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Retired Raider. Creator of Warcraft Logs (), FFLogs (), and ESO Logs ().

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@KihraOfTemerity
Kihra
3 years
Whatever engineer or UI designer added the maps to city aetheryte selection in Endwalker deserves all the attention. Single best QoL change.
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@KihraOfTemerity
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3 years
LOL fflogs has a bug where paladin dps is actually too high. Going to be fixing it today, but RIP paladins.
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Dude in Wowhead comments: "FF has extremely simple buffs that a elementary school kid could calculate" Me: "Ok, guy"
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@KihraOfTemerity
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Got all the clear data updated for the Stormblood ultimates, so here are the final totals of players who have cleared: UCOB: 57810 UWU: 96219 TEA: 79970 DSR: 48351 TOP: 35791
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@KihraOfTemerity
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8 months
The most depressing part about this is not the drama itself, but all the people discovering FFLogs combat replay for the first time.
@mane_tank
Mane Tank
8 months
Redacting your name in the screenshot was clearly a mistake. I never said anything about optimization. I asked the tank to AoE because I died in a single pack pull where they did not AoE to hold aggro. You can be better instead of lying through your teeth.
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@KihraOfTemerity
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2 years
Deploying now, the mechanics panes timelines now show you the exact healing abilities that healed off the specific damage of the timeline segment. See at a glance where a successful clear matching your comp uses their shielding, mit and heals!
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@KihraOfTemerity
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8 months
Have real time rDPS meters working. It is so cool watching a bar like Vulnerability Up grow in real time:
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As stated in previous tweets, our policy regarding RWF kills is to follow the lead of the game developer. Since titles, achievements and loot have been stripped from the characters in UNNAMED_ by SE, we have removed their ranking from our RWF leaderboard for The Omega Protocol.
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@KihraOfTemerity
Kihra
2 years
Naxxramas - 1.53 million unique characters Endwalker = 1.33 million unique characters HAIL TO THE KING: Castle Nathria - 4.58 million characters.
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Don't make me change Ultimate ranks to pass/fail. Behave. :)
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@KihraOfTemerity
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9 months
TIme to just ditch rDPS and Savage/Ultimates and make the front page of FFLogs a fall guys leaderboard.
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3 years
I am excited to announce support for fully realized absorb events in FFLogs, as well as support for viewing all mitigations in the healing done pane of reports. This thread will walk you through all the new features.
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@KihraOfTemerity
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2 years
Now if you really want your mind blown. Naxxramas had more parses put up within 10 days than all of Sepulcher for its entire lifetime across all difficulties. By early next week, Naxxramas will have more parses than every single boss of Endwalker combined.
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@KihraOfTemerity
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8 months
The character page on the new site is packed with features, and I'm still tweaking it, but I wanted to show a piece of it.... the profile section that shows your jobs and gear:
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@KihraOfTemerity
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2 years
Wanted to walk through the various DPS metrics that have come up on FFLogs and explain the pros and cons of each (on the road to trying to come up with something better). (1) Raw DPS - The worst possible option, since you would only rank if you were partnered with a DNC. (cont)
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2 years
This is wrong btw. Not sure why it's getting so much traction.
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If the game just had an official log file, we could switch to using it like we do for WoW, ESO, and SWTOR, and there would be no need for any third party tools for use to show race progress.
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@KihraOfTemerity
Kihra
5 years
FFLogs Update. Today the traffic doubled from last week and achieved Eternal Palace WoW levels of traffic. This is insane. I was not near a computer so the queue kind of got out of control. I've double the number of FFLogs job threads to match WoW's job thread count now.
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@KihraOfTemerity
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4 years
Should I deploy this change to Warcraft Logs?
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We have landed the top 100 talents info for rankings. View the talent trees as a "heat map" and see what talents people are taking at a glance. Team worked hard on this one, I had nothing to do with it! :)
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2 years
In 6.28, we are changing the definition of aDPS. Prior to the introduction of nDPS, aDPS left out the damage others put into your buffs so that it could operate as a bargain basement nDPS for Dancers, etc. (continued)
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Grats to AGB (All G8 Bro) on clearing TOP while using two casters! Pretty cool to see!
