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Tested on the FUN server to the date 09.10.2014

Spell name: http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=60103/lava-lash

 

How it is bugged: The ability does approximately 10% less damage than it should, from a last test (see below) it's clear that http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=77223 isn't scaling properly.

 

How it should work: As the tooltip says, 300% off-hand weapon damage, that's increased by 40% thanks to Flametongue Weapon, by Enhancement mastery http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=77223, by 100% thanks to 5 stacks of Searing Flames and finally by 7% for Flametongue Weapon.

 

Priority 10/10, as it's the main source of damage for enhancement shamans, alongside http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=117014/elemental-blast#comments, when outside burst.

 

Calculation and proof:

 

Average weapon damage with http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=102600/prideful-gladiators-cleaver: 5'480.8 x 2.6= 14'250.08

 

DPS (calculated with AP): 35'023/14= 2'501.642

 

Normalization (http://www.wowwiki.com/Normalization): 2'501.642 x 2.4= 6'003.94

 

Lava Lash formula application (off-hand weapon damage penalty is 50%): ((6'003.94 + 14'250.08)x3)/2= 30'381.031

 

Damage modifiers application:

Flametongue Weapon -> 30'381.031 x 1.4= 42'533.442

http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=77223 -> 42'533.442 x 1.555= 66'139.5

5 stacks of Searing Flames -> 66'139.5 x 2= 132'279.004

7% bonus of Flametongue Weapon -> 132'279.004 x 1.07= 141'538.534

 

Average Lava Lash damage calculated: 141'538

Average Lava Lash damage tested: 126'199

Damage difference= 10.83%

Testing screens:

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Additionally, I tested another time out of curiosity, to check http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=77223 scaling and I found out that's there is something wrong, as you can see in this screen:

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With 66% mastery (and a bit more AP than before), the average damage of http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=60103/lava-lash doesn't increase for the right amount, that is ~10%.

In fact the damage increase is for about 3%, instead of 10%!

 

Ps: Some spells haven't the link to Wowhead as in the new expansion Warlords of Draenor they have been deleted from the game.

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No, you are wrong man, read the tooltip carefully: it says " increasing magical damage done" and Fire is a magic school.

Lava lash benefits from the 7% bonus since Cataclysm.

 

Then, I'm not saying with 100% security the bonus is bugged, but I wrote it as a possibility.

The sources you listed are discussing about Lava Lash not being affected by Unleash Flame 30% bonus damage, that's a completely different thing.^^

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If Lava Lash somehow benefits from 7% bonus it would had to be a spell, and thus SHOULD benefit from Unleash Flame aswell, and it doesn't. That means it is ability - can be parry/dodged/blocked can not be resisted, also benefits from melee hit rating rather then spell hit rating. And lava lash doesn't benefits from 7% Flametognue Weapon enchant in cataclysm.
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If Lava Lash somehow benefits from 7% bonus it would had to be a spell, and thus SHOULD benefit from Unleash Flame aswell, and it doesn't. That means it is ability - can be parry/dodged/blocked can not be resisted, also benefits from melee hit rating rather then spell hit rating. And lava lash doesn't benefits from 7% Flametognue Weapon enchant in cataclysm.

 

It doesn't matter if it's a spell or not... Where are you reading "spell" in the Flametongue Weapon tooltip? Lava Lash benefits from the 7% simply because it does magical (fire) damage.

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Increases magical damage done by X is enough. And as I said earlier it does violent common sense, Lava Lash damage was always reducted by enemy armor even tho tooltip says Fire damage.

It incredibly matters if it's a spell or not.

Can't argue like this anymore wowiki explains a lot to me, so does the unleash topic from blizzard forum.

 

It works exactly like DK's abilities not spells.

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Increases magical damage done by X is enough. And as I said earlier it does violent common sense, Lava Lash damage was always reducted by enemy armor even tho tooltip says Fire damage.

