Guild Wars 2

Haven’t seen this posted but apparently as part of the feature pack the combat log is getting some love:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/September_2014_Feature_Pack

http://www.guildmag.com/preview-september-2014-feature-pack/

From the links above:

The combat log will receive a major overhaul in its design and functionality. ¹
Instead of being just toggled on/off, the channel can be further configured to show the following action separately:
Incoming Buff Damage
Incoming Healing
Incoming Damage
Incoming Interrupts
Incoming Mitigated Damage
Outgoing Buff Damage
Outgoing Healing
Outgoing Damage
Outgoing Interrupts
Outgoing Mitigated Damage
Critical hits are separately labeled
Damage numbers will be shown in different colors: Green for healing, orange for damage, red for critical damage, purple for condition damage
Player skills are displayed as chat links and provide more information on hover.
Ranger pets, necromancer minions and other summoned allies show up in the log but for now appear as if the player does the damage².

So lots more useful info coming in the combat log.

There is still one glaring omission, unless they’ve changed the way damage is displayed.

I still dont see condition damage on this list. Currently, the log only shows direct damage. I would love to see a log of condition damage ticks.

Cool, welcome future damage meters!

I’d prefer a separate pet damage counter but this is a welcome change even if it does mean a crapload of toggles to turn on and off in chat tabs.

Are they seriously going to tout this as a feature? This is 2014 and better combat logs were done over a decade ago. If this game allowed addons we could have a better combat log inside a week. Instead it’s taken them 2 years to do this. It’s a welcome change, but we shouldn’t be patting them on the back for something that should have been done on day 1. They certainly shouldn’t be getting away with hyping this as a major feature.

I’m confused. How do they announce an upcoming feature without ‘hyping’ it. I mean, the forums are full of posts commenting on how we are not told enough. And when something is announced, ArenaNet is accused of ‘hyping’ it. For pete’s sake! smh