Intellect:Spellpower

Should have posted this with the ratings conversions yesterday but slipped my mind.


The intellect:Spellpower conversion in the current beta build is 1:1, however like all stats the very lowest points behave differently. Your first 20 intellect gives only 1 mana each, compared to 15 for every point past 20. For spellpower, your first 10 points give none, while each point past that gives 1. So if you have 1000 intellect, you'll have 990 spellpower.

Weapons still have spellpower on them. In fact, they seem to not have intellect. This is so weapons can still be a significantly higher DPS contribution without also having ridiculous amounts of intellect on them inflating mana pools. Blue posts have said procs (trinkets, a theoretical future version of Lightweave, etc) could well still be spellpower to prevent mana pools from jumping up and down constantly as well.

As for mana pools, be ready for them to get BIG. We've already seen that blues available within the first 2-3 levels as quest rewards outshine even 277 epics, and intellect numbers of 300+ on random crap gear is the norm. Just to give you an idea, the level 85 drinks resore 72,000 mana, compared to 19,200 from level 75 drinks. Some of the screenshots coming out of beta have quest geared level 82s standing around unbuffed with 40k mana pools.