Mage Mininum Stat Requirements

[sky]

I've been wondering for a while what the mage stat requirements are for raiding, and I came up with this:

6000 +HP
9000+ Mana
500+ Bonus Damage
30+ Spell Hit Rating
30+ Spell Penetration
15% Spell Crit Chance

Am I close? Or am I just way too dumb to be a mage?

[Rukei]

sky said:

I've been wondering for a while what the mage stat requirements are for raiding, and I came up with this:

6000 +HP
9000+ Mana
500+ Bonus Damage
30+ Spell Hit Rating
30+ Spell Penetration
15% Spell Crit Chance

Am I close? Or am I just way too dumb to be a mage?

Spell Penetration is almost useless as a mage.

Spell Hit is nice, but there's a nasty resist chance of around 3% you can't get rid of with 100% hit.

15% Spell Crit makes me laugh, a lot. You want atleast 20%, and that's assuming some greens. So to raid 24-ish or higher, especially as fire.

[lost]

Isn't that bonus damage a bit low as well?

-Lost

[brekk]

rukei said:

Spell Hit is nice, but there's a nasty resist chance of around 3% you can't get rid of with 100% hit.

Lv. 73 Bosses have give a level 70 an innante 17% chance to resist, through +hit, talents, draenai, whatever you can get it down to 1% but no lower.

[valant]

weL on valant I have a 19.5% chance to crit which honestly is all you really need as a full frost spec mage. my hit rateing is like 65 and my +frost is 780.....

The +crit all depends on your spec

~V

[Rukei]

brekk said:

rukei said:

Spell Hit is nice, but there's a nasty resist chance of around 3% you can't get rid of with 100% hit.

Lv. 73 Bosses have give a level 70 an innante 17% chance to resist, through +hit, talents, draenai, whatever you can get it down to 1% but no lower.

Running Scarlet Monastery as a level 70 warlock, against level 38-42 elites, with +15% hit, I had a 3% resist. Does this mean that level 38-42 elites in SM just have a higher resist rate? Or perhaps it differs class to class? Or perhaps it's the whole "instant DOT" effect? Or an extremely bad run of luck over about ten thousand spells? I used swstats to test it, and was leveling up my alt so it was a two way thing ^^

Edit: I now see why Midnight spoke so highly of you, you like to correct people as much as he does :O

[sky]

lost said:

Isn't that bonus damage a bit low as well?

-Lost

500 BD does seem low, 600+?

[chrollo]

at least 800ish spell damage if you're not MM
20%+ spellcrit, varies with spec...
0-170ish spell hit for boss level mobs (depends how often you want to avoid resists, need up to 16%)