I agree short and sweet, can't stand it when group window starts filling up with 3 and 4 line cutsie messages. I agree some are fun ONCE. Let's say that once per hour you put a cutesy message out. I can live with that, and you can roleplay. Any more and I want to yell STFU (but don't because I am not that way).
My group window is tells, guild, group, my spell results, and raid, all stuff I really need to read, so quit making me read garbage with every pull.
I like to know when a mob is ready to be hit (Assist me will do-especially if ma is different than puller), when it's slowed, maybe maloed, when a heal is coming, mezzes, short version of all please. Sometimes I give a quick notice of group buffs so puller doesn't run off.
And except for heals, I do not want to know when you attempt a spell. Example: One slow announcement per mob when it actually really landed, or it looks dumb.
Quote:
Cherick tells the group, Slow
That message is good, if there is only one mob (or if all mobs are named the same). If not you need the mob name in there, so they know when they break mez which are already slowed. Still, I prefer that to a 3 line cutsie. %T is slowed.