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Originally Posted by lilkanyon
This may not be the best place to post an opinion of damage meters but I feel I must at least say my peace. I really fear damage meters being brought into Lotro. I trully believe damage meters turned World of Warcraft into a gear grind game and I would really hate to see that happen to Lotro. I quite enjoy not worrying about such things. I know that people are curious of their own damage/healing output but to be able to see others turns the game into a competition instead of a partnership. I really hope you think hard on this project before making it live as it may hurt more then it helps.
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Just an example why damagemeters are a good thing:
Recently we did boss #5 at the rift. Instead of the usual time (5 minutes or whatever, don't remember how long he usually takes but not long) it took *15 minutes* to take him down. With a damagemeter you can see what the problem was.
Please also note that lotrometer is not just a damagemeter. Actually the stats I look at most are:
- Splitup of Boss-damage to see what sort of skills bosses have and what
sort of damage THEY do
- splitup of my own damage after skill to check if I use all my skills enough
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Instead of damage meters, I'd much prefer to see a threat meter. I think it is much more conducive to gameplay that benefits all and allows for true team play more then damage meters ever could. It is refreshing for me to play the game w/o some high dps bragging his crits and tossing meters in chat every 5 seconds. Please dont' repeat the same level of immaturity WoW has. It is a major reason I left there.[/quote]
If they include thread data into the Combat Log I could include thread support. Of course this would require some integration into LOTRO, displaying threat data makes no sense in an external program.
BTW, recent version, with GUI:
http://www.file-upload.net/download.../setup.exe.html
(And I am sorry to say this version actually supports ctrl-v'ing damagemeter results into chat by using the clipboard ;-)) Couldn't resist...)
Screenshot:
http://www.file-upload.net/view-5638..._shot.JPG.html
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