How shadow resistance is computed

Mother Shahraz's Fatal Attraction is the fight this audit exists for. The number you need is buffed resistance at the pull; the number you control the week before is gear resistance. The table shows both and every source of each.

Gear SR#

For every equipped item at the pull:

1. Fixed resistance on the item — the shadow resistance in its stats. Read from the offline game data (the same item database wowsims uses), not from Warcraft Logs, which only names the item.
2. Green suffix. A green "of Shadow Protection" or "of Shadow Resistance" piece carries its resistance in the suffix, not the base item. The suffix values are listed per suffix id (e.g. +30 with +46 Stamina, +23 with +35 Stamina). An unlisted suffix is estimated from its slot and item level by interpolating between the same slot's known greens; the table says Estimated green suffix value: … when that happened, so a surprising number can be checked.
3. Enchants, kits and the glyph, by enchant effect id: Glyph of Shadow Warding (+20, head, Aldor or Scryer), Shadow Armor Kit (+8 each on chest, legs, hands, feet), Shadow Guard (+10, head or legs), Greater Shadow Resistance on the cloak (+15) or Lesser (+10), Inscription of Endurance (+7 all resistance, shoulder), and the small resist-all cloak and shield enchants (+1, +5).
4. Gems that give resistance to all schools.
5. Key items: Medallion of Karabor is credited its +40.

Gear SR is the sum. The Items, Greens, Enchants and Gems columns break it down so a low total can be traced to the slot.

Buffed SR#

Gear SR plus four more things:

• Buffs at the pull, from the aura snapshot Warcraft Logs records when the boss is engaged. Buffs are grouped, and inside a group only the largest counts:
  • Protection — Prayer of Shadow Protection or Shadow Protection (+70 at max rank; +60, +45, +30 below), Paladin Shadow Resistance Aura (+70 max rank), Gift or Mark of the Wild (+25). One group: a priest's Prayer and a druid's Gift do not add.
  • Flask — Flask of Chromatic Wonder (+35) or Chromatic Resistance (+25).
  • Food — Broiled Bloodfin (+8).
  • Gift of Arthas (+10).
  • Armor — Mage Armor or Demon Armor (+18 at max rank). Fel Armor gives nothing and is shown so the choice is visible. The column reads "n/a" for classes without an armor spell.
• Racial: Draenei and Undead +10. The log does not carry race; it comes from a racial ability seen in the log, from the guild roster, or from Blizzard's character data.
• Talent: a Mage's Magic Absorption is +2 all resistance per point, up to 5. Talent ranks are not in the log either; they come from the roster.
• Manual bonus: a per-player SR adjustment on the roster for anything the engine cannot see.

A buff cast before logging began and never refreshed is invisible to Warcraft Logs; if the buffed number looks low for a player who had Prayer, that is why. Refreshing buffs after the log starts fixes it for next time.

The targets#

Buffed ≥ 244 and gear ≥ 160 by default. 244 is the community consensus for surviving Fatal Attraction ticks with healers keeping up; 160 gear is what leaves the rest to buffs that are reliably available (Prayer +70, flask +35 or Gift +25 and food +8 …). A guild can set both under its page, and a link can override them with ?buffed= and ?gear=. Tanks are listed but never coloured: a tank's gear is not expected to carry resistance.

Where the roster comes in#

Races, talent ranks and manual bonuses live on the guild roster (/guilds/<slug>/roster). An audit reads the roster of the guild named on the report, or your own guild when you are signed in; without either, a seed of known races is used. The ? cells for race, talent and Engineer can be set in place by any member of the guild, and Add to roster on an audit page adds a report's missing players in one click.

When a number is wrong#

Two honest reasons: an unknown item (the offline data does not have it yet — see Unknown items), or an estimated green. Both are named in the player's notes. If neither explains it, the flag icon beside the name sends the row for a look.