REQUEST: SPELL_AURA_APPLIED/REMOVED to show 'who'
 

Here goes...

The new 2.4 combat log events, SPELL_AURA_APPLIED and SPELL_AURA_REMOVED would benefit greatly from having the src* fields contain data about the player/mob that applied the aura that is fading or has been applied.

Current...

5/11 20:51:24.267 SPELL_AURA_APPLIED,0x0000000000000000,nil,0x80000000,0xF1300059A4000090,"Gurtogg Bloodboil",0x8010a48,27216,"Corruption",0x20,DEBUFF
5/11 20:51:41.938 SPELL_AURA_REMOVED,0x0000000000000000,nil,0x80000000,0xF1300059A4000090,"Gurtogg Bloodboil",0x8010a48,27216,"Corruption",0x20,DEBUFF

Proposed...

5/11 20:51:24.267 SPELL_AURA_APPLIED,0x0000000001AE6C10,"Footrot",0x511,0xF1300059A4000090,"Gurtogg Bloodboil",0x8010a48,27216,"Corruption",0x20,DEBUFF
5/11 20:51:41.938 SPELL_AURA_REMOVED,0x0000000001AE6C10,"Footrot",0x511,0xF1300059A4000090,"Gurtogg Bloodboil",0x8010a48,27216,"Corruption",0x20,DEBUFF

The rationale is that it would make it much simpler and less taxing on the client for the construction of addons that monitor the debuffs on mobs.

EDIT: This request is primarily for those spells where it is 100% unambiguous to deduce. In my example, I used Corruption. I would NOT expect this to work for things such as the Tree of Life aura, or Paladin auras.

I've been hoping for this change as well, as the methods to do 'accurate' dot/hot tracking on live are pretty messy*. Though its at least a hopeful sign that AURA_REFRESH is now working properly on the beta servers (I got a CombatLog from a friend that shows that working), so heres to hoping for proper source information on _AURA_ as well.

* I'm currently using a (rather horrid) mashup of UNIT_AURA with COMBAT_LOG_EVENT to do this tracking, and it would be lovely to drop the UNIT_AURA entirely.

I'd be in favor of this as well, I have made a request on the Blizzard forums for them to fix this a few months ago.

It's good to hear we're getting a refresh event, that is much needed.


As far as the code I'm working with, I had to do a mix of UNIT_SPELLCAST and the CombatLog's SPELLCAST_START and SPELLCAST_SUCCEED. The new code runs completely off the CombatLog's SPELL_AURA events, and is picking up everything. I have it group target durations by spell, but I'm still worried about overloading the user with data. I guess I'll have to see how bad it is when I get the UI up and running. I may end up putting the messy code back in.

I completely forgot about this post :/ but, I made a request like that about a month or so ago and got a reply from Slouken basically saying "not a chance, we aren't giving you that" ... so for wotlk at least, its the old unit_aura event or bust.

This may be available now. I just got this event during testing on beta, when my Shackle wore off a mob.

9/16 15:44:04.375 SPELL_AURA_REMOVED,0x00000000000794A7,"Wikwocket",0x511,0xF1300052D0188F8D,"Screeching Spirit",0xa48,9484,"Shackle Undead",0x2,DEBUFF