[Suggestion] Your Attack Staggers the Fiend!

<me> uses <ws>./<px> uses <ws>.
The <ws> staggered the feind.
Does <dmg> to the <t> and staggered it.

I think the only reason why this would be difficult is if the code is very spagetti'd. It's just messing with the output message of the weapon skills. Since the stagger (!!) is decided from the algorithm when the monster is claimed it is stored as a bool I am assuming so the only reason this would be difficult is adding within the spagetti code something to the stagger value an out put to say what the target for that value was.

I am not sure what the game is coded in personally but it basically amounts to:
(output) > The attack staggers the foe.
(output) > The foe can't (effect)
the file would just have to include the flag for the predefined variable. Which exists within the code and is why abyssite of discrernment works.

so they'd need to change the prompt from
(output) > The attack staggers the foe.
-to-
(output) > The (trigger) staggers the foe.

I don't see how thats hard, unless they're in strange locations or they don't have a search function, or they don't have the tags indexed. Personally I think the few reasons why those would be a case, at least not the search function is if the devs thought the code was perfect to begin within and didn't think it would ever have to revised.

Heck if they'd want send me the files and I'll patch it for them

I agree something needs to be done, and yes Gukumatz/Sirrush/Sobek are by far the worst contenders for this problem. You'll sometimes even have Nehebkau (the raptor) being fought at that camp too, so that's four possible NMs at a time.

All it really needs to say is which NM you've staggered. Don't need which ws or spell triggered it, as, if you're in charge of a set of procs, you should be paying attention. Multiple Black mages in a party split responsibilities; one does AM and -aga III, the other does tier III and IV etc. Let's not make it too easy...

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Originally Posted by Camate

We spoke to the dev. team about the possibility of including names in the chat log to make it clearer who staggered an enemy. They looked into this and mentioned that it is a bit difficult to include any more information into the log at the moment, so they will have to put this off for the time being.

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Did you go though all the comments? if that cannot be done, STOP SHOWING OUTSIDE PTS PROCS! Is that hard to do? why was it made like that to begin with??

I don't know the sound the it makes when it staggers the foe, I only know the sound it makes when it takes a NMs life.

OP good idea

Keeping the stagger information within the party would be enough. We can filter out actions taken outside of parties, can't you just make it so that stagger information falls under this chat filter?

Why not just allow that message only to be viewed by the party that staggered it? When people fight NMs next to eachother it gets so confusing about which party got what proc.

Why not change the stagger message to be included in the group "Special Action Effects On/By Others", since this is a filter option many use to eliminate the status message spam of outside parties.

Also, a bit off topic:

Can we SEPARATE all ON/BY actions/effect filters to ON and BY? I've been wishing for that for 5 years now.

In Dynamis it now says "<playername> Staggers the fiend", While its not like this in Abyssea yet, At the very least they took the idea and used it for the neo-dynamis system.

They're listening :o

it works like that in dynamis.. why not abyssea nms?