What’s the difference between the new combat log and recount?

The hilarious thing about this post is that you've described exactly how wow raids work and which player would make a better addition to your regular wow raid team (not necessarily the most geared one), and then said we need to grow out of that very same mentality.

In SWTOR we can't even tell who the third wheels are and who's full of shyte let alone what's killing people and what needs to be worked on. It's safe to say geared people are OK and earnt it somehow, but believe it or not, some people do get carried and don't play to their character's full potential and still get geared up. But with nothing else to go by, we can only assume it was the geared players who were contributing the most, we can't tell. So it makes taking someone who's undergeared seem like the bigger risk. And it snowballs. Geared people have opportunities to get more geared/do more in the game while undergeared people are left stranded.

I know what I wrote seemed a bit much. However, the point still stands. It would be easy to just edit the numbers, even by making them realistic numbers.

The hilarious thing about your post is that it's taken like 4 months of these forums and 3 pages of this thread for someone to actually say something sensible on the pro-meter side. I've only ever thought about damage meters as being tools for exclusion because that's the only way people talk about them (and the only way I ever encountered them in WoW).

You make an excellent point about using them to figure out what's killing the team and what needs to be done to avoid it next time.

If someone making a group ever told me in game that, before they will invite me, I will need to parse some logs and upload it to a website for them to decide if I can go on a 4 man mission (a group) I would seriously tell them to Kiss My ***** ..

That would have to be the dumbest thing a group leader could ever tell someone.


As for doing an OPs, if the person that put it together can't tell who is bad by the first boss, they themselves are bad and need to pass leadership to someone else

I'd just edit the logs and add an extra digit or two for all the damage I produce and remove a digit from all the damage I take.

Third party parsers will eventually communicate with each other for real-time group parsing.

LOL? Are you serious?

Sorry to inform, but thats impossible.

Maybe i came out late in the conversation and you're just beeing sarcastic.