Guild Wars 2

Combat log is essential to player improvement and understanding of game, how can one improve after failure when they can not see what caused it?

The “thing” we have now that you call combat log is not worthy of that name, it is close to useless just as death breakdown is.

Combat log should have high time stamp resolution (1 sec or less) and log following and possibly more:
-condition ticks
-condition appliance(with source: player and skill)
-condition cleanse(with source: player and skill)
-condition fade
-buff gains(with source: player and skill)
-buff fade
-buff steal
-healing taken – regeneration included(with source: player and skill)
-skills that does not damage but cause other effects(such as scorpion wire, magnet, updraft)
-stun/daze/knockdown (with source: player and skill)
-stun/daze/knockdown fade
-stun/daze/knockdown break
-direct damage + crit/normal (with source: player and skill)
-evades(where it came from and what skills it evaded)
-blocks(what was blocked)

-damage modifiers from traits and such (self only)
-cooldown going off (self only)

All of that with proper filtering options such as:
-only done by me/affecting me
-only on allies
-only on enemies
-all
-do not display(list of things to ignore – should be possible to include everything that can be logged)

Possibly more.

Chop chop make it happen anet

In Beta there was a switch that allowed one to save the combat log to a file. Not that it would help with the detail you are asking for but it was a way to keep track of dmg and loot drops or lack thereof.
This was something that was asked for a long time ago and was allocated to the old sub forum that was “Suggestions” or the thread graveyard as it was known.
I hope they do implement this as I don’t see a possible negative. Players that want to min/max their numbers could benefit greatly. Maybe I’m just missing some sort of exploit or negative here but I can’t think of one.

It would be good for min maxers but even better for people in pvp wondering “why did I die?”/“How do I improve?”