That will be a LOT of information being sent by everyone in the group to everyone in the group. With how laggy the servers already are… Oof. This will hurt.
Nerfs, yes.
Breaks, no.
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That it will.
We all told them what will happen if they nerfed the combat log and they kept on crying over a non-issue, now here we are at the beginning of a new wave of complaints about how nothing works properly anymore.
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it isnt sadly. 1.12 you had addons that was way more powerfull. like Battleground targets, unitscan powerauras
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so the addon will be rewritten to run outside of the game and parse the combat log file instead?
Like I said, I doubt it will break any addons, since it’s specifically the in-game combat log range that’s reduced, which should still pick up everything that’s happening to a target within range (like a raid boss), and not text logs.
And if does break all those other addons… well, if nothing else we get to say “I told you so”, I guess…?
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It’s hilarious that these two were posted minutes apart.
Check out the big brain on Brad!
incoming heals for healers, now requires you to be 50 yards close to all other healers. witch on some bosses never happens.
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There is a very good chance that it will break other addons, sure we’ll be able to say we told you so but that wouldn’t solve anything.
Meters really had those problems for the longest time. You couldn’t trust that yours showed what other players were seeing on theirs. It’s not really anything new to WoW and people will survive just like they always did.
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So the huge addon breaking change will be some overhealing…?
True, not exactly a win…
That wouldn’t work because you’d have to manually export that file constantly for it to update when people entered the ‘parse’ range. It’s just… Not realistic imo.
Also doesn’t that break the ToS in regards to how addons work? Or am I getting that wrong?
Yea as a healer this will bother me a lot
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I wouldn’t know, but either way it isn’t really feasible tbh.
who cares if this thing or similar was in vanilla. it was a powerful threat and people should be glad its getting a slight fix.
Already people in my guild’s raid group are reporting that their details values and heal logs are completely different from each other.
They have genuinely just broken addons that run off the combat log, good job Blizzard.
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So, damage meters being unreliable was always like that in Vanilla as well. Due to the range. And that is why you SYNCED them.
There was already a workaround for it back in 2005, and that workaround will be back in the addons in notime.
As for killing threatmeters, perhaps, and I could also say hopefully. It doesnt hurt for people to require some sense of aggro like back in 2005. Raiding is easy enough as it is.
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I still feel there is a problem with talkative Buffs appearing in the combat log, prove me wrong.
[Combat Log example, arriving at Xroads](https ://imgur .com/a/dqS2cJt)
U didnt say that blizz did fool