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@KihraOfTemerity
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3 years
So you are a WoW player wanting to try out FFXIV raiding. The biggest thing to be prepared for when making this jump is learning about the concept of early resolution of casts and mechanics.
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3 years
Deploying now, a PI column in DPS ranks, and an Innervate column in HPS ranks that just show an icon if the person received the buff as an external (i.e., not self-applied).
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4 years
Combat replay now supports world markers!
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p9s numbers are all wrong, recrawl got interrupted, bear with us. You didn't really all get 99s and 100s, and we'll be crushing all your hopes and dreams shortly.
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Please don't hold me responsible for the mental anguish of being able to quantify exactly how many hours you've wiped to P1.
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@KihraOfTemerity
Kihra
4 months
Well this is an amusing error:
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Kihra
2 months
Ok, fixed the numbers by just doing it myself. 150k characters have cleared an ultimate on FFLogs. Of those, Exactly 5 = 14238 Exactly 4 = 14828 Exactly 3 = 23675 Exactly 2 = 33406 Exactly 1 = 64220
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7 months
One of the testers said that there should be a character page tab for relic weapon tracking, so I coded this up. Pretty happy with it.
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This Grummz guy really is the biggest dumbass on Twitter.
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Kihra
2 years
Ok ok ok. Welcome to Lost Ark Logs .com, where everybody gets a 100. Good job, everybody! You're all special!
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Kihra
2 years
I promise a better talents UI is coming. You do not have to hyperventilate into my DMs every single day. We know, we know, we know!
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This has never come up in FFLogs progress before, but we have a clear policy on progression kills, which is that we adhere to what the creators of the game decide. (cont.)
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@KihraOfTemerity
Kihra
6 years
Every time someone asks "Will you support WoW Classic logging?" I'm like, "Why should I? Don't you want an authentic vanilla experience?" :) :) :)
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Kihra
3 years
This is the best bug in the history of WCL. So every week this guild has been uploading Kaelthas kills in TBC Classic, and every week the fight turned into "Boar Normal".... A player in their raid is named Boar. He was - every week - becoming the boss of the fight.
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@KihraOfTemerity
Kihra
2 years
LOL been asked like 10 times already when lostarklogs is happening. It has no combat log, friends. It's not happening. :)
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2 years
Dragonsong's Reprise now has per phase statistics!
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2 months
Alts on tomestone will now show their main's progress if it's better. An icon will show that indicates the progress comes from another character owned by the same player. The tooltip will indicate if the other character that earned the achievement first is a main or an alt.
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4 months
You can tell everyone needs new content in FFXIV by how inane all the discourse on Twitter and Reddit has gotten.
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Kihra
8 months
FF meters now have a dps type selector thanks to @WarcraftYax who is currently in disguise as FFYax. Look at me sucking on Garuda. Bottom of the barrel dragoon busy watching the meters in real time instead of doing damage.
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2 years
A thread. Parsing becoming problematic can occur for two reasons: (1) As a result of people grouping together without being like-minded in their goals. When a group contains people who just want to clear and people who want to do dumb things to parse, you get into trouble.
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Kihra
3 years
Too soon?
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Kihra
5 years
New policy. If you DDOS my Web site to the point where I have to blacklist your IPs, then I'm also permabanning all your characters and wiping out all their ranks.
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@KihraOfTemerity
Kihra
2 years
TLDR: Classic WoW, Retail WoW and FF all have an insane number of people raiding in them lol.
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Kihra
8 months
The core philosophy of the new site is basically to help you look up information, especially information that has been hard to find. Examples: (1) Go to an encounter like Kokytos and sort by fastest clears, first clears, latest pulls, etc. and see all the activity:
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Legitimize logging as a core feature rather than lumping it in with third party tools that actually are hacks.
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@KihraOfTemerity
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4 years
So yesterday was a record traffic day for Retail, 342,3k users. Classic had 188.7k, so the site handled 531k users yesterday! The most I've ever had to handle before this was 308k for BFA on the same day in BFA's history.
