Spell Power vs Max Magicka

Savos_Saren

The last time I read about spell power vs magicka pools... I believe 11 magicka points = 1 spell power point, correct?

The Mage Mundus gives 1280 magicka (without divines gear)... which would equal roughly 116 extra spell power.

The Apprentice Mundus gives 166 spell power (without divines gear)... which would equal roughly 1826 magicka.

So, in theory, wouldn't it be smarter to use The Apprentice instead of The Mage?

Triddle

Keep in mind that magicka itself is a resource. Your pool with apprentice will be smaller, not that this necessarily matters, but this just shows that apprentice is not strictly 'better' than mage.

SquareSausage

Max magicka can be raised with racial passives aswell as providing a larger pool!

DaveMoeDee

When you run out of magicka, that spell power won't help much.

Lexxypwns

If you want damage, go thief. If you want max resources(shield stack builds come to mind), Mage is a fair choice. Apprentice is just outright bad

Minalan

jaburns wrote: »

The last time I read about spell power vs magicka pools... I believe 11 magicka points = 1 spell power point, correct?

The Mage Mundus gives 1280 magicka (without divines gear)... which would equal roughly 116 extra spell power.

The Apprentice Mundus gives 166 spell power (without divines gear)... which would equal roughly 1826 magicka.

So, in theory, wouldn't it be smarter to use The Apprentice instead of The Mage?

It's something like 10.2 max magicka per spell damage. Max Magicka also gives you bigger harness Magicka shield if you ever use that.

Mage and Apprentice are terrible signs, you want to put points into things that you can't easily replace with CP or set pieces.

Atronach: maybe use if you absolutely need the sustain.
Thief: best place to get crit. Best mundus.
Shadow: insane amount of crit damage. Arguably as good as thief, the forums still debate it.

The rest? I wouldn't touch them on a magicka character.

SienneYviete

All the calculations regarding mundus stones can be found here.
http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/introduction-to-pve-damage-calculation-homestead/#post-674906

leepalmer95

1050 magicka = 100 spell dmg.

Go thief for dmg
Go mage for dmg + bigger shields.

xboxNA corin6

Just chiming in to confirm the ratio is 10.5 to 1. Shields don't gain anything from spell power only magicka. Also daedric mines and one other spell I can't remember benefits from spell power twice as much.

ScooberSteve

Shadow or thief would be better.