Originally Posted by MuffinManKen
Then why even include the function? Interestingly, Blizzard addons use GetSpellLink. So just a lazy conversion from Retail?
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Short answer, yes. There are many features they stripped out just by altering the returns of the API functions.
Originally Posted by Ketho
Hey that could be a fun idea with chat addons to parse messages for any plain text spell links, to still make it show as a link and show to tooltip
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If only. There's no reliable way to obtain a SpellID, which is necessary to reconstruct a link. There are many name collisions and you can't query the API for a spell you don't know by name.