Index Cond: (t2.unique2 = t1.unique2)
The restriction on tenk1, unique1 < 50, is evaluated before the nested-loop join. This is handled analogously to the previous range example. This time the value 50 falls into the first bucket of the unique1 histogram:
selectivity = (0 + (50 - bucket[1].min)/(bucket[1].max - bucket[1].min))/num_buckets = (0 + (50 - 0)/(993 - 0))/10 = 0.005035 rows = 10000 * 0.005035 = 50 (rounding off)
The restriction for the join is t2.unique2
= t1.unique2. The operator is just our familiar =, however the selectivity function is obtained
from the oprjoin column of
pg_operator, and is eqjoinsel
. eqjoinsel
looks up the statistical information
for both tenk2 and tenk1:
SELECT tablename, null_frac,n_distinct, most_common_vals FROM pg_stats WHERE tablename IN ('tenk1', 'tenk2') AND attname='unique2'; tablename | null_frac | n_distinct | most_common_vals -----------+-----------+------------+------------------ tenk1 | 0 | -1 | tenk2 | 0 | -1 |
In this case there is no MCV information for unique2 because all the values appear to be unique, so we use an algorithm that relies only on the number of distinct values for both relations together with their null fractions:
selectivity = (1 - null_frac1) * (1 - null_frac2) * min(1/num_distinct1, 1/num_distinct2) = (1 - 0) * (1 - 0) / max(10000, 10000) = 0.0001
This is, subtract the null fraction from one for each of the relations, and divide by the maximum of the numbers of distinct values. The number of rows that the join is likely to emit is calculated as the cardinality of the Cartesian product of the two inputs, multiplied by the selectivity:
rows = (outer_cardinality * inner_cardinality) * selectivity = (50 * 10000) * 0.0001 = 50
Had there been MCV lists for the two columns, eqjoinsel
would have used direct comparison of
the MCV lists to determine the join selectivity within the part
of the column populations represented by the MCVs. The estimate
for the remainder of the populations follows the same approach
shown here.
Notice that we showed inner_cardinality as 10000, that is, the unmodified size of tenk2. It might appear from inspection of the EXPLAIN output that the estimate of join rows comes from 50 * 1, that is, the number of outer rows times the estimated number of rows obtained by each inner indexscan on tenk2. But this is not the case: the join relation size is estimated before any particular join plan has been considered. If everything is working well then the two ways of estimating the join size will produce about the same answer, but due to roundoff error and other factors they sometimes diverge significantly.
For those interested in further details, estimation of the size of a table (before any WHERE clauses) is done in src/backend/optimizer/util/plancat.c. The generic logic for clause selectivities is in src/backend/optimizer/path/clausesel.c. The operator-specific selectivity functions are mostly found in src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c.


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Abnormal Pap Test
Topic Overview
What is an abnormal Pap test?
When your doctor says that your Pap test, or Pap smear, was abnormal, it means that the test found some cells on your cervix that do not look normal.
A Pap test may be done as part of a woman's routine physical exam, because it's the best way to prevent cervical cancer. But having an abnormal test result doesn't mean you have cancer. In fact, the chances that you have cancer are very small.
What causes an abnormal Pap test?
Most of the time, the abnormal cell changes are caused by certain types of human papillomavirus, or HPV. HPV is a sexually transmitted infection.
Usually these cell changes go away on their own. But certain types of HPV have been linked to cervical cancer. That's why regular Pap tests are so important.
Sometimes the changed cells are due to other types of infection, such as those caused by bacteria or yeast. These infections can be treated.
In women who have been through menopause, a Pap test may find cell changes that are just the result of getting older.
What increases your risk for an abnormal Pap test?
Certain sexual behaviors, like having sex without condoms and having more than one sex partner (or having a sex partner who has other partners), can increase your risk for getting HPV. And HPV raises your risk for having an abnormal pap test.
HPV can stay in your body for many years without your knowing it. So even if you now have just one partner and practice safer sex, you could still have an abnormal Pap test if you were exposed to HPV in the past.
