Wanna make SoD Interesting? Let SP scale off of main stats

[Baldnbrash-wild-growth]

@Myrtardradys-aegwynn

Isn’t changes like this what SoD is for? To experiment?

People parrot this argument, yet the only place I see Blizzard directly use the phrase “experiment” is when speaking of runes, saying for players to experiment with different rune abilities to change up the play style of a class.

@Myrtardradys-aegwynn

Casters aren’t that fine, statistics from Warcraft logs say otherwise.

Warlocks & fire mages are above paladins & melee hunters at the 95th percentile. Warlocks are above paladins and fire mages are about tied with melee hunters at the 75th percentile. Warlocks are only below rogues, warriors, and marksman hunters at 50th percentile. Arcane mages even are less than 2% behind fire mages - which are less than 1.5% behind paladins - at 50th percentile, even.

Other casters are behind, but from a damage perspective, several haven’t even come online at level 25. Now, mana issues they may have (read as: likely will have if not addressed) once they’re online is a completely different beast to address.

And to OP: To quote myself once more, since this topic has come up once more:

@Baldnbrash-wild-growth

@Piripi-area-52

Intellect REALLY needs to add spell damage. Both Agility and Strength add attack power as a main stat, making the primary start very good for those classes, but Intellect just adds mana and spell crit as a main stat, making it far worse than spell damage.

Strength gives 2 melee AP per point to druids, paladins, warriors, and shamans, and 1 AP to other classes.
Agility gives 2 ranged AP to hunters, 1 ranged AP to rogues and warriors, and 1 melee AP to hunters, rogues, and druids in cat form.
For druids in bear form, warriors, shamans, and paladins, it gives no melee AP, just crit chance and dodge chance.
Besides hunters and rogues, if you use melee, you’re going to want both strength and agility. This is reliant on correct itemization - which I’m not arguing that gear is incorrectly itemized, just stating that most classes are looking at more than one stat still for dealing damage. (And even for rogue and hunter, they’re not just looking for gear that gives agility, but agility and attack power.)

@Baldnbrash-wild-growth

. . . That having been said, itemization later in the game balances it out far more than it is currently sitting at, and tying spell damage to intellect would either have to be so minuscule that it’s essentially worthless, or it would be so good that you may as well remove spell damage on gear, as it’d be far more effective at increasing your damage and your mana pool to simply stack int.

Though the better casters are now much higher than they were than they time of writing that 22 days ago, in essentially every bracket.