Comments on: Back to Basics: Becoming one with the Combat Log

By: Saved Just for You «

Saved Just for You « — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:42:04 +0000

[...] vanity pets. And if you’ve ever been frustrated at a raider who doesn’t know what a combat log is or confused about how to set one up, look no further. The last caught my interest–being [...]

By: The Week #5 | The Lazy Sniper

The Week #5 | The Lazy Sniper — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:30:27 +0000

[...] playing games like Guitar Hero and some online games. Also, go set up your combat logs to the illiterate arrogant bastard [...]

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:07:07 +0000

Hehehe. Teh combat log: telling people how they died since the beginning of WoW.

I’ve never heard of Eavesdrop before, I’ll have to take a look of that. (I kind of like whole sentences though. There’s an option to make the default log shorter, but incomplete sentences drive me nuts.)

By: Windsoar

Windsoar — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:07:52 +0000

This was a great post! I personally use Eavesdrop for my combat log needs (I can get it a bit smaller, and I find it much easier to decipher than whole sentences of text).

That being said, next time I hear “How did I die,” I’m sending that raider here.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:57:59 +0000

Oh that is very cool! I never stopped to think on how to use the combat log outside of a raid context. Thank you for the suggestion!

By: The Renaissance Man

The Renaissance Man — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:39:09 +0000

I use recount and World of Logs for Death Analysis. Where modifying the combat log display truly shines is world pvp. I have a “Horde Hunter” setting which screens out anything except what nearby horde players are doing. So if a horde player gains mana from a blessing, has a buff go up or fall off, pretty much anything, I know their name, and what they’re trying. Quick /tar gives me their location, and then I have the initiative.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:01:43 +0000

Ha!

What do you use for your death logs, by the way? Do you use the Recount option?

By: Matticus

Matticus — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:49:33 +0000

Best. Post. Ever. Maybe people’ll stop bugging me to link my death logs.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:44:12 +0000

Hahahaha!

I mean no insult to anyone’s intelligence! I find the Combat Log to be one of those tools that players forget about but that can be so useful when used right. I also don’t find it intuitive, even though there’s tooltips when you mouse over stuff. The first time I configured it right, it was by accident. When I lost my settings, it took me forever to figure out how to get it the way I liked again. There’s still some things I can’t get quite right, such as even though I have “power gains” unchecked, you can see by the screenshot at the top of the post that it still tells me when I get mana back. (I think I might have to get rid of “other” under “periodic”…hmmmm)

The settings I have will still have all the “fades from”. To get rid of those, unchecking “Auras” under the “Message Types” tab should do the trick. (I don’t know why I bother to keep Auras checked. I don’t use my Log to monitor my buffs. I think I’ll go uncheck that too.)

By: Miss Medicina

Miss Medicina — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:40:35 +0000

Oh my God. Please make more posts like this for those of us who are severely retarded and try to change our UIs by drooling emphatically on our keyboard whilst poking our nose repeatedly against the computer screen.

I have long wanted to fix my combat log so that it’s, oh i don’t know, USEFUL, but I needed step by step visual instructions on how to do it. You are my hero.

Okay, enough worshipping at your feet. With these settings, will I still need to shuffle through the vast amounts of “Power Word: Awesome Fades from Jessabelle” that all seem to follow after my death? I hate how it lists all the different buffs I had that disappear after I die. Seriously, I’m dead. I know. I get it. I just want to know HOW I died without shuffling through 18 pages of faded buffs.