Smoking or having an impaired immune system also raises your chances of having cell changes in your cervix.
Do abnormal cell changes cause symptoms?
The cell changes themselves don't cause symptoms. HPV, which causes most abnormal Pap tests, usually doesn't cause symptoms either.
If a different sexually transmitted infection is the cause of your abnormal test, you may have symptoms such as:
- A discharge from the vagina that isn't normal for you, such as a change in the amount, color, odor, or texture.
- Pain, burning, or itching in your pelvic or genital area when you urinate or have sex.
- Sores, lumps, blisters, rashes, or warts on or around your genitals.
What will you need to do if you have an abnormal Pap test?
You may need more tests to find out if you have an infection or to find out how severe the cell changes are. For example, you may need:
- Colposcopy, a test to look at the vagina and cervix through a lighted magnifying tool.
- An HPV test. Like a Pap test, an HPV test is done on a sample of cells taken from the cervix.
- Another Pap test in about 6 to 12 months.
A colposcopy is usually done before any treatment is given. During a colposcopy, the doctor also takes a small sample of tissue from the cervix so that it can be looked at under a microscope. This is called a biopsy.
Treatment, if any, will depend on whether your abnormal cell changes are mild, moderate, or severe. In moderate to severe cases, you may have treatment to destroy or remove the abnormal cells.
Most abnormal Pap tests are caused by HPV infections.
Other types of infection—such as those caused by bacteria, yeast, or protozoa (Trichomonas)—sometimes lead to minor changes on a Pap test called atypical squamous cells.
Natural cell changes that may happen during and after menopause can also cause an abnormal Pap test.
What increases your risk of having an abnormal test result?
Certain sexual behaviors —such as having sex without condoms and having more than one sex partner—increase your risk of getting an HPV infection. And an HPV infection raises your risk for having abnormal test results.
Other things that may also play a role in increasing your risk include:
- Smoking.
- Having an impaired immune system.
- Having been exposed to the drug DES while your mother was pregnant with you, though this is rare.
If you have had one abnormal Pap test result, you're more likely to have another in the future.
Types of Results
Lab specialists label abnormal cells according to how abnormal they are—how different they are from normal cells. Knowing what type of abnormal cells you have helps your doctor decide on treatment.
Minor cell changes
Minor cell changes may disappear without treatment. But sometimes they turn into more serious cell changes. Types of minor cell changes are:
- ASC-US or ASC-H. These are changes for which the cause is unknown. ASC-US changes usually stay the same or return to normal. ASC-H changes are also minor but have a higher likelihood of becoming more serious.
- LSIL. These changes may be more likely to become more severe over time, but even when they do, they usually return to normal.
Moderate to severe cell changes
Moderate to severe cell changes —HSIL and AGC—are more likely to be precancerous and turn into cervical cancer if left untreated.
In some countries, other labeling systems are used. These systems may use the term dysplasia to describe cervical cell changes. Or they may simply describe the changes as mild, moderate, or severe.
Follow-Up Tests
When your Pap test result is abnormal, you always need to follow up with your doctor. Often this just means having regular checkups and Pap tests. But sometimes it means more tests or treatment.
It's very important to complete any further testing that your doctor recommends.
Watchful waiting
Most women won't need special testing or treatment. Instead, they'll follow a schedule of regular Pap tests to watch for cell changes. This is called watchful waiting. It may be recommended when:
- You have a treatable infection in the vagina or cervix.
- You have an HPV infection. Most low-risk types of HPV go away on their own within 6 to 18 months.
- Your cell changes are minor.
It's okay to do nothing but watch and wait, because minor cell changes such as ASC-US or LSIL don't usually become more severe during a short period of watchful waiting.
Watchful waiting may not be a good choice if you don't think you'll be able to follow your doctor's recommendations about having regular Pap tests. Talk with your doctor about your testing choices.
