Tooltips could show estimated damage

[Shaidyn]

A lot of my abilities say something like "Doing 123% damage". I also have equipment that increases my damage by a set amount, and a talent that decreases my damage by a set amount. I think it would be great if the tooltips estimated the range of damage I'd do on a strike.

[jenx]

Afaik this is not easily done because the code is written in such a way that you can't simulate a hit to calculate the values in advance

[HousePet]

Yeah too many potential modifiers. I tried working it out once and cried.

[Shaidyn]

Thanks for the feedback, folks. I'm not really looking for the estimate of damage against a specific target (I'm not worried about penetration and armour and reductions, etc), but rather just the range of damage based on weapon damage.

So if I have a weapon that does 10 to 20 fire damage, an attack that does 200% weapon damage, and a 10% fire damage buff, instead of a tooltip saying "Does 200% weapon damage", the tooltip says "22 to 44 damage". Something like that. (I don't know how the damage calculations work, but you get the idea).

[HousePet]

It really won't tell you any more than 200% weapon damage does though.