every 12.6 pvp power boosts your damage/healing by 1% no matter what.
let's look at an example, the base healing of regrowth(without HoT) is 5059 at 70. 12.6 more pvp power will increase that by 1%, that is, by 50. but 12.6 spell power will not do that because regrowth takes 95.8% of Spell Power, so 12.6 spell power will only increase your regrowth by 12.6*95.8%=12.
right now, you can tell how much damage/healing spells do on wowhead. so for casters, all you need to do is stack intelligence/spell power until the point at which every 12.6 intelligence/spell power only boost your main abilities by slightly less than 1%. that's when you start stacking PvP power. because from that point on, every 12.6 pvp power will continue to boost your dps/healing by 1%.
for some, it may be beneficial to start stacking pvp power over int/sp at the very beginning, for others, it could be never. for most, there is a balance point somewhere in between, i.e., you could optimize your dps/healing.
you can check out how much int/sp affect your spells on wowhead. simply drag the icon to level 70 and look at the tooltip. like this
now regarding physical dps class: it's exactly the same principle. all you need to do is stack agility/str/AP until the point at which every 12.6 agility/12.6str/25.2 AP only boost your main abilities by slightly less than 1%. then start stacking pvp power.
so here is what you do, you do some BG's, run recount, then look at abilities that, combined, account for 90~95% of your total healing/dps, then figure out how much 12.6 of your main-stat will increase those by 1%
for example, if your top 3 abilities are A(40%), B(20%) and C(15%), and 12.6 of your main-stat increases A by 1.4%, B by 0.8% and C by 1%, then 40%*1.4%+20%*0.8%+15%*1%=0.87%, which means 12.6 of your main-stat doesn't effectively increase your damage by 1%, so you should change some gems into pvp power gems. then you do the test again, until you are at your optimized point.
let's look at an example, the base healing of regrowth(without HoT) is 5059 at 70. 12.6 more pvp power will increase that by 1%, that is, by 50. but 12.6 spell power will not do that because regrowth takes 95.8% of Spell Power, so 12.6 spell power will only increase your regrowth by 12.6*95.8%=12.
right now, you can tell how much damage/healing spells do on wowhead. so for casters, all you need to do is stack intelligence/spell power until the point at which every 12.6 intelligence/spell power only boost your main abilities by slightly less than 1%. that's when you start stacking PvP power. because from that point on, every 12.6 pvp power will continue to boost your dps/healing by 1%.
for some, it may be beneficial to start stacking pvp power over int/sp at the very beginning, for others, it could be never. for most, there is a balance point somewhere in between, i.e., you could optimize your dps/healing.
you can check out how much int/sp affect your spells on wowhead. simply drag the icon to level 70 and look at the tooltip. like this
now regarding physical dps class: it's exactly the same principle. all you need to do is stack agility/str/AP until the point at which every 12.6 agility/12.6str/25.2 AP only boost your main abilities by slightly less than 1%. then start stacking pvp power.
so here is what you do, you do some BG's, run recount, then look at abilities that, combined, account for 90~95% of your total healing/dps, then figure out how much 12.6 of your main-stat will increase those by 1%
for example, if your top 3 abilities are A(40%), B(20%) and C(15%), and 12.6 of your main-stat increases A by 1.4%, B by 0.8% and C by 1%, then 40%*1.4%+20%*0.8%+15%*1%=0.87%, which means 12.6 of your main-stat doesn't effectively increase your damage by 1%, so you should change some gems into pvp power gems. then you do the test again, until you are at your optimized point.
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