More testing
After an abnormal Pap test, you may need more tests to look for infection or to find out more about your cell changes. These tests include:
- HPV test. This test looks for high-risk types of HPV (human papillomavirus). Knowing whether you have a high-risk type of HPV can help guide your treatment decisions.
- Colposcopy. In this test, your doctor uses a magnifying instrument to look at your vagina and cervix. The doctor takes a small sample of tissue so that it can be examined under a microscope.
- Cone biopsy. A cone biopsy removes a little more tissue than a cervical biopsy. It may also serve as treatment by removing the abnormal cells.
- Tests for other infections,such as other sexually transmitted infections, a yeast infection, or a bacterial infection.
The type of treatment you have will depend on what caused the abnormal test results.
Infection: If your abnormal test results were caused by a vaginal infection or a sexually transmitted infection, you can be treated with medicine.
Menopause: Women near menopause may have abnormal results because of normal body changes during menopause. These minor cell changes may improve with the use of estrogen cream.
Moderate or severe cell changes, such as HSIL. Your treatment will focus on destroying or removing the abnormal tissue. Treatment choices include:
- Cone biopsy.
- Loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP), which uses a thin, low-voltage electrified wire loop to cut out abnormal cervical cells.
- Cryotherapy, which destroys abnormal cervical cells by freezing them.
- Laser therapy, which uses a laser beam to destroy abnormal cervical cells.
For cervical cancer, treatment will focus on destroying or removing the cancer. To learn more, see the topic Cervical Cancer.
A pregnant woman with an abnormal Pap test is monitored closely throughout her pregnancy. Monitoring may include a colposcopy. The goal is to rule out cervical cancer, a rare diagnosis. If cancer is ruled out, treatment for abnormal cell changes is done after delivery.
Other Works Consulted
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2010). Management of abnormal cervical cytology and histology. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 99. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 112(6): 1419–1444.
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2012). Screening for cervical cancer. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 131. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 120(5): 1222–1238.
- Wright TC, et al. (2007). 2006 consensus guidelines for the management of women with abnormal cervical cancer screening tests. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 197(4): 346–355.
Current as of: December 19, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Sarah A. Marshall, MD – Family Medicine & Martin J. Gabica, MD – Family Medicine & Kathleen Romito, MD – Family Medicine & Kevin C. Kiley, MD – Obstetrics and Gynecology
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There is a new epic novel (in e-book form) of intense spiritual magnitude. It is titled, "Satan: Judgment Day for the Dragon." by author Trey Smith and founder of the God in a Nutshell Project.
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Enjoy your book. (smileyface) In case you still aren't sold, here are the opening paragraphs of the first chapter of the "novel."
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Police in India say they've arrested three men in connection with the alleged gang rape of an American woman in northern India earlier this week.
The unidentified suspects, aged 22 and 23, were arrested Thursday near Manali, police officer Vinod Dhawan was quoted by The Associated Press as saying.
As we reported on Tuesday, the woman, whose identity has not been made public, was reportedly attacked when she accepted a lift from a group of men near Manali, a resort town in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh about 335 miles north of the capital, New Delhi.
According to the AP, the woman's complaint alleges that after accepting the ride, she was driven to a secluded spot and raped. Reuters quotes local police as saying the incident occurred Monday night as she was hitchhiking back to her guest house after being unable to find a taxi.
The suspects were being questioned by police and their truck has been impounded, a police statement said.
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Clinging to outdated, out-of-context tradition
In terms of safely clearing an instance, it doesn't matter much who pulls.
So why do I care?
I could twist together all manner of arguments for why people shouldn't pull if they aren't the tank (or acting at the request of the tank).
Is it a bad habit? Maybe. But if we're learning our habits from level 70 random heroics, we're already in trouble. "It's a bad habit" is a form of the classic slippery slope argument, that once someone does something, it is permanent.
Sometimes it makes me uncomfortable when others pull because they are going faster or going when a CD is down. Is this enough reason? Maybe, maybe not. Is my slow pulling making them uncomfortable? Do they have a buff wearing off? Maybe they're in a rush and I'm ruining their run.