It incredibly matters if it's a spell or not.

Can't argue like this anymore wowiki explains a lot to me, so does the unleash topic from blizzard forum.

 

It works exactly like DK's abilities not spells.

 

 

 

 

no... Lava Lash bypasses armor completely...

As for the 7% bonus read here http://forums.elitistjerks.com/topic/125327-enhancement-43-ptr-spellpower-deprived/page-2

Now please let's move on.

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lava lash damage is not normalized otherwise i would be using a dagger. As for your tests i think u are right for lava lash dmg being incorrect an easy way to test is with calculating the absolute minimum dmg it can do, for example, my off hand hits from 7984 to 12260 which means min and max for lava lash is 7984*3*1.4*1.47(mastery)*1.07*2 (searing flames) and 12260*3*1.4*1.47(mastery)*1.07*2 (searing flames) = 105,487 to 161,983. since my lava lash is hitting 95k to 140k on dummy on the x100 server you know something is up. The modifiers for lava lash being mastery, flametongue 7% bonus, flametongues 40% off hand bonus and searing flames.
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lava lash damage is not normalized otherwise i would be using a dagger. As for your tests i think u are right for lava lash dmg being incorrect an easy way to test is with calculating the absolute minimum dmg it can do, for example, my off hand hits from 7984 to 12260 which means min and max for lava lash is 7984*3*1.4*1.47(mastery)*1.07*2 (searing flames) and 12260*3*1.4*1.47(mastery)*1.07*2 (searing flames) = 105,487 to 161,983. since my lava lash is hitting 95k to 140k on dummy on the x100 server you know something is up. The modifiers for lava lash being mastery, flametongue 7% bonus, flametongues 40% off hand bonus and searing flames.

 

Lava lash damage is normalized:http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=60103/lava-lash (see below effect #3) as are Mortal Strike, Overpower, Ambush, Backstab, etc.

You wouldn't want to use daggers because otherwise the multiplier would be 1.7, instead of 2.4 AND the average weapon damage would be a lot smaller than with a slow one-handed weapon.

 

However, try to test with a mastery increase and post here your results. According to my last test (last screen) http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=77223 isn't scaling properly, at least for http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=60103. I would advice you to do a test session without buffs, then one with http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=76083 and http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=81414.

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sry for posting here but maybe some one will make new thread.So can anyone report Fire elemental totem bug,fire elemental doesn't move and stays in 1 place,earth element is working fine tho.Thx in advance :)

 

It was working but something happned on 5.4.7. And the problem is only that is not moving if someone stays near him it attacks. It will be great to fix it.

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Just got a low damage offhand weapon. My offhand damage normalized to 2,246 - 2,251. I made my calculations using 2,249. Lava Lash was actually doing a bit more damage than it should for a while. I tested every single step of the following equation:

 

2,249 * 1.4844 (Mastery) * 1.4 (Flametongue) * 1.07 (Flametongue again) * 1.3 (Unleash Elements). The damage by then should've been pretty much a fixed 19,504. However, I hit the dummy for 21,262.

 

The last step was getting 5 stacks of Searing Flames. Should've gotten 19,504 * 2 = 39,007 damage. Instead I did 36,724.

 

So I guess that's not really a Lava Lash bug but more of a Searing Flames one... Yet.. still a really really minor bug. The damage difference is barely 6%.

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Just got a low damage offhand weapon. My offhand damage normalized to 2,246 - 2,251. I made my calculations using 2,249. Lava Lash was actually doing a bit more damage than it should for a while. I tested every single step of the following equation:

 

2,249 * 1.4844 (Mastery) * 1.4 (Flametongue) * 1.07 (Flametongue again) * 1.3 (Unleash Elements). The damage by then should've been pretty much a fixed 19,504. However, I hit the dummy for 21,262.

 

The last step was getting 5 stacks of Searing Flames. Should've gotten 19,504 * 2 = 39,007 damage. Instead I did 36,724.

