FeenixServerProject/Phoenix_1.12_Bugtracker — Issue #755: Poisons/enchants affected by +spell damage gear
Author: crotchrot
Created: 2012-03-01 10:27:38+00:00
State: open

Hello, on Feenix rogues poison gets boosted by wearing/using +spell damage gear, including flask of supreme power.

Early vanilla spell damage boosted rogue attacks, including poisons and whatnot, but then a rogue with around 700 spell dmg went around with Thunderfury and blizzard nerfed it overnight lol

Source: http://www.wowhead.com/forums&topic=18441/spell-damage-for-poisons
"+Spell Damage gear does not affect poison damage."

The same happens when rogues enchant Fiery Weapon. You can read from wowpedia:

Source: http://www.wowpedia.org/Fiery_Weapon
"It does not seem to benefit from bonus spell damage.

Lifesteal worked the same; both lifesteal/fiery are affected by debuffs on the target (eg curse of shadows/shadow vulnerability/imp scorch/curse of elements) but neither scaled with the spell damage on the rogue.
Source: http://www.wowhead.com/spell=20032#comments

"God does anyone remember before 1.7 patch this would heal people for ungodly amounts of life and steal ungodly amounts of life. before 1.7 this was effected by +spell dmg items and effects. +healing and +shadow made this enchant popular for rogues and druids and such. Hunters would stack +spll dmg and healing gear just for this enchant. my hunter with Duel wield got 400-500 heals and afflicted 400-500 per proc." [NB it was actually 1.8 ]

It is affected by stances, eg defensive stance -10% dmg and Darkmoon Faire buff (another +10% dmg) though!