10-04-2005, 05:27 AM
savaughn,Oct 3 2005, 07:01 PM Wrote:Take a look at Arcanist. That set is good for a) ice mages who B) are interested in raiding heavily. It's an MC farming suit. If you get the entire set from start to finish, and do all the work required to do so... you are insignificantly improved in PvP since the whole set together adds +46 to damage. Joy. 4 months of work and you're completely unimproved for 1/2 the end game.
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Actually, Arcanist is more of a PvP set than anything else due to the enormous amounts of intellect and stamina on it. +Stats favours PvP because of the short nature of PvP engagements. +damage is helpful for PvP too, no doubt, but it's more critical for PvE where you will be casting dozens of spells in single engagements and where the accumulative benefit of the damage adds up.
The truth is that in all the Molten Core boss fights right now, my gear could provide me with +1000 intellect (that's fifteen thousand more mana) and +1000 spirit and my role would not significantly change or grow greater. I would crit 10% more of the time with spells, so in return for these 2000 stat points I would have a 10% DPS increase. Heck, throw +1000 stamina on there and I still don't really derive any benefit - I still can't tank or anything. BWL makes stamina more important for PvE, though.