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Kihra
5 months
My biggest takeaway from watching y'all upload your images is that the % of straight Warriors of Light is near-zero.
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Kihra
11 months
People keep asking for this data, so here it is, clear rates (at least according to logs) for the latest tier of Savage as of Sep 8:
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Kihra
8 months
Giving the rDPS buffs a unique color so it is easy to see their bars:
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Kihra
4 years
@tettles1 Number one planned feature for WCL for 2021 is guild recruitment.
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17 days
Kind of hilarious to me that on like every job, 1% of people are going into EX1 with 670ish ilvl gear having somehow not even bought the free 690 gear.
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Kihra
2 years
My life has literally been 100x better just banning Classic people from WCL Discord aggressively if they step out of line. Just so many awful people in that community sadly.
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Feel like TOP needs a support group. "Hi, my name is <insert your name here>, and I've wiped for 27 hours and 57 minutes in P1."
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FFXVI is so much like FFXIV lol. The highs are great and epic, amazing boss battles, and then you have to deliver 3 bowls of soup to someone or pick up clumps of dirt.
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3 years
TBC Classic WCL had its highest traffic day yesterday (Thursday, Sep 16), beating out even the highest traffic day of Vanilla Classic WCL.
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Kihra
4 years
This is the first time I've managed to handle the start of an expansion with full uptime and no loss of responsiveness. It's champagne time.
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2 years
Deploying now, from your user settings you can pick which of the 3 possible dps metrics you would like to be your sitewide default: rDPS, aDPS or nDPS.
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The most fascinating part about this fight to me is how hard it is for groups to do P1 consistently.
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2 years
We're going to be doing a RWF page for the Ultimate similar to WoW but broken down by phase. Make sure you have your statics set up on FFLogs, competition mode should be flipped on (when you begin racing) in your guild settings, and you should get your guild logos attached also.
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Today's Omega Protocol present... for encounters split by phase, the total number of wipes in each phase and total time spent on those wipes will now be shown. Use with multi-report analysis to quickly see your phase time spent breakdown!
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2 years
Boy that FFLogs team has really got this externals thing figured out. They're way smarter than the morons who do Warcraft Logs. We should just get them to solve this whole externals problem.
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Due to a hilarious sequence of events, FFLogs DB upgrade took out Warcraft Logs. I appreciate that these two dbs just wanted to get to know each other better, but this is one friendship that is not allowed.
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2 years
If I were to do a rDPS vs nDPS poll, I suspect people would all vote for nDPS to be the default. The community just consistently votes to remove all aspects of team play from parsing, so that they can join any PF group, etc., and still parse.
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5 years
If you don't want boss names spoiled by FFLogs, how about you don't visit the Web site before doing the bosses? I mean, come on.
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Kihra
4 years
Lots of people asking about Power Infusion. I'm still mulling over options for what to do but am aware that it's your number one issue.
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Kihra
4 years
382.4k users for Shadowlands WCL yesterday (a new record). 24% higher than the highest traffic day in BFA and 77% higher than the highest traffic day in Legion.
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Kihra
3 years
Excited to unveil Recruitment search today. Yax has been working hard on this. From the front page, right under your dashboard, you will see a new Recruitment entry point:
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For example, if Blizzard were to strip the title/achievement/loot from a guild and remove them from the Hall of Fame leaderboard, we would also remove the progress rank. If the maker of the game decides to honor the kill and leave it in place, then so do we.
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@KihraOfTemerity
Kihra
3 years
Today is my 24th wedding anniversary. I'm old.
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Kihra
2 years
This is insane. 60% of Classic Warcraft players are from China (and that's even a conservative estimate). Losing that entire player base boggles my mind.
@Wowhead
Wowhead💙
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Blizzard Entertainment has announced that it will be suspending services in China on January 23, 2023, due to their current licensing agreement expiring with NetEase.
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Site buckled under RWF traffic spike (the RWF page currently has more concurrent viewers than all previous races across both Warcraft Logs and FF Logs), but has scaled up and is ok now.
