Spell penetration

Rivfader said:
So how much spell penetration does a 39 shaman need? Will the 20 spell pen to cloak suffice?
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It's not something you gear/enchant for, but yes get it for your cloak since there isn't anything better. Remember spell pen only lowers your targets resistance, it doesn't effect your chance to hit, but increases the chance your enemies wont partially or fully resist your spells.



For example if someone has a Shadow Protection priest buff (+30 shadow resist), your 20 spell penetration will lower that to 10.



Hit rating is a whole other story.
 
Shamans use Nature damage primarily, with a little fire and frost. The only people out there with nature resistance are other shamans, and that takes up a wind totem (WF or Grounding) so I wouldn't worry too much.



Paladins and those grouped with them MIGHT have 30 fire or frost resist but it's rare they actually use resistance auras other than shadow because there is no frost or fire CC (same goes for shamans with their totems).



Get hit capped as that is far more important!



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Its: +7 resistance to all vs +12 agi (not sure how much armor and dodge that is but dont think its better than 120 armor) vs 120 armor vs +20 spell penetration.

I whould go with 20 spell penetration anyways. But Im not sure about enhancement, 12 agi is prob better then.
 
Ya when they changed the racials from resists to reduced chance to be hit by spell schools they removed a lot of the reason for having Spen on certain classes. For a spellhance shaman I would go with +12 agility, for a healing one +120 armor. Haven't seen an elemental in ages but possible you could argue Spen on one.



Might be nice just to have around if you're running into someone giving you a lot of resist trouble.
 
Well I was partially getting it cause green tower always seems to proc against me >.< But I do have a +12 agi cloak, 120 is kinda shit for mitigation so I figured to put 20 spell pen on my battle healers. I was just wondering what the actual beneft is at 39, if 20 spell pen scales better at 39 like a rating would or if its a static bonus, like base stats.
 
Rivfader said:
Well I was partially getting it cause green tower always seems to proc against me >.< But I do have a +12 agi cloak, 120 is kinda shit for mitigation so I figured to put 20 spell pen on my battle healers. I was just wondering what the actual beneft is at 39, if 20 spell pen scales better at 39 like a rating would or if its a static bonus, like base stats.
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It's a static 20 spell penetration at all levels. I'd take the agility personally :)



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Rivfader said:
Which means what though? I've never played a caster, their resistance is reduced by 20 or something?
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Yep. If they have 30 resistance, with 20 spell penetration they actually have 10 resistance. If they have 0 resistance then they still have 0 resistance after spell penetration - which is why it isn't an amazing stat unless players are stacking nature/frost/fire resist constantly.



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useabandage said:
i like it as disc, seems to help against shadow restist aura when mana burning pallies in 2's
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Holy shit it's bandage! HAI!
 
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