What happened to the spell/ability description in on retail wow

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in classic it describe’s the ability and spell and what it does but on live and retail it doesn’t anymore is there any option to change this ? so it’s like descriptive and whatnot…

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Everyone knows that an aggressive color deals damage and a mild color heals.
Nobody looks at the descriptions anyway, they just fire up a calculation server telling you how to play.

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I’m not sure what you mean? Do you mean like floating combat text?

You can re-enable floating combat text in World of Warcraft using in-game console commands.

Healing
/console floatingCombatTextCombatHealing 1

Damage
/console floatingCombatTextCombatDamage 1

Pet Damage
/console floatingCombatTextPetMeleeDamage 1
/console floatingCombatTextPetSpellDamage 1

Periodic Damage
/console floatingCombatTextCombatLogPeriodicSpells 1

If you mean something else, please try to explain it again xD

If I hover over any ability it describes what the ability does:-

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no i meant when u hover on an ability like frostbolt u can see that it says “its a frostbolt that deals x amount of damage and its a icy bolt that get’s hurled” that’s what I mean u can see what I mean on classic wow and tbc… there the system is implemented on descriptive abilities and spell’s

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Dude, blizzard has misrepresented skill descriptions so many times in every game that no one looks at it.
In diablo 2 so far they are correcting the skill descriptions. Over 20 years since release.

I’ll add that it was mainly ressurected, because there was no money for legacy version. :money_mouth_face:

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Mine works fine in retail:-

I even checked on my mage:-

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Disable addons as standard, clear cache in game folder, use “repair installation” option.
Maybe something from this will help you.

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