At the Guild Summit BioWare announced that they will be releasing a combat log in the 1.2 Legacy Patch. This will show you everything that you do, or is done to you, with detailed information covering even exact threat numbers. This will be viewable in game and can be written to text file for parsers as well. You can check it out now on the PTR.
This means that Damage Meters are here. These combat logs can be parsed by external software to show real time damage meters for yourself in game. Two notable examples of these are ACT and Rift Combat Parser.
Also it will be interesting to see whether the Dev Team has been accurate in their claims. Georg Zoeller said at the Guild Summit that Marauder/Sentinel and Sniper/Gunslinger were the 2 highest dps classes in game currently, and a recent Dev Post also stated that Operatives were within 5% of Marauders.
So whether you were for or against this coming out, the day has come where it will be released. The new question becomes what new software will be released for these combat logs, and when will there be a new website that will compile this data similar to World of Logs for WoW.
It’s not a question of whether these things will happen, but when will they happen. So what do you think knowing this? Do you think something should be done to tell BioWare that this is a bad idea? Tell us what you think of all of this. Leave a comment below!
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