Help me make an informed decision! Magicka vs spell damage choices.

Waffennacht

Prob should've posted it here, so ill repost it here:

I was trying to compare stats of various armors and therefore various stats.

And I couldn't find an answer (falling asleep doesn't help either lol)

Basically what I came up with was 4 different set combinations.

They are:

1. 40,000 magicka and 2600 spell damage at 50% crit
2. 35,000 magicka and 3100 spell damage at 57% crit
3. 35,000 magicka and 2800 spell damage at 57% crit + 1000 dps
4. 37,500 magicka and 2600 spell damage at 50% crit + 1000 dps

These are rounded numbers fyi. And using the approximate 10 magicka = 1 spell damage (again rounding cuz doin this in my head) everything is really really close to each other. I found that to increase a spell's damage by 1000 it takes approximately 400ish spell damage, again making all those combinations very similar.

Looking for opinions on what would be best for dps? What would you suggest

Btw sorc, so higher mag means more shield and pet dmg, and Overload seems to scale more with magicka.

paul_j

Number 2. I sit around 38.5k max magicka 31xx spl dmg 65 crit 1100 mag regen with 340 cp. I'm double destro but still hit hard and manage to sustain for longer fights or ones where I have to carry the other dd.