Sartharion completion: hard modes

I continue to hack away on my achievements project. I've got a really good dataset now: 90,000 or so characters who turned level 80 before May 2009. All their achievements, nicely cleaned of spurious data, etc. My first pass with the data was some one off reports (like Naxx/25 and heroic completion). Right now I'm building a simple webapp to generate reports for all achievements live from my MySQL database. That's not going to scale, though, so long term I'm looking to run things on Google AppEngine (much like Zardoz) which will require rethinking the datastore. Interesting work.

But to keep the tedium at bay, here's a quick report of completions for Sartharion/25.

• 69% Heroic: Besting the Black Dragonflight
• 32% Heroic: Twilight Assist
• 18% Heroic: Twilight Duo
• 8% Heroic: The Twilight Zone 

And here's some graphs of when people finish Sartharion for the first time with various numbers of drakes up.

Sorry for the multiple graphs; don't have multiple datasets on a single graph yet. Interesting how no one's doing Sartharion + 3 Drakes since Ulduar came out, no? Also interesting how spiky the harder achievements are, that's a day-of-week thing. If my timezone handling isn't entirely broken then Tuesday and Wednesday are the most popular day to have first gotten Sarth + 3D, Saturday is the least popular. (By contrast, Sunday's the most popular day to first finish Naxxramas).

Comments

[Furiana]

For most people Sarth+3D isn't worth the effort in getting it done once you have the achievement. Sure the mount is nice, but do you want to spend weeks on end farming it for the entire raid ?.

I suspect that once Ulduar level gear+ becomes more widespread there will be an uptick in Sarth+3D kills once the usual /trade suspects can face roll their way through it. But before that most groups still killing Sarth will stick to 1-2D.

[Julia]

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Sincerely,

Julia