Warcraftlogs has made the game for me personally alot more fun because I can analyze combat encounters and be able to figure out how to optimize my gameplay very easily. It's also functioned as a pseudo time capsule since I can check on historical logs from previous expansions and reminisce :).
Love Warcraftlogs <3
They also have great fast free support. I was amazed.
On the flip side, damage meters and logs have also put the game in a bad place. Gear score and parsing sometimes really sucks the fun out of it and turns it into a competitive / exclusionary game instead of the cooperative get some friends and kill some bosses game it was intended to be.
Here's to ten more! <3
I find logs to be fairly useless for the avg lfr/normal/heroic player who isn't doing mythic raid to gauge themselves by. The ilvl% parses are very easily manipulated so not much use to gauge yourself by unless you really mine down and find people with your exact same gear set. The extra powers on some pieces ( Nelth bow for example) can make it seem you are terrible if you dont have it even if your rotation is flawless. Also, unless you have the top end gear you'll always parse green/blue overall.That being said, its interesting to look at the other stats and see what gear the top parses are using.
lmfao yeah bro, i'm sure the "inspiration" came from "his time in throne of thunder". not world of logs, the original logging site, and maybe wanting to make a better product.man. not even a single mention of it. pathetic. really shows how new the community these days are and how little they know about the real past OG sites.
As someone that was raiding with Kihra when he came up with Warcraft Logs, this makes me feel really nostalgic! I still remember the raid night on Dark Animus that prompted Kihra to want to make his own logs. World of Logs not giving the detailed information we needed to see which of the little adds was getting messed up, and Kihra saying "I know the data is in the combat logs, we just need a way to see them individually" and then "Well the data is already there, how hard could it be to get it split up?" to "How hard could it be to just make my own website for this?" and the rest is history. The 8 years he was doing it all by himself shows just how awesome of a guy he is. The dedication, resourcefulness, and thoughtfulness Kihra has had over the years with Warcraft Logs, whether he's raiding or not, has forever shaped the WoW community.
Shout out to Kihra. Absolute G.
i like seeing orange and pink number next to my name (:
In before LFR "Logs made the game worse" comments
i wish blizzard would use it to balance class ...