Raid-wide combat spam

[Haenir]

Is it possible in the current client to make all members in a group/raid see full combat spam, i.e., hits messages are raid-wide?

This would be nice when parsing, but perhaps not desired (are there any fights where ignorance of what a portion of your raid is doing is a part of the fight? -- I can't think of any off the top of my head).

 

[Nwaij]

There are 2 reasons I know off why one would not pick up all raids combat spam: bad filter settings and range issues. Fixing the 1st is on you, 2nd is most likely a client issue.

 

[Swiftur]

^What Nwaij said. Regarding filters in general... we will be getting A LOT more chat filters with the 2.5 release! It shall be grand.

 

[Haenir]

Yeah, I should have been more specific, I meant seeing combat spam zonewide while in a raid (like how you see loot messages zonewide).

we will be getting A LOT more chat filters with the 2.5 release!

=)

 

[Zaela]

Should be doable. Range on damage reports is determined serverside -- just a matter of sending versus not sending the packet. (Makes sense, too: why have the server waste effort sending out packets it knows will be ignored? And then conversely, why bother with a client restriction for something already enforced by the server?)

 

[jumbers]

I thought I upped the range on damage messages a while back when I changed some other messages to be raid-wide, but it looks like that may have only happened in my imagination. I'm pretty sure these are set so low due to the olden days of fast packet loss.

Next patch damage messages should be group/raid-wide regardless of range and I'll bump the range for non-group/raid people a bit as well.