Combat Text/Log

Hey all

There is a post about this in the suggestion forum but I thought I'd post this here for discussion. Briefly, combat text is text shown above monsters/your character to indicate any kind of damage taken (can also be use for status effect changes). a Combat log is essentialyl a seperate chat window to show the same infor, usually in a more detailed manner. MMORPG players should be quite familiar with this. There are two parts to this.

Part 1: Combat Text in the retail game
This part simply asks would you like to see this (or at least be given the option) as part of the retail game.

Part 2: Combat Text in beta
To help with testing damage abilities, I'd like to be able to see the actual values for damage. As it stands now, it's quite hard to tell if damage increasing curse actually make any difference so I'd like to see a combat log at least.

Thoughts?

Cool idea bro.

But I am hesitant about it taking up a lot of screen.

A cool thing would be like if you could switch from chat to combat log and back.

i was going to ask for this. i need numbers above the mobs and i need even bigger numbers if i crit.

Just make it optional and everyone should be satisfied.

Yeah, this would be really awesome and helpful.

My suggestion (at least for beta) is have the option to display it as an overlay, similar to the helpful boxes you get if you press F1. You could put it on the right hand side of the screen or something. Doesn't have to be flash.

That said I have no idea how much work it would be to do this :)

God, imagine how much text there would be when you're aoe'ing - ha.

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PoERickety escreveu:

As it stands now, it's quite hard to tell if damage increasing curse actually make any difference so I'd like to see a combat log at least.

They work...

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WhiteBoy88 escreveu:

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PoERickety escreveu:

As it stands now, it's quite hard to tell if damage increasing curse actually make any difference so I'd like to see a combat log at least.

They work...

Simply stating they work is not useful or helpful.

Right now its very hard to see if some curses have any effect in game with out a combat log.

Also for each persons build it would be nice to have a combat log to decide if socketing that gem is really worth it.

I support an option for floating combat texts like every modern arpg has! (d3, t2)

I hate the floating text/damage in games and DO NOT want that in POE, but do support an option to turn on damage/hit notifications in a chat window as a tool for assessing the metrics of the combat system.

Games have had these sorts of things for a very long time.

I would like to see a combat log in-game. Floating numbers don't seem to fit the mood.

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Nicseoul escreveu:

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WhiteBoy88 escreveu:

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PoERickety escreveu:

As it stands now, it's quite hard to tell if damage increasing curse actually make any difference so I'd like to see a combat log at least.

They work...

Simply stating they work is not useful or helpful.

Right now its very hard to see if some curses have any effect in game with out a combat log.

Well, if you don't want to be told something works by someone who has seen it work... I don't know.

I'm not saying there shouldn't be a log (at least for beta), I'm just telling him the curses work so he doesn't have to fret over it without a combat log.