Do you mages like spirit?Follow

Just curious if you guys like spirt gear? I was looking at my stats and was shocked to find, at lvl 70, my spirit is +6 (along with my str & agi). Ive been focusing on +hit, dmg, crit, int, & sta I failed to notice my lack of sp. Now I know it increases health/mana regen, but with pots, gems, & evo, Ive never really missed it at all. Just curious if anybody has the same problem?

Only way spirit is any good is if you're 18 points into Arcane with the proper talents.

So don't even worry about it.

Spirit will mean more to us now that in 2.4, mana regen per spirit is increased per point of intellect, but I have a feeling that it won't be significant enough for mages to think about their spirit that much.

Mage spells are relatively cheap and mana bars relatively large.

arcane meditation stacks with mage armor obviously, but since there's so much mage gear with spirit "wasted" on it, i decided to see just it felt like to have 5sr regen like my druid.

it's pretty easy to get a 125m/5 while casting with just regular 5man gear for a druid. to my shock and horror, i found out that with arcane meditation and mage armor up, i could get my mage's 5sr regen up to 114m/5 with just the same quality regular 5man drops. i was of course lasting much much longer in the tedious fights, but my damage sucked. not outrageously, but it did suck pretty bad compared to the serious mage gear. i used mana gem much much less, but still needed an evocate.

since mana gem is there to be used, and going for spirit eats so much of your damage, i really see no reason to sacrifice so much just to regen a little mana while casting. maybe it'll be a different picture after 2.4, but i'd take some convincing.