Combat log & Event handling on Pandawow

[C9Winston]

First of all this Report adresses mainly the usage of addons such a

 

TrufiGCD and Atrox Arena viewer.

 

I'll give a short introduction followed up by the report later on.

 

Now, what are these Addons supposed to do ?

 

Atrox Arena Viewer: is an arena replay addon, that lets you record or even broadcast arena matches. These arena matches can be viewed within WoW, while doing your daily quests, raids or just idling in Dalaran.

 

http://cdn-wow.mmoui.com/preview/pvw38918.jpg

 

TrufiGCD: a small addon, that shows the last used abilities of party or arena members.

 

 

Now what do these 2 Addons have in common & what is the Issue here?.

 

It's the fact that both will record the "COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED (CLEU)" event to show what spells have been used and to collect as much data as possible.

 

The problem right now that you're facing on Pandawow can be tested quite easily when simply downloading TrufiGCD. You will notice that it will look something similar to this:

 

 

This wasn't recorded on Pandawow but it's basically a problem across every MoP server out there.

 

Now As you can see in my video, it's a hella mess and you can see literally every single proc which makes the addon completly unusable.

 

Here an example on how it should look like :

 

 

Conclusion:

 

The mage is casting fireball and neither the procs he gets, nor the ignite proc (mastery) is shown in TrufiGCD. You can see that the icon appears as soon as the spell goes off. I assume the addon works with the “SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS” and SPELL_CAST_START event. Ignite and Jade spirit triggers “SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS” so the addon itself shows the icon that is successfully casted. Can provide the addon/LUA file for in depth insight aswell if needed: https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info21820-TrufiGCD.html#other The addon used in that video was the earliest one.

 

Now, this doesn't only affect ignite and jade spirit but basically every proc / aura coming up on your character.

 

Now let's look into Atrox Arena viewer:

 

Now, I'm mainly doing this report to get this addon fixed because you can track every single arena game and know exactly what happened which will eventually help finding bugs on cross realm.

 

Let's start first with the fact that Atrox Arena viewer works differently. Yes, it should show the spells used aswell but whenever you try to even watch a recorded match on Pandawow, it gives you an error and tells you that the file is corrupt and can't be viewed anymore. Why is that ?

 

This is just an assumption but I'd assume that it has something to do with the Addon being unable to save anything that happened on cross. Once you recorded a match (finished the game) The Addon will save the recorded Data in your Addon config folder (WTF/ACCOUNT/SAVEDVARIABLES/aav.lua). I compared it to some other MoP server where it DOES record and you can see that on Pandawow, it will create an entry, saving everything but the combat log. Means you will have the character names, which Arena is played and so on but the spell list or anything that happened in your combat log isn't recorded. Maybe because the combat log has an issue already resetting itself after every arena ? That's just my guess and I'd be thankful if anyone could look into it & help me trying to get it fixed.

 

Oh and by the way, the event bug mentioned above will also affect Atrox Arena viewer (once it's working) so it's not less important.

 

Best example here how it should not look like once it's fixed:

 

https://i.gyazo.com/00b7ebff743ba486639f12f66c53571e.mp4

 

Download links:

 

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/aav-atrox-arena-viewer/files/

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/trufigcd/files

Edited July 30, 2019 by C9Winston