Originally Posted by Inokis
How about someone actually explaining the new combat log/events system. Everything i've read does a poor job at it and to me none of it makes any sense.
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As I understand it, rather than spew out text that add-ons have to manually parse with regular expressions, WoW will now send structured data to add-ons. So instead of getting
"Mazzle hit Tekkub for 2333 of whoopass damage!"
add-ons will get one of their functions called with parameters like
Source: Mazzle
Target: Tekkub
Amount: 2333
Type: whoopass
It should be much easier to deal with, more efficient and far less ambiguous in certain cases. It just requires some stuff to be rewritten to handle getting the data in a different format.