Well as usual the most whiney people on wow forums gets it their way, and the rest gets screwed over. The affect on other addons is pretty huge as well.
Would have been wiser to oh i dunno…nerf hunters range and aimed shot that oneshot ppl. Or the Affliction warlocks who just steamroll others, og give druid a usefull dmg increase across all board.
But nooooo ! lets f"&%¤ up addons instead, because the crybabies are always right.
Why, are these things also not behaving like they did in 2005? ^^ Get some sleep, how can you compare that and this.
non-blizzlike classic experience… what a poor “hotfix”…
warlocks cannot enslave most elites
neutral guards have an aggro range 3 times the size of the original
curse of doom cannot even affect non-players such as pets or even temporary pets such as enslaved demons as whatever the player controls counts as player ?
and now a 50 yard combat log all due to the spy addon… this will affect quite a lot even if not within raids it will affect the game…
fire whatever idiot made the call to tinker with the combat log which is the core of classic… slap him once for good measure.
aside from all this… by the 10th december the use of spy will drop as players will enter battlegrounds which would cause spy to be literally flooding your screen which will make many disable it as its only use it to remember revenge and for world pvp which shrinks by 99% the moment we get battlegrounds…
what a senseless hotfix risking to break the classic experience for no good reason with a solution that was cooked up on the spot…
Honestly? Not really, heck I doubt very many people will notice the difference - but hopefully it will be enough to sathe the salt on the forums where people ascribe the addon magical properties.
Learn to read
That is in fact good news. I do now know how this will affect spy addon but at least blizzard takes some action about this.
If other addons like dbm or damagemeters are affected by that it’s not big deal… If you cannot fight a 13 year old fight without use of that addons then you don’t deserve to beat that fights…For the damage meters addons just watch your own damage/heal i think all those are overrated and they are more for personal use than tools for raiding. In the end we don’t need so many help to beat a 13 year old game that has been nerfed…
Are you all blind??? This does NOT affect raid stuff. It says right there in the blue post.
What do you mean? They’ve reduced the range, that’s how.
It’s a good change, but I still think showing people’s buff in combat log is too much. How long till we have an addon that displays enemy buffs based on that?
You say this? We whined and got our own way, one of the main arguments FOR Spy, was that their was an addon for it back in Vanilla… well… now we have a game more close to Vanilla which functions in the same way, your argument is valid now 
Are you?
It says it does not affect the combatlog.txt ( which is not usable ingame ) - the ingame combat log parsing tools such as healing/threatmeters are very much affected by this.
And I want to thank you for this, you’ve effectively added a very nice spam filter to spy - I am now only notified of enemies when they are close enough to become an issue for me.
Can you please whine some about it picking up flying people too, it’s a little annoying to get notified about enemies I can’t attack
I’m not sure how it picks up flying enemies? I know it does but according to what people say in it’s defence, it shouldn’t since they aren’t doing any actions while they fly.
I feel better now I don’t get alerts only to mind vision and find out there 100yards down a cliff somewhere anyway
There’s an option there to ignore enemies not flagged for pvp, which includes the flying ones.
The modern combat log detects more than just actions, it also sees active auras.
Because in legion when you have an aura ( and remember “equip: …” is an aura apparently ) and approach an enemy you scream at them “HEY YOU OVER THERE I HAVE +5 DAGGERS” this is unhampered by flying
You sure?
Last I checked the options were to disable spy when you were not flagged for pvp or when you were flying, i’d check but I cant launch a client from here
What do you mean by equip is an aura like just having weapons?? I stopped playing around legion time so have no idea about this?
My bad, I was sure there was such an option but apparently I’m wrong, it only disables when you’re not flagged yourself.
No you seem to have sone eye problems.
It says: “This fix does not affect text logs that the game outputs for raid parses.“
Set bonuses and green "equip: … " are counted as auras.
But apparently blizzard may have fixed this getting spammed in the combat log aswell;
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/dzx812/details_on_how_the_combat_log_spy_was_nerfed/
This is a much more impactfull ( and IMO better! ) “nerf” of spy, it should also make the networks spam less
Aww who is a special little child who doesn’t under stand what a “raid parse” is, you are, yes you are.
/pat
now run along and play with your doll the adults are talking
Why don’t they just put the 50 yards limit outdoors and not in dungeons or raids ?