Monday, April 27, 2009

Buff chaos fixed

When I started playing with logs years ago, WoW was still using the old English (or localized) .txt format - "You gained Marked of the Wild" instead of comma separated values today. One thing we didn't account for in the transition is that more fields are available now - Blizzard added the cause or caster of the aura, which is nice, but caused a bit of chaos on World of Logs.

The code doing the player details page is simple - if source or target matches the one you want information on - sum it and display it. But since auras have a caster nowadays, it also summed every thing you cast as if you got it - uh oh.

But that's fixed now. Buffs, debuffs and power gains are now split by source and target; use the tab "Buffs gained" to see what buffs/debuffs were cast on you during the fight, and "Buffs cast" to see what buffs/debuffs you caused/cast.


I knew Replenishment was a powerful spell, but I'd never have guessed that one Paladin can regenerate 141860 mana for the raid during a Hodir kill.. Nice :P

I also tried checking my own Revitalize to see how well that talent works, but damn you Blizzard, it's just like the old lifebloom - according to combat log, the targets cast it on themselves so you can't go to a druid and see how much his Revitalize did. Doh. Well, the spell details page will fix that, if there's only one tree in the raid with that talent, but otherwise we can always guesstimate it.

2 comments:

  1. Replenishment is also provided by SV hunters, of which there were 3 in that raid... ;-)

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  2. Nevermind - didn't see that it was a player's details... ;-)

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