A rather basic question: How does one parse on the PTS?

FrancisCrawford

When I parse on live, it's always using Combat Metrics.

But I want to check something out on the PTS, and when I simply enable Combat Metrics, it's uselessly buggy.

So I'd appreciate some advice either as to how to make add-ons work on the PTS, or some in-game way of parsing that doesn't rely on them.

Thanks!!

Soarora

I use combat metrics on PTS too, maybe try updating your PTS version? The only issues I run into are the color scheme being a bit weird and some buttons are visually missing which is not a problem because they are actually there.

Ghaleb

I am using combat metrics as well and it works fine for me. Share Soarora’s suggestion to update combat metrics in your PTS folder.

Varana

You can also log the fight and upload it to esologs.

But yeah, the live game and the PTS have separate addon folders. To stay up to date, you need to update the PTS addons separately (best by just copying the CMX folder over from live).

Four_Fingers

I use Minion to update both.

FrancisCrawford

Thanks!

My first try was to rename the AddOns folder in my PTS subdirectory and copy over the one from Live. That isn't quite working, as there are lots of dependencies on missing libraries. I'll look for better ideas.

One option, of course, would be to try to nuke all the add-ons there are use Minion to reinstall them from scratch.

A complication is that I'd like the whole process to be robust against wipes and re-copies, including as ZoS goes back and forth between copies from the PC/NA and PC/EU servers.