# Improving performance evaluation with ranged percentiles

**URL:** <https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/improving-performance-evaluation-with-ranged-percentiles/2064>\
**Category:** Warcraft Logs\
**Created:** [December 9, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/improving-performance-evaluation-with-ranged-percentiles/2064 "2016-12-09T14:07:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Psy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.combatlogforums.com/psy/32/353_2.png) [@Psy](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/u/Psy)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/improving-performance-evaluation-with-ranged-percentiles/2064/1 "2016-12-09T14:07:41Z")

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I’ve been active on warlock discord for a while, the first time I noticed it was personal but now I started to notice that other people have experienced minor issues with the _problem_ I am about to describe. I believe visual examples are the best, so here we go:

This is the **Ranged tab** for **Guarm Mythic** when exploring myself as a player:

![](https://cdck-file-uploads-canada1.s3.dualstack.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/flex029/uploads/combatlogforums/original/1X/aa72a26cbfe9b764cb4e7bda5a09e365e407d408.png)

Those are the same results when I filter by the appropriate specialization, **Destruction** :

![](https://cdck-file-uploads-canada1.s3.dualstack.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/flex029/uploads/combatlogforums/original/1X/d2915e3ab302a3ab1fccfa6fe242e66e501c923c.png)

There is a noticeable difference to the untrained eye, and those are the eyes of many.

Now, **I do know where the difference comes** from and I know that **Ranged tab** is supposed to look at the class as a whole and rank specs accordingly to their performance. In this Demonology is performing much better which offsets destruction as one of the weakest single target specs.

But **not everyone fully understand how to read this** and also changing specialization is really tedious in the current design of the game - mostly because of artifact development and legendaries. So the ranged tab could be slightly misleading if one doesn’t fully understand how to read. And percentiles have become increasingly a serious thing in the community that people discuss and exchange as information.

**Suggestion:**

I would like if we can clarify this a little and my suggestion is to add a column to the **Ranged tab** that shows the percentile performance for the spec next to the one of the class, it could look something like this:

![](https://cdck-file-uploads-canada1.s3.dualstack.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/flex029/uploads/combatlogforums/original/1X/f802382a5c550b295072ad67dccb63af70953103.png)

_The new column I added is “Spec”._

What do you think?

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**Author:** ![Kihra](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.combatlogforums.com/kihra/32/1116_2.png) [@Kihra](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/u/Kihra)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/improving-performance-evaluation-with-ranged-percentiles/2064/2 "2016-12-09T17:08:59Z")

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That’s a good idea.