Searching for MC mobs on WWNData

[Dark Matter]

Hi,

I am lucky enough to have started raiding MC recently with a very good group.

However, because of the way that MC raids are run, I lot of the information I should be getting for WWNData I can't due to MasterLooting. This I accept will not change in the foreseeable future.

My question is this though - how can I get some of the mobs I have been involved with killing uploaded?

We have cleared to Golemagg, only Majordomo to go, but none of the MC bosses are still not searchable on the site. Lucifron, Magmadar, Gehennas, Garr, Baron Geddon, Shazzrah, Sulfuron Harbinger and Golemagg cannot be serached for - and I have been in raids that have killed all of them at one time or another.

The hands of some of them can be - but not the mobs themselves.

Now, I accept, that as a priest I am not damaging them, but I have put an SW:P on a couple and Shazzrah I hit with SW:P, Devouring Plague and wanded like mad when we got him to 2%

I haven't actually clicked any of the corpses - as I am not the masterlooter there's no point. Would it help the addon if I did so? If so, I'll tell the raid leader what I am doing.

DM

[cybrey]

The mobs you talk about are stored in the database (http://wwndata.worldofwar.net/mob.php?name=Garr) and in fact have loot tables. I don't know why they're not returning in the main search.. I'll have a nosey around that page when I next get a couple of hours :)

[Dark Matter]

Thank you.

[Annunaki]

Hi,

Well Cybrey and myself investigated this issue, and here are the results of our findings :


The respective mobs are in the DB, some even have loot attached to them.
The respective mobs have no Location information attached to them. This is because they were found in instances and that data isn't processed yet. The LUA Mod is logging it, but the server side of things hasn't been developed yet. Once that is done, you should start seeing in which instance the Mob was found.
There is currently an error in the SQL statement which is generated by the Search page. As it currently only returns Mobs / World Objects for which it also finds Location information. Since Mobs in Instances have no location information they are not returned in the Result set.


There are two things we can do here.

Quick ( and dirty ) approach

First thing is fix the SQL statement, which should be done easily, but IMHO isn't the best approach of things.

A better Alternative

IMHO if you search for a Mob or World Object you want to see your mob listed once ( and not for every zone it was found in ). If you want to know which Zone it was found in you should open up the Mob's detail page for that specific mob. This would also be better if you take performance into account. Currently the search has to scan through some tables in our DB which might get Processor / DB intensive, and that will only get worse as our DB grows.


I will take this up with Rushter and Miguel and share my thoughts with them, once we agree on what approach we will take we can start fixing it :-)

Regards,


Annunaki

[Dark Matter]

Many thanks for your attn to this.