Before we receive any character data, temporary buffs and spells are stripped from the data. We don't have any way of saying what pet you currently have out, what mount you are on or what buffs the character has. |
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Yeah, that was a bug that has long been fixed. |
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I miss-spoke, allow me to clarify what I meant. Yes, we did display some of the buffs on the character during log out. Hence, if you were in a raid and had "Power Word: Fortitude", your HP would be inflated. This lead to a number of quirks with having to strip some things manually and understand how spell effects influenced stats and attributes. There were a number of bugs that resulted from having to 'debuff' characters, which lead to the decision to remove that feature. Alas, we are starting to stray from thread's topic. |
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It is unlikely that we'll ever expose online presence information, mostly for technical reasons. We have been exploring the idea of displaying the zone that you were in when you logged out though. |
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Let us not get whipped up into a frenzy over something that isn't planned. Take comfort in knowing that if we were to do that feature, and we currently are not, it would be a ways away given the backlog of other more important features to implement. |