 

So I guess that's not really a Lava Lash bug but more of a Searing Flames one... Yet.. still a really really minor bug. The damage difference is barely 6%.

 

NO,tests must be done with a high item level weapon, as here low damaging weps act in a strange way. For example if you try to test Windfury Weapon out with a low item level weapon it seems to work, while in fact with a level 90 weapon it doesn't. You aren't going around at level 90 with level 10 weapons, so...

The only difference between a low and a high damaging wep is the time needed to test it out, so I don't see where the problems lies.

 

In reality the damage lost is much higher than your 6% or my 10%, as if you try to raise you mastery the spell won't scale properly.

In 5.4 Lava Lash should of be the hardest hitting ability outside burst after Elemental Blast, here it seems a joke though.

In fact I'm critting 70k LL with a 536 Ilvl enha with 60% mastery, reaching 100-110k only with trinkets and Elemental Blast procs (and maybe an additional 10% mastery from Bg buffs).

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No, tests with low ilvl weapons are just fine.. I've tested a lot of things with both low ilvl items and high ilvl items and the results aren't different at all. Like you said, though, low ilvl weapons save a lot of time so they are preferable.

 

Obviously you are doing something wrong cause on my 509 ilvl shaman I just hit the dummy for 440k. And I don't have either a cloak, nor a gloves enchant. I have no flask and buffs as well. My Elemental Blast proc isn't Mastery either.

 

440k is 130k in PvP (considering my low PvP Power). I could only imagine hitting for 200k+ (in PvP), hell even 300k, with your gear, proper enchants, buffs and Elemental Blast mastery proc.

 

Proof (sorry for my messy UI):

 

http://s16.postimg.org/6xvvb4ask/Wo_WScrn_Shot_011915_022300.jpg

 

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In fact, I just calculated, that with my off-hand damage considering the Agility from Elemental Blast (no Mastery procs), Bloody Dancing Steel enchant and the proc trinket my Lava Lash crits should average to 447,731 damage. On the screenshot I hit for 439,715. I'd say that the difference is barely noticable. In PvP, the damage difference would be 2361 damage, lol.

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Just got a low damage offhand weapon. My offhand damage normalized to 2,246 - 2,251. I made my calculations using 2,249. Lava Lash was actually doing a bit more damage than it should for a while. I tested every single step of the following equation:

 

2,249 * 1.4844 (Mastery) * 1.4 (Flametongue) * 1.07 (Flametongue again) * 1.3 (Unleash Elements).

 

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Unleash Elements increas lava lash dmg ?you got smth wrong here... it works only for spell, not physical attack

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Unleash Elements increas lava lash dmg ?you got smth wrong here... it works only for spell, not physical attack

Dude... Unleash Elements increases Lava Lash's damage. It didn't increase it in Cata but in MoP it does. What are you smoking? And Lava Lash isn't physical lol.

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Dude... Unleash Elements increases Lava Lash's damage. It didn't increase it in Cata but in MoP it does. What are you smoking? And Lava Lash isn't physical lol.

So you write here with the purpose of schooling us about how to test things, and then you write a complete BS as above? Sorry man, but you lost all the reliability you may had.

 

As for Unleash Flame, jesus even rocks know that Lava Lash isn't a spell, thus is not affected.

 

Then you can't test a spell/ability damage with a single hit, for obvious reasons. You must test it for like 5 min or more on a dummy, then have an addon like I have to calculate the average damage of normal hits ((max hit + min hit)/2).

If you want to correct other people testing, please be at least sure that you know how to actually test things out before.

 

Then again, the difference in damage is much bigger as I calculated on the current stats I had when I did those tests back in october.

There is definitely something wrong with mastery scaling.

I repeat it again, I'm hitting for 75K Lava Lashes with 536 Ilvl, reaching the peaks at 120k with all procs up and I'm talking with about 90k AP.

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