[Bug] DISC belt always seen as Lightning Rod, suggests +1.56% switch to Versatility

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Hello AskMrRobot team,

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I’m seeing a confusing import issue with the Durable Information Securing Container belt (item level 691). In-game I have the Static Charge (Versatility) version equipped, but every time I export and re-import my character, AskMrRobot:

  1. Detects the belt as the Lightning Rod (Nature-damage) proc.
  2. Suggests that I swap to the Versatility proc belt for a +1.56% score gain.

This is wrong, because I’m already wearing the Versatility-proc version in WoW—you can see the in-game tooltip clearly shows Static Charge: “increases your Versatility by 10 680 for 30 s, –5% per cast.”

Steps to reproduce

  • Equip the Static Charge (Versatility) belt in WoW (bonus IDs 7:1046:4999).
  • Export your character via .lua or character string.
  • Re-import on AskMrRobot’s site.
  • Notice that the belt is still listed as the Lightning Rod proc and the optimizer recommends switching for +1.56%.

Expected behavior
The import should recognize 1046:4999 as the Versatility proc and calculate its DPS gain, not treat it as Lightning Rod.

Actual behavior
AskMrRobot always maps the belt to the Lightning Rod/Nature-damage effect (7:1043:5002), displays a +1.56% “upgrade” opportunity, and ignores that I already have the correct Static Charge version.

I’ve attached two screenshots: the in-game tooltip showing Versatility, and the AskMrRobot results panel showing Lightning Rod +1.56%. Please let me know if you need my full export string or any other logs. Thanks for your help!

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If you could give me a snapshot of your case, we can try it out. You can do that by clicking the “help” link next to the big “Best in Bags” section header, then copy the generated 32-digit code here.

I just tried it on my characters and had another person try, and it is detecting the proper effect when importing… so there must be something specific to your case.

And just to double-check: you are running the latest version of the addon, version 160?

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Hi there,

Thanks for looking into this. Here’s my snapshot code:
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And yes, I’m running AskMrRobot addon version 160.

Let me know if you need anything else!

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Yeah I’m not sure why the addon is not picking up the effect that you currently have active…

As a safety, the addon will return lightning rod as the active effect if it cannot determine which one is actually active, which I expect is happening in your case.

There is no really good way to read the active effect… Blizzard decided to make it difficult. The only way that I have found is to compare the tooltip on the belt to the tooltip of each spell effect. Unfortunately that can be a little unreliable though… sometimes the spell information does not load as expected.

I’ll see if I can think of another way to read the active effect… I cannot reproduce the issue on any of my own machines though, so it will be hard to test.

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Hello,

Thanks for looking into this and for explaining how the addon handles uncertain procs. I’ve already sent you my snapshot code and confirmed I’m on v160, so please let me know if there’s anything else you need to reproduce the problem.

Also—do you have a specific forum section or category where I should post addon bug reports and feedback? I want to make sure I’m sharing in the right place.

Thanks again for your help!

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I sent you a message with a test version of the addon if you are willing to try it out and see if we can figure out this issue.

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I have the same problem. This bug only affects the versa buff of the belt. Any other effects are detected correctly.

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That’s an interesting bit of extra information… I’ll test it out and see if I can recreate the issue with just that variant.

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Same issue here

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We have confirmed that this issue only happens with the Versatility variant (Static Charge).

We have a fix for the addon that we can put on curseforge, wago, etc. sometime later today or tomorrow – it will be version 161.

Updating the manual download on our website might be put off because we’re in the middle of a lot of 11.2 changes, so you’ll need to grab it from one of the 3rd party addon sites between now and the 11.2 release.

edit: v161 is now available on curseforge and wago.

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