Here’s What I’m Looking For

Posted on Monday, 09.1.2008 by Lassirra

I need an out-of-game tool that will take data from a raw combat log, and return “plain english” line-by-line results (like you would see via the combat log in-game).

In other words, I need a tool that will take this mess:

7/4 16:13:58.490 SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS,0x00000000003CE32B,”Lassirra”,0×511,
0xF130005D370000D2,”Zul’jin”,0x10a48,34026,”Kill Command”,0×1

And turn it into:

7/4 16:13:58.490 Lassirra’s Kill Command hits Zul’jin for 80 billion damage

Now, I have the WoW Log Parser, which I’ll grant is handy, but not what I’m looking for at the moment. It lacks the line-by-line “plain english” data that I must have. If you know of a tool that does what I need, let me know! You’ll get a cookie.

(Note: Keep in mind, I’m looking for an out-of-game tool to process past combat logs, not something to be used in-game as an addon.)

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About Lassirra

A former Hunter columnist for WoW.com and Content Editor for The Azeroth Advisor, Lassirra has acted as Hunter class leader, officer and raid leader in numerous end-game guilds over the past six years. She also enjoys leveling and optimizing alts, with the ultimate goal of having one of each class at the level cap.
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6 Responses to Here’s What I’m Looking For

  1. Gwaendar says:
    Monday, 09.1.2008 at 11:16 am

    Wow webstats would do that, except that the output is html instead of plain text, no?

    Gwaendars last blog post..Summertime ‘08 Means Altitis is Offline

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  2. gnomeaggedon says:
    Monday, 09.1.2008 at 10:06 pm

    Yeah, WWS might be the go, you can force it on, so you don’t have to be reliant on being in an instance etc.

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  3. Leaf says:
    Tuesday, 09.2.2008 at 12:35 am

    Hey, future blogger here, I hope. Anyway, just here to maybe give you some options. I put them in order of what I think is relevant to what you want.

    Jorge’s “WoW Combat Log Parser”
    http://www.jorgev.com/archives/000138.html

    WowCardioRaid
    http://wow.curseforge.com/projects/wcardioraid/

    The first seem to do what you want from what I see of it, I haven’t tried it myself yet though. Hope it was helpful.

    /Leaf

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  4. Lassirra says:
    Tuesday, 09.2.2008 at 8:57 am

    @Gwaendar: The problem with WWS is that it doesn’t provide a line-by-line break-down, which is what I’m actually looking for. (In fact, the line-by-line thing is the primary function I’m looking for.) Otherwise, I would’ve just used that.

    @gnomeaggedon: See above response. ;)

    @Leaf: I’ll be checking out both to see if they do what I’m looking for (and if not, they may prove useful for other things later on). Thanks for the recommendations. :)

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  5. Gwaendar says:
    Tuesday, 09.2.2008 at 11:25 am

    Err in WWS under the Browse menu, at the bottom you have “Browse log file”, isn’t that what you meant?

    I’m confuzzled.

    Gwaendars last blog post..This was bound to happen…

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  6. Lassirra says:
    Tuesday, 09.2.2008 at 1:20 pm

    @Gwaendar: Well I’ll be damned! You get two cookies! Why didn’t I ever notice that feature before? :neutral:

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