2/22/2012 -> Can we get an update on where the Combat Log is?

That's a complete exaggeration. I've never played an MMO, where I get a full set of purple, for just logging in. Not once has that ever happened.

Name one game, where that is true.

Well ToR operations on all difficulty levels are pretty close to it, just go raiding whatever peoplein guild, clear nightmare modes in a evening get purple pixels. There was supposed to be 3 difficulty levels to cater for all kinda raiders, but there is only one.

Actually I have, and never once was I given a full set of gear when my que come up. Also for some players those heroics are not 'facerolls', as they may be for a 'pro raider' such as yourself.

People play at different levels in MMOs, and it's a balancing act for devs to keep everyone happy. it's not easy, but it's made easier when gamers respect each others play styles. When raiders sneer and look down upon normal gamers, it's not good for the community, and for the health of the game.

People play for there own reasons, not for the reasons of other people.

Balance is what we need.

Meters, Logs and Addons are NOT in the future of gaming, sorry!

A title being released in May - Tera, which has a huge commercial budget and a subscription based model has further developed it. You don't tab a target.

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I'm not even off of Hutta yet.

if it makes you feel any better, I may never get to see those 'free' purple pixles. I play with a dear, life long friend, and i'm a little shy of playing with anyone else....it's just the two of us.

Are you happy now?

You don't hand out current raid tier loot for doing 5-man content. The reason gear score came into being was because if you weren't geared to the teeth in Wrath you were either not trying or just freshly capped. People had to weed out the folks in lesser gear from their faceroll pugs because they didn't want to carry people.

Tera has combat logs and it has a system in place where you can set up your abilties to be used in a certain order by hitting a hotkey. For example my Sorc will use painful trap then hit 4 to use my flame pillar then hit 4 again to jump back. It's basically an interactive macro. Soooo....I guess the future is combat logs and interactive macros?

WE ARE?!

But damage meters -- and then eventually the armory/gearscore -- are the entire reason they had to start handing out welfare epics in WoW. People who used to have a chance at experiencing the content were being systematically blocked from it unless they had high-end gear. It's a vicious cycle that this game is doomed to repeat if the devs don't learn something from it.