The Darkness of the 2.4 Combat Log
Posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago at 8:53 am. 4 comments
I was prepared. I patched. And all my add-ons were as up-to-date as I could make them. Recount and Omen2 claimed to be up-to-date as well. Problem was neither of them worked correctly. Damage meters seemed off, Omen2 was completely inoperable.
As a result, my guild called off our Tuesday Serpentshrine Caverns run as no one really had a reliable threat meter. Most of the guild participated in Magister Terrace instance runs, though we didn’t get many upgrades as most of the gear was subpar to our existing gear.
Also, I heard a lot of guildmates commenting about the visible filtering of the combat log that occurs everytime you zone. It seems excessive and I’m not sure as a programmer why this can’t just be cached in some way.
It was interesting again to be playing without any threat or damage meters. I just had the flash of scrolling combat text to tell me that I was kicking butt. Everything seemed slightly new again and we had a record number of people online to check out the new zone and all the changes.
Still, a lot of changes in the patch seem really fun, the new dailies, the new interfaces, the new gear, the “newness” of it all. I’m just looking forward to coming out of the darkness and back into the light. ^_^
I just hope we get a working threat meter by tonight. I know a large number of people had problems with aggroing even when a long glowy bar told them they had it. >.>
The visible filtering is sooooooooo annoying, and it really seems to affect my framerate. At first I assumed it was some addon I use conflicting with the new combat log, but if this is a permanent thing, I’m going to be really disappointed. It also doesn’t seem to remember that I specified that I only want to see events related to me. =/
Omen2 works only when i play alone, soon as in party, it hides, and gives no treat.
Playing is impossible this way
I know for a fact that there is a script that you can run that will turn off the combat-text refreshing/rescrolling. If I find it again, I’ll post it up for you.