We need a combat log

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I know this isn’t the first post on the topic, but unless we make many of them it won’t be interpreted as a popular request, or a still outstanding one.

Without a combat log we cannot provide proper feedback. For instance, when dying in a dungeon, how do I know what killed me, and whether I could have prevented that death through better itemization, or if it was just too massive for me to possibly do anything about? I can’t know. I lack information to even know if I can be complaining or if I’m doing something wrong.

At first my thought was that we needed to know what killed us, since that information is at least given to Hardcore players, but it is actually insufficient, since sometimes one thing will put as extremely low on life and something else will coincidentally finish us off.

So I opened my chat, as I would in WoW, and looked for the Combat Log tab. It is not there. Why? We know the combat log exists, it’s necessary for the game to function properly and for testing. Why not show it to the players?

I’ll give you a concrete use case. I just died 3 or 4 times in a nightmare dungeon with the affix that makes enemies sometimes explode after dying. I don’t know that I was actually dying to that affix, or if I was just too underleveled for the dungeon and the still alive mobs were just dealing enough damage to me to one shot me regardless of me dodging the pools on the floor. Maybe I should have tanked the explosions and I accidentally dodged into one of the mobs making a big attack. I’ll never know because I have no log to check and identify what actually happened.

Please just add the damn tab in the chat box.

Cheers.

PS : this forum needs a feedback section, this shouldn’t be going in the PC General Discussion category since it also applies to consoles. What the absence of that category is hinting at for me is that maybe feedback is not welcome and Blizzard are just gonna do whatever they want to do regardless of what the players have to say… It sends the wrong message. Even if that is true, for PR reasons you don’t want to hint at it publically, and should at least pretend to be welcoming feedback.

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I would very much like the ability to at my own discretion to enable combat log in the chat box.

Just add a tab to it please, with checkbox options for :
Your Damage (direct)
Your DoT damage
Your Crits
Your Overpower
Your companions

And damage received.

As it stands the numbers are not on screen long enough, or can be offscreen due to your position versus a boss and you don’t even see them pop up.
I play Hota Barb and my damage numbers (what I can see of them) appear to have monumental fluctuation between them, and also seems to miss and deal 0 damage.

This is not a big ask, we have a chat box, we have time stamps, we have the numbers, we just need them to be enabled into the chat box.

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I was about to make a post about it.
The combat log is very welcome and would help to further develop the theorycrafting and improve the analysis of the game and even allow us to provide significant feedback to the own devs on how good / bad a build / class is.

In addition to the combat log, we also need a postmortem details of the death, so we can know exactly what led to our death:

  • How much damage we took over the last e.g. 1-3 seconds that led to our death (or allow it to be expanded between 1-3 seconds and let us navigate through it)
  • Source of the damage: elemental (fire, shadow etc), physical or environmental
  • How much was mitigated (resited/reduced by armor)

This postmortem details exists today in World of Warcraft (I’m not saying to copy pasta the concept).

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