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1. Classic Wow Spell Dmg Gear Vs Normal Gear Mage Trainer
2. Classic Wow Spell Dmg Gear Vs Normal Gear Mage Build

I played a lot of rogue back in the day, and one of the things i'd read about on Elitist Jerks from time to time is that if you're lacking hit rating, it is in some cases better to take crit pieces over some raw damage, when possible. That being said, I look at mages, whom have no hit gear right now, but, from what I see, a lot of mages are rushing straight flat spell damage gear, over crit.

Many items have a base item name followed by a suffix. The suffixes are similar to the item naming convention used in other Blizzard games such as Diablo and Diablo II. The suffix will always start with the word of followed by a few words that indicate quickly to the player what enhancements an item will give. How much enhancement an item gives is closely tied to the item quality and item. Meanwhile, a longer cast spell such as Fireball gets 100% of the Spell Damage in your gear as added damage. This means that 100 Spell Damage on your gear would cause Fireball to deal 100 extra damage per cast, but Frostbolt would only deal 81 extra damage, using the same gear. A table with the exact coefficients for all spells in WoW Classic.

Classic Wow Spell Dmg Gear Vs Normal Gear Mage Trainer

Welcome to our WoW Classic guide for arcane mages! Of all three mage specializations, arcane definitely raises some of the most interesting questions. Arcane doesn’t have much of a place as a damage specialization by itself due to a limited number of arcane spells, but it is a prominent choice. Magic resistance effects the the amount of damage reduced from that spell school, like armor reduces amount physical dmg by a percentage. In the case of players, spell school resist checks to see if spell is applied, and if applied then how much% the damage is reduced relative to resist level.

Why is this? Wouldn't it be more beneficial to pick up crit gear where possible, over spell damage right now, until more hit becomes available? Or at the least, get to a specific crit chance before going for flat spell damage?
Reading an Elitist Jerks thread about Hit vs Crit that dates back to 2006, the mages value crit the same as, if not more than hit rating, so with the lack of hit gear in the game right now, wouldn't that make spell crit your go to stat?
The reason I ask, is that we recently did a guild raid. Our mages rushed 'preraid BiS' which consisted of a lot of raw spell damage, and a small amount of crit on gear, where as, I went a different route, and put a priority on spell crit, over spell damage.
In the end, I ended up blowing the other mages out of the water, in terms of damage done.

Classic Wow Spell Dmg Gear Vs Normal Gear Mage Build

Any thoughts?