The World of Warcraft Combat Log
To create a WWS report, you first need to record actions in game.
Start World of Warcraft and enter the game. At the beginning of the raid,
dungeon or solo testing session you want to create a report for, type
/combatlog into the chat box, you should get a response saying "Combat being
logged to Logs/WoWCombatlog.txt". When you're done with the raid, dungeon or
solo testing session type /combatlog again. You'll get another response
saying "Combat logging disabled". Log out of WoW and your combat log should be
in the /World of Warcraft/Logs/ folder.
More details about the combat log
Blizzard and the World of Warcraft program control what goes into the
Combat Log. This means you don't need an addon or a program running while
you're playing the game. This also means that there are a few things that don't
get logged the way we'd like.
There are a handful of addons that will automatically start the combat log in
selected raid instances and stop it when you exit. For example,
Loggerhead
The World of Warcraft game engine buffers the combatlog output. This increases
performance and prevents bot authors from using it to communicate game state
but it means you'll have to log out to the character selection screen before
you submit a combat log.
You don't have to do anything special during the raid to note bosses, wipes,
etc. Once uploaded to WWS our statistics engine splits boss kills and boss
attempts automatically.
Once you've submitted the combat log you'll probably want to delete it or move
it to another folder. World of Warcraft simply appends new combat log
information to the existing WoWCombatlog.txt file so after a second raid you'll
have a much larger log file that WWS can't accept.
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