SWTOR to have combat logs

As early it is, players don't waste any time to start making their own wish-lists for Star Wars The Old Republic. Developers at Bioware are already working on a lot of features to be added to the game. According to an interview on SWTOR forums, the highest priority is "Combat logs". 

How about some combat logs that you can analyse your character and adjust it for better performance? SWTOR will soon have combat logs and later a damage meter and analysis that will aid players in min-maxing.

Interviewer: So we talk about analytics and what you guys do on the developer side. Players like to do their own analytics and how to improve their characters. What tools int he game help you do that? Will you be able to export a combat log or anything like that?

Georg Zoeller: Not at this point, but it's something very high on our priority list

Interviewer: What's the pro and con of having something like that in? What's your approach to players min-maxing?

Georg Zoeller: I have no problem with players min-maxing. I'm min-maxing myself. We do have pretty good... the tooltips are pretty good. The information on the items I think is pretty good. We're right now lacking a bit is in the evaluating your performance or your group's performance. Umm what I can tell you is there's no conspiracy where we're like we're hiding this so people aren't discriminating against other players. If you want to, you know, run a very competitive operations group and you wanna improve, having this data is certainly interesting. Umm and we're not against it, it's just right now not in. Will it make it in for launch? We don't know at this point but it's very high priority.

So far the community feedback has been positive except for group meters. Most of the players don't like idea of someone else taking a look at their logs. Group meters will most probably be desired by guild leaders but it seems to be very unlikely that Bioware will actually bring this feature to SWTOR. 

Comment by a player:

Hopefully, the combat log will only show your data, so you can only see your own dps. Personal parsers are beneficial tools. Group meters, do more harm than good.

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