Welcome to the Warcraft Records! This page will help you become familiar with the website and all of its features. You will need an account to upload logs to the site, so if you plan to upload logs, create an account first. You need a valid email address as we verify it via an activation email.
Battle.net Integration
After you’ve signed up for Warcraft Logs, you can integrate your account with Battle.net. This gives your characters and guilds access to WCL. You can go to your user settings to integrate with Battle.net.
What is a combat log?
A combat log is a file created by the game that contains a series of events. These events contain information such as what abilities your team used, what damage they did and to whom, and what healing was received.
The idea behind the combat log is quite simple: record what happened so that it can be submitted to the website for analysis.
Enabling the Combat Log
Before logging into World of Warcraft, you must ensure that the Advanced Combat Log is enabled. enabled. activated. This is required for registrations to be accepted on the site. Go to the Network panel of in-game system preferences.
Advanced combat logging must be enabled before any logging is done!
To To enable combat logging in World of Warcraft, just go to your chat window and type /combatlog. That’s all you have to do! Everything you, players, and enemies around you do will now be written to a file called WoWCombatLog.txt. This file can be found in the Logs subdirectory of your WoW installation. When you’re done, you can just exit the game or type /combatlog again to turn off logging.
I’ve turned on logging and am hitting a dummy target, but nothing is being written to that file! What happens?
Outside of raids, the combat log file is only written after a certain number of events have been generated. This means that the update can be very slow if you are only doing solo content in the world.
Are there plugins to help me with the combat log?
Yes. You can use plugins like Loggerhead, DBM, or Ask Mr. Robot to have logging automatically turn on in raids and turn off when you leave. However, it is very important that when using Warcraft logs you record the entire raid. DBM’s auto-register feature, for example, only registers bosses, and this will cause it to not register pet summons. This can lead to issues where pets won’t connect with owners.
If possible, we always recommend recording the entire night of the raid. Do not leave garbage or non-combat events outside of the log.
Log Uploading
To upload logs to the website, use a client application. This application can be obtained here. If you have any problems launching or installing the application, we recommend that you go to the forums for help, as it is likely that someone else has encountered the same problem and can help.
Two types of logging
There are two ways to login. The first is to load the full log file after the raid ends. The second way is to do what we call live logging. In this model, the client monitors the log file and whenever it sees new events added to the end of the file, it sends those events to the website. The live log mode is great for when you want to study the deletes right after they happened to see what went wrong.
Where do the logs go?
You have two options on where to upload your logs. Each Warcraft Logs user gets a personal log slot just for them, so you can always upload your logs there without having to join a guild.
The second option for uploading logs is to upload your logs to the area of your guild. . When you do this, everyone in the guild will be able to see the logs. Think of it as a shared space for your guild’s official raids.
Before you can upload logs to a guild, you must first join the guild. If the guild does not exist, you can also create a guild.
Guilds
[Note: this page is under construction].