what is better for a caster,, plus intellegence or plus spell power?
Is there a formula that shows how much of one is equal to the other ?
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I'm assuming you're currently leveling up, and by your question's nature I'm guessing your in your mid 20s, early 30s.
In short, stack Intelligence and a bit of Stamina (of the Eagle works great), to smooth out your leveling experience - stamina being especially important on a PVP server and not so much on a PVE server.
When itemizing a character, its important to keep in mind your main goals. On the grind/quest of everyday WoW, small ups in Damage usually will not give the same long term benefits as stacking more of your Mana and Health pools. When you start to get around level 55, and on throughout Outlands and Northrend, you will find yourself having more options than just "Spell OR Intel" and then you choose your stats based on your spec. But when it becomes a sacrafice to your base manapool in order to up your damage a marginal amount, its not worth the trade off and you will see your killing capacity as well as kills per hour fall.
As for a formula, it is difficult to calculate such a formula due to the fact that the two stats do not function on a similar playing field. Spell Power will make you kill faster, where Intelligence will let you kill longer before a break and, being a Mage, will allow you more escape and kiting options that use a lot of mana.
How Blizzard has actually formulated it (with their suffix and iLevel formulas) is the following ::
1 Int = 1.25 SP = 1.5 Sta
In short, stack Intelligence and a bit of Stamina (of the Eagle works great), to smooth out your leveling experience - stamina being especially important on a PVP server and not so much on a PVE server.
When itemizing a character, its important to keep in mind your main goals. On the grind/quest of everyday WoW, small ups in Damage usually will not give the same long term benefits as stacking more of your Mana and Health pools. When you start to get around level 55, and on throughout Outlands and Northrend, you will find yourself having more options than just "Spell OR Intel" and then you choose your stats based on your spec. But when it becomes a sacrafice to your base manapool in order to up your damage a marginal amount, its not worth the trade off and you will see your killing capacity as well as kills per hour fall.
As for a formula, it is difficult to calculate such a formula due to the fact that the two stats do not function on a similar playing field. Spell Power will make you kill faster, where Intelligence will let you kill longer before a break and, being a Mage, will allow you more escape and kiting options that use a lot of mana.
How Blizzard has actually formulated it (with their suffix and iLevel formulas) is the following ::
1 Int = 1.25 SP = 1.5 Sta
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yes srry for the lack of info I have a lvl 34 mage, specced in frost and for the most part 99% of the time I play pve solo (with pvp enabled) but I also have a lvl 42 warlock.. I was assuming that the spell vs intell would be the same for both? no ?
I am close to your level still ( been levelling other characters ) but i went +spell power first then whatever else was useful , believe me unless i am facing a group of casters i usually win easily against melee class mobs , you do need intellect though but with spells that is not such a problem any more for me , i know my build is probably not perfect as yet but does seem to work rather well and my crits which come often hit for real crazy amounts for my level and the faster killing is what a Mage is all about.
I also used my enchanting to boost my stats a bit which i would say will be well worth it as i level up as it is almost a free boost for me.
I also used my enchanting to boost my stats a bit which i would say will be well worth it as i level up as it is almost a free boost for me.
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