Which enchant should I get?Follow

So I just gotthis staff out of Naxx 10. I'm just not sure which enchant to save up for it. The +81 SP enchant to staves is about the same price wise as the regular +61 SP enchant, but I'm not sure it would be worth it to spend 1k+ gold on an enchant for a weapon I may yet still replace. Last week we didn't finish Naxx due to time constraints and people not logging in, so we didn't get to the military quarter or the last two bosses. So I was thinking maybe it would be better off for me to get the +50 SP that I had for my last weapon as it's significantly cheaper. I don't mind the idea of splurging on the gold for a really good weapon, but it just seems like a waste of money to spend that much on a weapon I'm most likely going to replace in the next couple of weeks. What do you all think? What would you do?

My friend, I'm not sure what tournament you've been doing, but I do believe you're quite mistaken. The sword and dagger from the tournament are both 408 spellpower weapons.



Don't write off spirit. With glyphed Molten Armor up, spirit is effectively .55 crit rating per point(I round it down to .5 for easier mathing in my head). A piece that looks like lackluster with just its spellpower and normal damage stat ratings can come to shine if it has some good spirit on it as a bonus. Always "convert" the spirit to crit before you judge a piece.

I have access to something like 84 abyss crystals for any time I need an enchant. I do not concern myself with little things like the price of abyss crystals.

I am, but that's not why I have access to them. In my 10 mans, we DE all the trash loot and put the crystals in our old guild bank for use later. Any member of our 10 mans is welcome to get some of them for any enchant they need for a piece of raid use gear. However, very few people take advantage of that, so our stockpile is growing.

Thanks for clearing up the weap enchant tabstopper.

On the sword I apologize, I was told it was a champion reward. Guess not :/

As for Spirit and Crit.. that's assuming you USE Molten Armor. I use Mage Armor FAR more than Molten. I only use Molten if we have an intelligent ret Pally at the least. I happen to prefer 100% MP5 while casting over crit on long fights or runs. For short things(Emalon comes to mind) Molten is nice, but I'd not spend a Glyph on it.

Plus, most OH offer good Spirit, and I think the KT sword has some on it, so overall, Staff is not the best Mage weap.

Yes, I just realized this a couple days ago. :-) I got the 69 SP for staves enchant for less than 100g, which seems much better considering I'll probably replace the staff in the next month or so. At least I hope I will.

As far as the Molten Armor Mage Armor debate goes, it's all personal preference. I prefer Molten Armor because it helps increase my damage. With Evocation having a cool down of just 2 minutes for me as an Arcane Mage, Mage Armor is pretty useless. If I give it my all, I typically run out of mana in a little over a minute, then I pop a mana gem and that'll last me to the two minutes for the Evocation cool down.

Edited, May 18th 2009 10:14pm by PigtailsOfDoom