I've always been 'right', not because my instance running was at the ideal speed or because there was some divine mandate that made a tank-led pull always inherently better than any other. But I've always had something on my side, a mystical force which made my opinions worth more than others, regardless of their actual merit. I've been a tank and as long as tanks have been in short supply, I've magically been correct. Supply and demand said that my opinions and feelings were more important than those of other players.
The only ethos of "Might Makes Right" has been replaced with "Market Makes Right", in which certain people who by luck are in greater demand relative to supply have become something more than mere humans, something more than individuals offering individual opinions for individual regard.
In the process, the particular whims of these sorts of people have been carried on and enshrined in the collective concept of good behavior, regardless of the actual merit of the behavior, regardless of whether "good behavior" is actually helpful or whether "bad behavior" is actually harmful.
In the past I've espoused a "let them die" strategy. Do two wrongs make a right? If someone has aggro, I get it back. I'm a tank. That's my job. Why should I suddenly break this rule just because someone broke a rule that doesn't matter anyway? I've said that a tank should pull because the tank knows his (or her) limits. Why not give the same trust to a DPS and if they want a mob, they can have it? It's not "let them die", but "let them live", tank as I would and heal as you would and let's get back to the serious matter of killing actual enemies.
"Their actions make me slightly uncomfortable" is not a good justification to go stage a mini-strike and jeopardize the shared goals of the group.
I still think tanks are the natural leaders of the groups, but maybe that doesn't mean they have to be so damn self-important.
25 comments:
- Ironshield said...
So what is the acceptable level of bad behaviour? Doesn't cause a wipe? Am I allowed to let a DPS pull what he likes as long as I can throw out all the stops and recover the mess? Bad pulls can still wipe a group in Hellfire Ramparts. Or Normal Deadmines for that matter.
"Their actions make me slightly uncomfortable" is not a good reason to complain, but "Jeopardizing the shared goals of the group" is?
I sometimes quite enjoy just overcoming bad team-mates to complete the dungeon. But that it is in spite of their behaviour, never because of it.
Bad behaviour is bad behaviour, whether or not your group can deal with it, doesn't mean you get to decide they should. - March 19, 2012 at 6:45 AM
- Bristal said...
For the same reason that the second baseman doesn't run over and throw a pitch, or a running back doesn't get under center and throw the ball, or a player doesn't roll the dice out of turn in any board game.
It's a game and there are rules to playing it well. The tank initiates the pull.
DPS pulling is a form of asshattery plain and simple. The fact that it doesn't affect the outcome is poor game design. - March 19, 2012 at 7:54 AM
- caerphoto said...
The tank does the pulling because the tank usually has a plan for how he's going to position the mobs and such. When a DPS pulls, that plan goes to shit.
- March 19, 2012 at 8:03 AM
- Kring said...
Back in vanilla it wasn't uncommon to have a hunter do all the pulling. If you had a hunter in the group.
(Yes, it didn't make sense because they lost their ability which made them the best pullers between beta and release. Nevertheless there were a lot of hunters who thought it's their god given right to be the one pulling.)
(found the delete button :) - March 19, 2012 at 8:57 AM
- Klepsacovic said...
@Ironshield: There is no acceptable level of "bad behavior", but you really seem to be trying to define bad behavior arbitrarily, without any regard for consequences, making "bad behavior" a pointless concept..
@Bristal: Those are rules. Not old conventions. How is it "poor game design" for a non-problem to be a non-problem?
@Andy: As a tank, I can guarantee that 99% of "plans for positioning" are "have mobs in front of me".
@Kring: I think they did the pulling because they had the range to get there first. :) - March 19, 2012 at 9:41 AM
- flosch said...
@Kring: I'm curious, what ability was that? I started playing after release, so I didn't have the chance to see the beta hunter, but I'm always interested in those morsels of information. All I know is that the hunter was implemented very late, and the patch notes that I could find for that time don't hint at any cool ability being lost that would help during pulling.
