Completely breaks World PvP and the true Classic experience, and will support the whole “mafia” nonsense in Ungoro.
The addon scans the combat log for actions performed by enemy players. If an enemy player is detected the addon will attempt to determine their class, race and level based on the ability that was used. The addon will then sound an alert and add the enemy player to its list.
Spy can be configured to announce enemy player encounters to a chat channel and can also be configured to share data with other Spy users in your party, raid or guild. This allows a group of players to share information and determine the location of enemy players over a vast area.
you can do the same thing without addons. undock the combat log, make some macros “/p saw a class just now”. the addon just makes it easier. yes, that’s all addons.
yeah but let’s be honest, who does that? nobody… this is just something you can leave sitting in the background and it alerts you whenever someone is nearby and not in your vision, giving you a major heads up that you might encounter some PvP.
I don’t know what the quoted poster is doing but in a lot of PvP games without such addons, players will separate out a combat log frame and move it elsewhere on screen so they can see in red text the enemy player actions while also being able to view their regular chat log.
Edit: Here’s an old low res pic from Aion showing what I mean. Just found in a random internet search so not mine.
It has been a core function of Carbonite for a long time, too.
It doesn’t bother me. I think of it as an additional aspect of the game. When you see that blink red and the chat tells you an enemy is nearby, it doesn’t tell you WHERE they are just that they’re near. It adds a level of excitement that is just as fun as the surprise.
