Yeah man go on the reddit theres been a bunch of tests showing the distance of spy is far greater than what you’re saying, and ive seen it myself when using spy and mindvision for someone who is out of render distance.
…sigh… when talking to imbeciles… next time at least do some research before embarrasing yourself…
1st) this topic isnt about fresh server
2nd) I am also leveling an alt on PvP server and sometimes I kill, sometimes I got killed. Get used to it
You disagree with you own post, but well i go play with my action figures. Have fun with the other “adults“.
Source of the problem: The log wasn’t behaving like this before. This is a combat log inherited from a later wow I bet.
Those opponents buffs appearing in my combat log breaks game, I see Crippling poison pop in log, I gear up for tanking a rogue. I see Demon armor pop in Log, I gear up with Shadow reflect trinket & a few +SR gear.
It’s predictive, it’s not normal.
Thank you for this change. Our of curiosity, before this change, what was the old radius set at? (That is, if they are the same thing, up to what radius did classic spy work?)
That guy says 60… for some reason, it’s not true. I was spotting people at least 100 yards away, some hunters have said they have spotted people out of range of their hunters mark which is 100+ some tests show around 200 yards, so it’s a huge nerf
Gotta laugh at all the cry babies crying about the cry babies that supposedly broke all their precious addons.
Spy needed nerfing end of story!! how this actually affects other addons, blizzard will know better than anyone in this thread!! and if it does break some addons that Blizzard deem are a benefit to the game they will fix it!!
Bunch of whiners…
The addon is not broken, but nerfed. I agree that it needed a nerf.
Absolutely no issue with this change, it reduces the dispairity between people who use Spy (I am) and people who don’t. Atleast within 50 yrds players should be noticable rather than spy picking up players outside of your vision.
One thing this change will be good for is the raid mobs roaming and getting spy beeps from the otherside of the planet.
But for the issues people actualy complain about… rogues stealthing and their pray being alerted… this change isnt going to change that one bit as i’d be willing to bet most rogues will be within 50yds.
what an excellent move!
More ganking woooo hoooo !!!
Yeah… I showed you a video of how it happens, and explained the process, remember? 
And
…as several people have pointed out, this will affect other addons using the combat logs. Maybe they’ll find a workaround for that, maybe not.
I remember the video, I didn’t see it picking up people though it just confused me haha.
It doesn’t seem to affect it too bad, and it’s a good price to pay for more equal wPVP, already today it’s been an improvement I’ve seen people in the distance and it hasn’t popped up on SPY which is nice to see
If it’s closer to 1.12, then the worst-case-scenario where it hurts other addons is a reasonable loss
Based upon the blue post it’s safe to say there is some mechanism for damage-control (e.g keeping the old broken range in raid instances?). Otherwise, those who are outraged by these changes need to choose one of the following:
both can’t be true (personally i think both are going to be proven completely wrong but that’s just me)
“blizzard know better” they have shown us so much in the past that they do not know better though.
I lost my trust in them years ago.
It was a pretty straightforward demonstration. People flew past me, and you could see their auras and buffs pop up in my combat log. Nothing complicated about it. ^^
But I saw someone saying Blizz left out another change they made, and that the combat log won’t pick up auras/buffs like that anymore. Gonna test it a bit later. If it’s true, then Spy should no longer pick up people just riding past.
Exactly one of the biggest arguments for it was their was an addon like this in vanilla… well now the game is closer to vanilla, they’re fumbling for reasons
No, one of the biggest arguments against Spy was that there wasn’t anything like it Vanilla.
Oh yeah my bad, I didn’t notice it but I’ve had a day to get used to SPY now might make more sense can you link again?
As to the people riding past that seems to be what’s happening now, noticed a few alliance run past and they didn’t pop up until they attacked me!
Not that much, as there is faction imbalance, so one of the factions will have to wait a lot between BGs, and they will be doing wPvP meanwhile.