- March 19, 2012 at 11:12 AM
- Kring said...
I haven't played beta myself but I thought I've read that hunters had an ability that allowed them to pull only some mobs from a linked group. Unfortunately my google skills failed my to find some proof.
- March 19, 2012 at 11:54 AM
- flosch said...
Hmm... never heard of that. Though wasn't there a way to split pull by having the hunter pull, then somebody else tagging one mob in the group, and the hunter FDing? Didn't the group return minus the tagged one? If it was like that, then that was possible for a long time after release.
The sad thing is, I played a hunter in vanilla, and did a lot of pulling, trapping, etc. But I can't remember how the exact mechanics worked, and whether my mind is playing tricks on me at the moment. - March 19, 2012 at 2:27 PM
- Coreus said...
I enjoy reading about your thought process.
It depends on the context, I suppose, but a lot of the time I feel that a DPS pulling a mob before I do respects me enough to know I'll nab it back off him before he gets splatted. - March 19, 2012 at 4:55 PM
- Leah said...
except its not just the tank that needs to be considered. its also the healer who now has to scramble to keep that dps alive, along with the tank, and the other 2 dps, that that mob can potentially go for, if the puller dies before the mob. its not just one person's peace of mind at stake here. now, of course it also depends on each individual situation and that's why you communicate within the group. but there's a reason why "don't pull for tank" is an established rule. it takes everyone into account, not just the tank. and why should tanks pull as a rule? becasue they supposedly have both abilities and the gear to withstand the most damage without overtaxing the healer and allowing dps to pew pew to their hearts content without having their face eaten.
- March 19, 2012 at 5:01 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
@Leah: If the tank is doing his job, and if he isn't that's his fault, the tank will get the mob. I'm not advocating DPS charging headfirst into three packs of trash, so there should bot be a "puller dies before the mob" problem. You seem to be assuming that whoever pulls will permanently have all the aggro, which is simply not true. The relative mitigation of DPS and tanks are irrelevant when tanks can easily regain aggro.
- March 19, 2012 at 5:07 PM
- Kring said...
I've googled some more and... yeah, I think I made fool out of myself. I can't find any such ability but posts back from 2005 explaining the feign pull you described...
I think Kleps is right, they just had the best range. :) - March 19, 2012 at 5:26 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
I think the hunter pull originates partially from range, partially from hunter's mark being the original marking system, and to a large extent, to traps requiring careful pulling.
- March 19, 2012 at 5:31 PM
- The Renaissance Man said...
The tank pulling is still vital to group safety, it is neither outdated nor irrelevant. If someone pulls without his prior approval, then he has to scramble to stabilize the situation, almost certainly burning his taunt, and possibly spending CDs too. At this point, if someone makes a mistake, accidently pulls another pack, rips aggro, misses an interrupt, the tank no longer has the tools to correct the situation, because he burned them trying to save an aborted pull.
- March 19, 2012 at 8:53 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
Who are these tanks who need to burn non-trivial CDs just to grab a pack?
As for the "without prior approval", isn't that why we have ready checks? Should tanks not pull because the healer might have to scramble to stabilize the situation? So maybe the healer should pull, but then the tank has to scramble, so maybe the tank should pull, but then the healer has to scramble... Or we could check that the group is ready and if the group is ready, people will not need to "scramble to stabilize the situation." - March 20, 2012 at 11:37 AM
- The Renaissance Man said...
Tanks who were tanking Cataclysm heroics at release with an equipped ilevel of 303, like I was three days after the release of Cataclysm. The Hour of Twilight heroics are piss easy jokes. They're not actually dungeons, they're just loot dispensers. Hell, well of eternity actually provides an NPC to tank the boss for the group on Mannorath. Add in a 15% buff and everyone overgearing the instance with DS and Derp mode gear, and it's the current state of PvE content isn't very far off from end of Wrath levels where heroics were being cleared by groups of five DPS.
