Guild Wars 2

It’s pretty obvious that a lot of deaths occur directly as a result of CC. It would be nice if players could quantify this.

would be great if they reworked the combat log completely, its almost useless in current state.

Neftex.7594:

would be great if they reworked the combat log completely, its almost useless in current state.

Elaborate if you are going to say it need a rework. How you want it to look like?

well first great thing would be if it actually showed everything that happened to you and what you did to enemies + options to filter stuff out – that could possibly be done with 3rd party program but not until the combat log actually shows everything

Well, Combat log pretty much show everything except when you are affected by non damage conditions (light CC) or stuns/dazes/knockdown/launch (hard CC) as long you/your enemy were not interupted. So yeah, I think they could add that too.

Now about the filters, I don’t see why I need a 3rd party program when I have the filter option ingame.

I had to put on windowed mode because it didn’t let me take a screenshot with the options open.

1) the combat log sometimes doesnt log everything (got hit by 19k coalescence some time ago, wasnt even shown in combat log)

2) those filters arent enough, lets say i want to find everything that hit more than 5k or damage dealt to 1 particular enemy etc.

Neftex.7594:

1) the combat log sometimes doesnt log everything (got hit by 19k coalescence some time ago, wasnt even shown in combat log)

2) those filters arent enough, lets say i want to find everything that hit more than 5k or damage dealt to 1 particular enemy etc.

Ok, now we making progress, you finally said exactly what you want. That’s how you make suggestions.

they know all this kitten already from other threads or even their own heads can come up with simple stuff like this…

Jeknar.6184:

Neftex.7594:

1) the combat log sometimes doesnt log everything (got hit by 19k coalescence some time ago, wasnt even shown in combat log)

2) those filters arent enough, lets say i want to find everything that hit more than 5k or damage dealt to 1 particular enemy etc.

Ok, now we making progress, you finally said exactly what you want. That’s how you make suggestions.

Hear, hear.

Some use cases could also help improving the combat log or perhaps to implement alternative method of achieving the goals.

For example:

• As a player I want to know what damage sources contributed to my last death so that I know to pay attention to those in future.
• As a mesmer I want to know how much damage my iWarlock did so that I can either shatter him earlier as useless thing he is or keep him about and let him win fights for me.

A combat log might not be the best solution for the above use cases.

I would like to see a damage recap pie chart

Condition damage dealt %
Power damage dealt %
Damage from Misc (IE Resistance/Feedback) %
And a CC tracker saying how many times stunned/daze/ect

edit: …that I could just put on the screen and it auto-updates itself when combat starts and ends, visually displaying the damage taken in real time.

This request would be better posted in this thread if you already haven’t done so.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Quality-of-Life-Suggestions

Nethod.7068:

I would like to see a damage recap pie chart

Condition damage dealt %
Power damage dealt %
Damage from Misc (IE Resistance/Feedback) %
And a CC tracker saying how many times stunned/daze/ect

edit: …that I could just put on the screen and it auto-updates itself when combat starts and ends, visually displaying the damage taken in real time.

That would be great a feature. You would not even need to wade through combat log entries in many cases.

Tossing another idea:

• Instant replay camera after death.
  • Plays back last 20 seconds prior death in slow motion.
  • Augmented floating combat text shows what skills you used and what skills affected you.
  • Options to hide augmented combat log texts or entire UI and to control replay speed.
  • Can saved as a video file or shared over social media.

Yes and the hundred or so more items that should be in there but aren’t… since we asking for items we will probably never get… how about the ability to save it out.

Player to combat log: What killed me?
Combat log: I don’t know… why can’t you figure it out?

Straegen.2938:

Yes and the hundred or so more items that should be in there but aren’t… since we asking for items we will probably never get… how about the ability to save it out.

Player to combat log: What killed me?
Combat log: I don’t know… why can’t you figure it out?

Or they can just add a line written “You downed” and “You died”, so you can see the time it happened and make it slightly easier to figure it out. and shouldn’t be too hard to add this one honestly.

Straegen.2938:

Yes and the hundred or so more items that should be in there but aren’t… since we asking for items we will probably never get… how about the ability to save it out.

Player to combat log: What killed me?
Combat log: I don’t know… why can’t you figure it out?

I remember there was an external tool which allowed you to save the combat log into a file. The tool scans pixels on your screen, locates the combat log and converts the pixels into text. It included an overlay for damage meters. The whole thing looked overly complicated and I never bothered to install it.

All dmg should be in the combat log. no exclusions.

Haythere.7513:

All dmg should be in the combat log. no exclusions.

CC isn’t damage. I’m pretty sure all damage is there already and that’s exactly why this kitten is so confusing if you don’t filter out anything.

I wonder if this might ever happen…

First concern is lag. Information to understand what happened goes a long way, but would trade that for overall performance. In a lot of games logging has played a large factor in skill delay and processing.