Thread: Efficiency question (\aPC says|You say) to the raid

Is there a more efficient way to do this regex?

(\\aPC \d+ [^:]+:[^\\]+\\/a says|You say) to the raid party, "START TIMER"

I have a question somewhat related to this. I was working on building a trigger for Arch-Magistor Modrfrost, specifically something along the lines of his detriment causing damage to a raid member. I'm not at home in front of my PC, but it was something to the effect of Arch-Magistor Modrfrost's Ghastly Pallor hits Chanson for 1,111 damage. The trigger I created was something along the lines of
Arch-Magistor Modrfrost's Ghastly Pallor (?:critically hits|hits) (?<player>.+?) for.*
I wasn't really interested in how much they were damaged for, just that they were damaged so we knew who to use the looted items on. My question arises around me testing after we moved on to another mob and i would /say that same line and it would set off the trigger. So even though the log line doesn't start with Arch-Magistor, it was still getting picked up in the log line; this makes me think it isn't very efficient if every line that doesn't start with Arch-Magistor is not failing right away. Is this because of the .* at the end? If so, would replacing the ".*" with "\d damage\." fix it so it isn't check lines that don't start with Arch-Magistor?
After a little more research I found that I could also start my trigger as ^Arch-Magistor..... and with the ^ it expects the beginning of the line to be Arch-Magistor. Would that be more efficient?