Beta version RELEASED!
Please see Current Status section below!!
DrDamage displays the calculated, average damage or healing of abilities with talents, gear and buffs included on your actionbar buttons.
The addon will also add various information to the default tooltips in your spellbook and on the actionbar.
Slash Commands:
/drdmg or /drdamage
Functionality:
- Supports all classes, excluding Death Knights
- Actionbar addons supported: Default, Bartender 4, Dominos, Macaroon, Nurfed AB, FlexBar2 and IPopBar.
- Places text with the metric of your choosing on the actionbar buttons
- Damage and healing statistics are placed into your tooltips. This includes for example critical hit chance, spell damage and damage coefficients, averages, DPS, DPSC (damage per seconds cast), damage until OOM and more!
- Your own buffs and your target's debuffs are taken into account
- Allows manual modification of the essential base stats used to calculate. For example you can test how much +100 spellpower would increase your damage or healing output.
FAQ:
- Are you planning to make a user interface for configuration?
- DrDamage has a FuBar plugin capability for easy configuration. DeuceCommander works as well.
- Can I donate?
- If you wish. PayPal: gagorian (at) gmail.com
Current status:
1.6.0b has been released. It is early beta-quality. I believe that most of the mod-breaking bugs have been squashed, however, please note that many damage values are incorrect. I have attempted to get these values relatively close, but it will take extensive testing to get perfectly accurate values.
Known issues:
- Certain spells new to WoW 3.0 display no damage information (eg. Explosive shot), because they have complicated calculations that need complicated coding solutions. These few spells will be implemented eventually.
- Spells may display slightly low values after level 70. This is due to the fact that many spells slowly increase in base damage as you level, and these values need to be found through experimentation. For spell ranks close to and beyond level 70 (around level 64 and up) these values are either unknown or inaccurate, and so are simply assumed to be 0 for now. This generally doesn't cause more than a 3% error.
- Some talents which increase damage based on the target's health percentage aren't implemented properly, due to the way DrDamage currently updates its values. This will hopefully be fixed in the future.
- In WoW 3.0 several DoT spells were given the ability to crit (eg. Mindflay). Due to the way in which DrDamage currently calculates DoTs, it will not calculate crits for these DoTs. This will be implemented soon.
- Due to the unique nature of Paladin abilities, there are likely to be strange issues with DrDamage. Seal of Vengeance/Corruption for example lists total damage during the 2 minutes, assuming a melee swing as often as possible. Thus, the damage listed will be large. Seal of the Martyr/Blood, on the other hand, simply lists the damage of a single application of its DoT, and thus the damage listed is relatively small. I realize this makes it difficult to determine which of the two seals is better to use at any given moment. I plan to standardize paladins eventually.
Please report any other issues you come across, preferably by submitting a ticket to wowace:
http://www.wowace.com/projects/dr-damage/
- Put your cursor over the tickets menu at the top and select "Post a ticket"
(You need to have a wowace account and login first)
Bug reports can be posted in the comments here, but they may be missed!
When submitting a bug report:
- I need the error itself if there is one.
- I need to know which Action Bar mod you use.
- I need to know your class, race and level.
- If the issue is an accuracy issue, please try to include detailed damage/heal numbers of what DrDamage claims and what you're actually seeing.
- It helps a LOT if I know your talent build. A link to your talent build, or to your armory profile will be a LOT of help.
Please note that bug reports that simply include the error, can be difficult to interpret, making it very hard to locate the actual issue. Remember, the more information you give, the easier it is for me to find the issue and resolve it!
Donations:
I've received questions about if it's possible to donate. Donations are appreciated and the money goes to paying for my account which I only use to develop DrDamage (and hopefully eventually buy wotlk) as I've quit the game.
My PayPal account is gagorian (at) gmail.com
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...