Damage of a spell, read it from memory?

[jim87]

Hello!

As you should probably know, every spell, ability or whatever attack produce a base damage, reduced by enemy resistances and increased by critical attacks. Is there a way to know the base damage, that is the one written in the tooltip?

For example WowHead says, at level 85, it produces around 337 shadow damage, while my shadow priest does something like 10 times that damage.

As formulas, if known, are not pefect and even if I don't need the perfection, I think the best way is to get this information directly from the client...

...so, is there any API for this?

Thanks!

 

[CodenameG]

WoWSpell.SpellEffect2.MiscValueA

if you look, http://www.wowhead.com/spell=116/frostbolt
see under effect 2, effect 2 applys damage, so im like 80% sure at least for frostbolt you can find that information at THAT location, however this will change for each spell, since they are all different.

 

[jim87]

That's not the direct damage you're doing, that one is:

1. reduce movement (-40%)
2. do damage: 18-20 (type: frost)
3. apply aura: healing reduced

I seriously doubt Frostbolt at level 85 does only 20 damage?

SW: D only applies damage ( Shadow Word: Death - Spell - World of Warcraft ), but we need to investigate more about what are the modifiers.

EDIT: opened a thread here: http://www.thebuddyforum.com/honorb...-]-shadow-priest-burst-fast-farming-help.html