We really need a functioning damage meter

PVP Arenas
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Kind of surprised that PVE players haven’t complained enough about this to get something done, suppose they just rely on warcraft logs now?

This thing is so beyond useless and its not like you can sift through combat logs in any given moment as if what you’re looking for is more than like 10 globals back its prob no longer in the window.

Its like out of habit after a game I go to check things on meter to see what was doing what and half the time it didn’t record everything and the other half you’re just reminded there is next to no useful information available on it.

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Yer, pve still able to use logs.

Addon changes flunked so hard (as expected) it almost gives me a bit of hope they’ll walk them back. :dracthyr_a1:

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Agreed, bring back weakauras. :stuck_out_tongue:

On a serious note, how come mine and so many other people’s post counts reset this xpac?

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Hmm. Migration to bnet system, perhaps?

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Huh, I could’ve sworn alts had same post history now. Maybe Bluster knows.

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New Kennie alt unlocked.

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Back in my day people used to read the combat log

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Super annoying trying to determine the usefulness of talents etc in PvP when so many of them have PvP modifiers. Even more frustrating when the damage meter lumps in certain talents with other abilities so you can’t even distinguish between them. Unable to track the uptime on auras to determine proc rates.

They definitely took multiple steps backwards on this one

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Yeah bc it worked back then, now when you press 1 button 14 things happen and 3 pages of combat log prints.

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Pretty sure I was using recount in BC. It was better than what we have now. Even details is pretty worthless now.

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I must be using the WoW damage meter incorrectly as I can’t find a way to view a breakdown of individual hits. Surely there’s no way everyone using it is ok with just seeing damage grouped by ability with no detailed breakdown. I have to be missing something.

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Avg player just wants to see dps/dmg/healing to know if they’re at the top because that’s the extent of their analysis

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Detailed damage breakdown and logs was unfortunately too difficult for the average player to parse. Good thing Big Blizzard stepped in to remove any potential for confusion.

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Blizzard:Step aside, I’ll handle this!

Craps the bed

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Here is a detailed view of Blizzard designing the next iteration of the in-game damage meter.

I’m really looking forward to more colors and bigger numbers.

Now to find my crayons.

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What’s your favorite flavor mine is cherry.

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I think they do away with numbers altogether. Damage will just be listed as:

  • High
  • Higher
  • Highest

That way everyone is doing great damage and feeling good about themselves :hugs:

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What was even the reasoning to Blizz destroying Details?

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It was funny.

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Yellow.

Actually chuckled.

What if the meters also gave you encouragement as well.

“Your damage is great! Ignore the haters.”
“Have you tried the one button rotation?”
“Big numbers are just a construct of the mind. What’s in your heart is really what matters.”

It was just fallout from them killing WA. They all pulled data from the api log and that had to die. :frowning:

lol. I mean, at this point, you KNOW someone is having fun with this. Some dev that didn’t get invited to a raid 10 years ago is finally getting pay back on all the gatekeepers!!!1

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