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5 years
WIP
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4 years
The amount of preparation that has gone into handling Nathria + Naxxramas traffic at the same time has been immense. I am hoping my servers (especially the database) will be able to withstand the onslaught. The database is extremely powerful (r5.12xlarge) so fingers crossed.
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3 years
We've hired two new Full Stack Developers, bringing the RPGLogs team up to 5 people! I am excited to see what we can accomplish with this additional engineering bandwidth. We have people on board now with both WoW and FFXIV as their primary MMOs as well, so good coverage.
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5 years
Rankings for Onyxia and Molten Core have been open for a full day, but none of you slackers have killed them yet. God, you're all so lazy.
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Kihra
4 years
Stay classy, Limit.
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Kihra
7 months
New site update: Implemented the ability to click through every job with a custom banner image defined. Just a fun way to easily see which jobs the person loved enough to customize images for. :)
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4 years
Just so people are aware (I'm not going to link to it), the site that purports to show SL beta DPS rankings is scraping Castle Nathria logs from WCL and using wipes. It's a complete clickbait page designed to just get ad revenue. Nothing on it is accurate, so don't fall for it.
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The best way I could describe the 6.1-6.4 story quest is "phoned in".... I can't believe it just stalled out and didn't resolve anything again. This is a minor trial story that got blown up to to be the MSQ story when it could have moved much faster and not taken 5 patches.
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Of the 64,220 characters that have cleared exactly one ultimate, 30,987 of them are UWU, and 16,329 are TEA.
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Kihra
3 years
I AM LOGS
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Kihra
2 years
Community was in favor of doing this by like 90% to 10%, so in 6.2, the HPS rankings will include mitigations (meaning HPS will be healing + absorbs + damage prevented by damage-reducing abilities).
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@KihraOfTemerity
Kihra
8 months
I haven't implemented it yet, but I also plan to let you import loadouts from etro and then track your progress towards completion of the loadout. The plan is to provide statics a way to do loot planning/tracking on the site without needing to maintain spreadsheets.
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Kihra
4 years
Combat Replay now supports the display of unit facing! See exactly which direction someone is facing when a cast goes off. Facing will display for the currently selected unit. This feature is supported for World of Warcraft (Retail and Classic), FFXIV and Elder Scrolls Online
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8 months
Fflogs being ddosed on thanksgiving…. Someone needs to get a life
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Kihra
3 years
Going to just start doing shots every time somebody asks me about Power Infusion.
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@KihraOfTemerity
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2 years
It's really interesting seeing how different game communities (Retail, Classic, FF) react to "interfering with parsing" .... because the communities of the games are wildly different in their opinions about what should be done. (cont.)
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@KihraOfTemerity
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Should block and armor show up in mitigations as well? We are capable of computing all that, and it would allow us to also give credit to block and armor boosting abilities.
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3 years
Y'all want some unit frames in your events view? Of course you do! (Deploying now.)
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Kihra
3 years
The Buffs column now tracks the total applications of external buffs and breaks them down for you in a handy tooltip. This is similar to how the corruption UI worked in BFA.
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@KihraOfTemerity
Kihra
2 years
Today's my 50th birthday.
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Kihra
5 years
Finished Shadowbringers main story quest. Just wonderful. I'd rank it above Heavensward and Stormblood, possibly the best storytelling I've seen in an MMO.
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@KihraOfTemerity
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So one of the features for this new site I've been working on is some encounter-related statistics like clear rates. You've seen me post that info a few times, but it updates every day and can be filtered to specific patches. For example here's Kokytos:
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Kihra
4 years
I have taken action against a number of FFLogs accounts in the CN region for log hacking. Reminder that hacking logs results in a total scorched earth punishment. Everything you've ever done, including your legitimate logs, will be blacklisted and removed.
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2 years
Going to just make a lost ark logs site with a counter on it that increments any time someone asks me to support lost ark logs.
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FFLogs does actually refresh character pages from time to time. It's amusing to see people get all paranoid and think a human being is stalking their page. Sorry, it's just FFLogs itself much of the time. :)
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