211 - Alternative to HOOM, HP healed in x seconds
What is the enhancement in mind? How should it look and feel?
I use DrDamage to evaluate gear for healing (i am a Holy Priest). The most important thing for me at the moment is mana endurance and efficiency, as some gruelsome heroics showed me :).
So i mostly use the HOOM value to compare gear. Two things would improve DrDamage's value vastly for me.
- The possibilty to put the HOOM value as text onto the action bar.
- The HOOM value is calculated with simulated chain casting (i think). Much more useful for my purposes would be a value: HP healed in x seconds.
If x is smaller than the time to HOOM it would give you an indicator for your burst healing, if it is longer, your mana endurance.
In the first case you end with y mana left. In the latter you end with near zero mana while regenerating mana during the full x seconds.
You could set it to 5 minutes for example to evaluate gear for raids.
In the end this would go a bit into the direction of an long outdated addon called HealPoints. Probably you remember that.
Probably this would be useful as an alternative for DOOM too.
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| gunters | Dec 21, 2010 at 17:20 UTC | Create |
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Gagorian Jan 26, 2011 at 19:29 UTC - 0 likesYou can already get all the info via:
DrDamage:Calc(name, rank, tooltip)
Where name is the ability name, rank is either rank or nil, tooltip is a boolean to return all the tooltip information in a table.
Returns are: text1, text2, CalculationResults, calculation
text1 and text2 are the primary and secondary actionbar texts, CalcutionResults is a table that contains all the calculated values, calculation is a table that contains all the variables used in the calculation
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Leliel Jan 26, 2011 at 14:27 UTC - 0 likesThere is a thing you can do (or you already have) and which allow other developers to help gunters.
Add a public function (API) which return a chosen value for a spell like :
With that, someone else could make a little databroker addon which display one chosen value into any bar-like addon, or display it on action bar using macro.
Leliel, Neon, Nerv, Yui, Zeruel
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Gagorian Dec 27, 2010 at 15:27 UTC - 0 likesWell, HPS is already an indicator of burst healing capability as it's the average maximum output of the skill. Basically if I understood what you're asking, the calculation would just be HPS multiplied by seconds until capped by the HOOM value. So much of the information is already available in the tooltip, although it would give a more easily comparable number. What I'm trying to avoid is to drown the user in an even larger amount of options. Also my biggest concern is that it's not very easy to explain what calculations like this actually mean in a very limited amount of space in the tooltip and the options screen.
Basically I'm now sure yet if there's merit in adding this, but I'll consider it. If you have any further ideas related to this, feel free to add them to this ticket, I'll keep it open as a reminder for me.
Regarding putting HOOM on the actionbar, the reason why it isn't available is that HOOM calculations require regen calculations that are currently only done for the tooltip due to slightly more demanding calculations (performance wise) and current mana amounts. If HOOM would be put to the actionbar, all mana changes would need to trigger a full actionbar update increasing CPU time costs at least somewhat. With this considered, would you still want to have it available as an option?