Guild Wars 2

Really this thing needs some major love. It has no information. Tell us when we go down, when we die, when we rally, when we stomp. Tell us what effects we get and give, let it scroll much further. Some of us like to learn from each death and the current combat log is just… not good.

and it should show healing!

I’m willing to accept a minimalist combat log, as the chat window on a whole is very simplistic to other MMOs. My major gripe is the lack of even differentiating a crit from a regular strike other than a higher damage number. Since the damage number that pop up over my head have that style change to show crits, could the crit hits at least be bolded in the log?

Also, other wishes, could the incoming damage and outgoing damage be different colors. Like Stiv is saying, I’d like to be able to look at the log for less than 15 seconds and know what happened and, hopefully, where I went wrong.