- March 20, 2012 at 5:32 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
So two years ago and in a totally different relative difficulty level?
- March 20, 2012 at 6:12 PM
- Leah said...
@ Klep. and this is why I no longer tank and almost never heal for people i don't know. its too stressful and all that stress falls on tanks and healers. not all of us are super amazing quick on our feet, awesome sauce players. some of us are average to mediocre. and its a basic common courtesy, I think, to at least consider that possibility, until you know different.
- March 20, 2012 at 11:31 PM
- The Renaissance Man said...
And does the fact that it's easier to get away with make it ok? No, it doesn't, because it still runs the risk of wiping a group, and if the non tanks in the group have a functioning brain, they can eliminate that risk. Simply forcing the tank to blow his taunts on the pull can wipe the group if the pack scatters. Six seconds before another taunt is a long time, and non tanks who are stupid enough to pull when the tank isn't ready won't last that long.
The fact that you quote hammer of the righteous as primary tool for securing aggro on a missed pull shows just how little you actually understand about the mechanics of the spec you're toying around with. - March 21, 2012 at 8:48 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
Are you suggesting that my own experience is wrong? Have I been hallucinating during my dungeon runs? Did I only imagine tanking for all these years? What about hammer of the righteous makes it a bad spell to cite? It has a short cooldown and hits multiple mobs. What strange "what if" scenario have you concocted to invalidate the usefulness of this particular ability?
- March 21, 2012 at 9:14 PM
- flosch said...
There was a subtly different to trapping. In many cases, you wanted to sheep one mob, trap another, but if the hunter pulled, it was hard to predict which mob would run into the trap. So if you wanted to trap a very specific mob, you let someone else pull, for example, the tank. Then you shot your mob a split second later and pulled him out of the group, into your trap. Queue pretrapping, retrapping, feigndeathtrapping, and all the shenanigangs. It's all coming back now. I should write a "history of the vanilla hunter" post...
- March 22, 2012 at 8:24 AM
- flosch said...
Note: don't rewrite half a sentence and leave the other half alone, without checking whether they match afterwards...
- March 22, 2012 at 8:24 AM
- Klepsacovic said...
Sap lands and assuming the rogue does not immediately die, the sheep is cast. With the mobs on the move the hunter grabs one and traps it. Ten minutes later the tank becomes involved by taunting a single mob.
In a two-mob pull, the hunter can use concussive on the non-trap mob so that the other gets to the trap sooner. This allows for feign death in case something goes wrong, since no one else is involved. However I don't recall many pulls where two mobs were though enough to make trapping significantly useful, but still able to be CCd. - March 22, 2012 at 8:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
hammer of R can miss/dodge/parry, espec if your high lev and have no expertise/hit. The last time I quit tanking for good for real and Im never ever coming back (so there) I got kicked from a group after a) hunter pulled without a misdirect. b) av shield sailed gaiely past mobs head. c) next 2 hammers were dodged/missed. Hunter decided not to FD mage decided not to go invis and both were squished. Healer went oom healing them and though I got mobs off him with taunts he died to adds I couldnt get to stick to me (he'd aggro'd erm all healing madly aoeing deeps). I killed pack with every OMG cd used and rest of the party dead, to be greeted by a chorus of "nub" "scrub" and the always good to read "you suck"
Btw this is why I dread MOP pali tanking they are taking holy wrath from me which has saved me on so many pulls. When I wear expertise/hit gear I get kicked for scrubness. When I cant hold aggro cos I miss 3 times in a row I get kicked. Im done.
Ps Surv hunters pulling cos my lock and load procced, mding to tank ftw. - March 24, 2012 at 9:58 PM
- flosch said...
Yep, something like that exactly. Plus setting down the trap 20 seconds before the pull, so it'd be off cooldown if something went wrong. Oh, and you could only set traps out of combat, so you had to feign, set down the new trap, pop the old trap right before it break, to lure the mob into the next one.
Good times. - March 26, 2012 at 2:17 AM
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