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Quote from Ackis »

What I've been doing to test mods that I'm playing with is:

Have a clean WoW installation that I don't play on (ie: no add-ons, etc). Yes it wastes 4 gigs on your HD but meh.
Copy the modified add-on with embedded libs to that installation.
Run it and see what happens.

It won't catch everything but it helps for library changes.

Oh, i dont even do that, I simply run a "modclean" bash script that .tar.bz2's my wtf and addons folders, then deletes them.. and a "modrestore" script that does the reverse. I simply run the script, install my embedded addon, test it, remove it, and run the other script. voila, back to normal.. and I save my precious 4G hd space, which with a 60GB HD on this laptop, is at quite a premium. :)

I find the simplest solution to addon testing is simply to rename Interface/AddOns and WTF/Account. During normal play I have AddOns and AddOns.test, and Account and Account.test. During testing I have AddOns.play and AddOns, and Account.play and Account. Doesn't require an extra WoW installation, or waste time and cause disk fragmentation by compressing, deleting, uncompressing, and writing repeatedly. :P

Quote from Skylinee »

Enchants are no longer taken into consideration in item stat summary. Is there an option to enable it, or is it currently broken?

There is a clearly labeled option in the Stat Summary section entitled "Ignore Enchants". If it is checked, RatingBuster will ignore enchants when presenting the stat summary. I find this extremely useful, as it means that when comparing a new item, I don't have to manually calculate what would be added by putting the same enchant on the new item. Since you can put the same enchant on any item of a given slot, it's not really relevant to item comparisons. And since enchants are generally simple additions to one or two stats, if you really need to know the full total on a given enchanted item, it's not hard to go "okay, 42 spell damage from stats and gems + 30 spell damage from enchant = 72 spell damage".

Quote from Phanx »

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cause disk fragmentation by compressing, deleting, uncompressing, and writing repeatedly. :P
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Well thats great if you dont have a smart filesystem that defrags on the fly. But I use a Mac, and any file under 20megs, gets defragged as the system accesses the file. :) so while the archive may be fragmented, the files wont be. hehe

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edit: in fact, I have occassionally run some disk defragment utility on my HD. I'll go 3 or 4 months and still only have 0.02% fragmentation, 300k+ files, and maybe 10-15 files are fragmented. Usually things like movies, large archives, and occassionally, a few smaller system-related files that can't be moved while the OS is running off that drive (when I defrag, I do it by booting off a DVD I created for diag/repair/etc) But I only do it as a "oh yea, I should run a full checkup tonight" and boot off the cd, start my scripts and let em run until they finish, reboot the system, and by the time I need to use the machine, its all right there waiting, and nice and fresh.) :)

Quote from Ackis »

Meh, there was a point last week when I was trying to get other locals on the enUS client where I had 5 wow installations on my PC. :P

1TB of space = win (have 700 gigs on a second computer that I don't use also.)

And me having a second installation allows me to keep playing my main toon while I screw around with the mod on a secondary account.

1terabyte? I only have 1 thing to say *extends middle finger*
you.. suck..
*jealous*

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Hi,

why is RB showing spellstats in statssummary on my enchantment schaman ? I disabled it, but it displayed it anayway...

reagards, Sha

I love this addon and I've been using it for awhile now. I do have one question though --

Is it intentional that RatingBuster doesn't recognize the spell damage on Frozen Shadoweave items? For example, if I'm comparing an item with +40 spell damage with say Frozen Shadoweave Boots, which gives +57 spell damage, it will show on the Frozen Shadoweave Boots tooltip that it is a -40 spell damage decrease and not the actual bonus of +17 spell damage.

I'm not sure if this happens on other crafted soulbound items, but it does happen (at least for me) on the Frozen Shadoweave items.

Quote from Jstarr »

I love this addon and I've been using it for awhile now. I do have one question though --

Is it intentional that RatingBuster doesn't recognize the spell damage on Frozen Shadoweave items? For example, if I'm comparing an item with +40 spell damage with say Frozen Shadoweave Boots, which gives +57 spell damage, it will show on the Frozen Shadoweave Boots tooltip that it is a -40 spell damage decrease and not the actual bonus of +17 spell damage.

I'm not sure if this happens on other crafted soulbound items, but it does happen (at least for me) on the Frozen Shadoweave items.

As has been said bonus spell damage is not the same as a specific school of magic. The best way to keep yourself straight or at least a little less confused is to add either frost or shadow info to the tooltip.

@Anaral and Nirek, thanks for the info. I'll turn the feature on for the additional tooltip notes.

Any chance of RB getting DrDamage as an optional dependancy and feeding the change in stats to DD and display what the change in DPS would be for that item?

Currently, agi is bugged in the Stat Summary window for hunters. It only shows as giving us crit, but it should give us 1 RAP per 1 agi aswell.

I believe you need to enable the "Agi -> RAP" option in the configuration. Such simple calculations are not enabled by default; Str -> AP is another example.

the German client will Spellhaste ignored (not shown)

Somebody asked on world of raids forum whether or not an addon existed that could filter the +dmg of all +healing spells.

+81 healing and 23 damage -> +81 healing on the tooltip.

Is this already implemented in rating buster, or if not, is it something that can be done?

Thanks.

Edited to remove incorrect information. >_>