To stop seeing what people are crafting in your Combat Log in WoW (including TBC-style UIs), you need to turn off “Tradeskills” (or similar) in your chat/combat log settings.

Basic fix in combat log

In most versions (including TBC clients and modern Classic), crafting spam is controlled by the chat tab’s filters. The idea is to tell that specific tab not to show tradeskill messages at all.

Try this:

  1. Hover your mouse over the “Combat Log” tab (or whichever tab is getting the crafting spam).
  1. Right‑click the tab and choose Settings (sometimes called “Filters” or “Chat Settings”).
  1. In the left column, click the category named Other (or similar).
  1. In the options list on the right, uncheck the box labeled Tradeskills (or “Trade skills”).
  1. Click Okay / close the window and test by standing near someone crafting.

Once “Tradeskills” is unchecked for that tab, you should no longer see lines like “Playername creates [Item]” cluttering your combat log.

If you use multiple chat tabs

Many players run with separate tabs (General, Combat Log, Guild, etc.), and each tab has its own filter.

  • Make sure you uncheck Tradeskills on every tab where you don’t want crafting spam.
  • If you do want to see crafting messages somewhere, you can leave Tradeskills enabled only on a “General” or “Trade” tab and disabled on “Combat Log” so your combat data stays clean.

When the option seems missing or bugged

Occasionally players report that crafting still appears in special sub‑views like “What happened to me?” or “My actions” even when other filters are off, which seems to be a bug in some versions.

In that case:

  • Double‑check that you’re changing the settings for the correct tab (hover the tab and confirm it’s highlighted before right‑clicking).
  • If crafting still shows in a special view like “What happened to me,” it may simply not be filterable in that mode in your current client, and you might have to switch back to the normal combat log view when you want a clean record.

Quick recap

  • Right‑click the Combat Log tab → Settings.
  • Go to Other → uncheck Tradeskills.
  • Repeat for any other tab that’s showing crafting spam.

That’s the standard way people stop seeing what others are crafting in their combat log in both modern and TBC‑style WoW clients.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.