Subwiz

Hello - I currently am level 64 and for the most part play with a core group of people and we do instances and shared pvp zones a couple of nights a week. I just upgraded all of my gear to level 62 Mastercrafted stuff and so far have no issues.

My big question is when an item drops and offers a bonus to Disruption for example or Focus but has 20 less INT than my current gear, which way do I go? Same goes out for resistances.

I'm having a tough time putting value to say +4 to disruption and how that compares to an INT decrease. I read in another thread that after 600 or so INT diminishing returns kicks in, I'm close to that now buffed in a group.

So how much affect does the bonus to Focus / Disruption, ect matter? Or do I simply wait till I get to 72 and upgrade it all again?

Thanks for the help.

Sub

daray

INT and +casting skills do different things.

INT increases the damage of your spells, and the size of your power pool (as the tooltip suggests).

+casting skills (primarily disruption for your damage-based spells), reduce the chance of your spells being outright resisted. This has always been low down the list of priorities in PVE play, but you will probably find it carries more weight in PVP. Increasing, for example, your disruption from level*5 to the hard cap of level*6.5 will make your disruption based spells an additional 20% harder to resist (based on diminishing returns).

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Subwiz

got it, so I think I need to max out my Int, is there a cap calculation like one for +casting skills?

BrightMorn

At level 80 it is 1220.
Formula: Stat Hard cap = (15 * Level) + 20
Typically 80% is good enough for the soft cap curve.

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Vaanir

Level * 6.5

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Pinski

You've got it backwards, he was asking for INT cap, which is level*15+20.

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Vaanir

No, he's asking for casting skills, Brightmorn already mentioned the stat cap (INT etc) so I mentioned the skill cap.

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Subwiz

I was asking for the Int cap, in my 2nd post I said "like the +casting skills" but it was provided

Thanks a lot, this helps a ton.