Combat log??

[SamSmoot]

One thing I'm missing from WoW is the combat log, which shows a history of what abilities I've used, and the damage done by them. It also has an option to show damage done to my character.
It was useful when testing / learning the effect of various abilities on one another. Yes, we have the scrolling combat text, but that's only one entry per hit, and it disappears in le3ss than a second, and is often obscured by combat visual effects.

Is there a built-in log like this that I'm missing?
I checked into ACT, but it looks awfully complicated, requiring multiple modules from various places, and seems to be a lot of work just to get a short history of my actions (assuming it can even do that.)

[Vidu]

No, there is no official parser or combat log (outside of the scrolling text you mentioned) and they have repeatedly stated that they're not going to add one.

Using parsers like ACT is also against the ToS, even though you're pretty much getting away with it unless you start harrassing other people about their numbers or brag about it on the forums or ingame in enviroments where people might take an issue with it and report you (aka: maybe dont announce it in shout-chat, but if you're talking to your FC-mates in FC-chat about it where you know no one will take an issue with it and report you, you get away with it).

...from what I saw on a friends PC ACT isnt all that complicated though...

[Eldevern]

There are only the logs from the fight chat window... you probably can copy past but, yes that's not really convenient.

[Brightamethyst]

What I want from the log (also similar to WoW) is a "what happened to me" filter. Sometimes I'll die and have no idea why, but trying to figure it out by looking at the log is completely impossible. Was it my own fault, was it a healer, was it some DPS doing a mechanic wrong and ruining it for the rest of us? Who knows? Not me, unfortunately

[SamSmoot]

There are only the logs from the fight chat window... you probably can copy past but, yes that's not really convenient.

Thanks. I didn't realize the chat window had the Battle option (Just found it now). It's just what I needed. Not quite as nice as a separate window for that content, but it will do for dummy testing.

(When fighting dummies, all long CD's should be reduced to 5 seconds to reduce the time spent just waiting.)

[Barraind]

14s combat log is a horrendous, not easily filterable pile of crap.

I still dont get how integral parts of a UI are so badly handled as the foundation 14 sits on was/is.