Hello,

First, I know this is no bug or error in DBM, yet I would still like to post this as it might be somewhat interesting to know

If you have an English WoW client, running both Deadly Bossmods and SW Stats (with SW_FixLogStrings enabled), there is a problem with events based on combat log entries like this "Mob's skill hits you for x." The problem here is the "'", since SW_FixLogStrings replaces "Mob's skill" by "Mob 's skill" (a space between the mob's name and the "'").
Unfortunately this leads to DBM missing that combat log entry.

An example of this is Maulgar's arcing smash.

Simplified DBM is looking for the following entry: "High King Maulgar's Arcing Smash" in the combat log, but all it finds is an entry like this: "High King Maulgar 's Arcing Smash was parried." Due to the additional space, I can not announce the arcing smash, since DBM thinks, it never happens (not that I like spamming this to the raid every 10 secs, but I had this enabled for testing purposes )
I do, however, see the arcing smash bars, so I suppose someone with a German client in our raid properly synchs the arcing smash to me.

I will also try to pass this information on to the swstats maintainer. While working around this is not your job, it might be pretty simple to solve this, I guess, by just adding an optional space character to your regex. Of course the simplest way to solve this is to disable SW_FixlogStrings


Furthermore, this leads me to a question about synching in DBM. First, this is the scenario:

I am the maintank on Maulgar and I usually am the raid assistant who announces the DBM warnings to the raid. I have the combat log range set to the maximum.

Due to the problem stated above, my DBM obviously does not find out that the arcing smash has landed, yet somebody else with DBM and the German client (or an English with SW_FixlogStrings disabled) synchs the arcing smash timer to me, so I can see its bar. My DBM does not broadcast this to the raid though, so my guess is that DBM only synchs the timer bars but announcing/broadcasting a raidwarning can not be triggered by an event that is only received through synching.
Is this assumption correct?

If yes, a raid can probably never have one person with an A broadcast all events in fights like Maulgar where the room is so large that even with the combat log range set to the maximum (through the DBM GUI) you do not receice combat log information of the mobs at the opposite corner of the room.

Provided I am right, is there any technical reason, why events received from other DBM clients are not broadcast? If I am totally wrong on this, is there something I am missing?

I would love to hear some feedback on this

Thanks in advance, and thanks for the wonderful addon

Hmmm...SW_FixLogStrings sucks! I'll change the affected strings to "mobname%s?'s skill"

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Due to the problem stated above, my DBM obviously does not find out that the arcing smash has landed, yet somebody else with DBM and the German client (or an English with SW_FixlogStrings disabled) synchs the arcing smash timer to me, so I can see its bar. My DBM does not broadcast this to the raid though, so my guess is that DBM only synchs the timer bars but announcing/broadcasting a raidwarning can not be triggered by an event that is only received through synching.

That's correct only a few boss mods sync their events, the Maulgar mod doesn't support this atm.

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If yes, a raid can probably never have one person with an A broadcast all events in fights like Maulgar where the room is so large that even with the combat log range set to the maximum (through the DBM GUI) you do not receice combat log information of the mobs at the opposite corner of the room.

Blizzard limited the maximum combat log range in the last patch to 30 yards
The combat log range slider in the GUI will be removed in the next version and some boss mods will receive additional sync support for some events.