New Magister's Stats

I haven't seen this posted here, so I thought I'd toss the stats out for you guys. Pulled from the official Mage forum.

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I thought I'd just make a post with the changes to the Magister's set that I've read of.

Also, in case you're wondering, existing armor WILL be changed into the newer version; i.e., you won't have to recollect the Magister's armor that you already have.

Magister's Robes (Chest) - 89 Armor
Old: 31 Intellect, 13 Spirit
New: 31 Intellect, 8 Spirit, 9 Stamina

Magister's Crown (Helm) - 71 Armor
Old: 30 Intellect, 11 Spirit, 5 Stamina
New: 30 Intellect, 5 Spirit, 11 Stamina

Magister's Mantle (Shoulder) - 64 Armor
Old: 22 Intellect, 9 Spirit
New: 22 Intellect, 6 Spirit, 6 Stamina

Magister's Belt (Waist) - 46 Armor
Old: 21 Intellect, 9 Spirit
New: ???

Magister's Bindings (Wrist) - 35 Armor
Old: 15 Intellect, 7 Spirit
New: 15 Intellect, 5 Spirit, 4 Stamina

Magister's Leggings, Magister's Gloves, and Magister's Boots remain unchanged.

Overall Changes: -16 Spirit, +25 Stamina
This total does NOT include the changes to Magister's Belt!

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There were three different types of responses from people posting in the thread (which initially went up about a week ago). Thoughts ranged along these lines (and include my sarcastic comments as a warlock)

1.) Great! Now I'll finally get Magister's!/ I already had Magister's, but I like the changes (comment: Can I have you as one of the mages in my high level instance groups?)
2.) Not enough stamina! Give me my Dreadmist! (comment: Admit it - you won't be happy until you've got a set that looks exactly like Dreadmist but has mage bonuses)
3.) They give us a buff that makes spirit useful and then take our spirit!? How dare they! Give me Dreadmist since it has more spirit! (comment: Where exactly did you expect them to take stats from to boost your stamina? Were you planning on reducing the intellect on the set? And I do find it odd that despite the fact that you claim its the spirit on Dreadmist that has you interested, you don't say anything about Devout :rolleyes: )


I'm sure local opinions will vary just as widely.

Spirit still sucks, but at least it sucks less. 100 points of spirit means 7.5 points of mana per tick while casting with Mage Armor on, haha. It effectively reduces the mana cost of all your spells (with longer cast time spells being improved more) by a truly trivial margin. If you have 300 spirit it's 26 mana per tick while casting, so that's like about 10% off of Frostbolt. Yay.

I'd trade 5 points of spirit for 1 point of stamina any day, though, since stamina is by far the single most important stat for a PvP Mage.

Anybody who wants the old stuff back is smoking the crackrock. Hell, in a lot of cases green mid-50s "of the Eagle" items were *better*.

Here's a better one for you to look at. Total up all the stat bonuses on magister (old and new) and compare it to the total stat bonuses on dreadmist. Before, Magister was coming up way behind.

Yea look at the Robes alone (the item of biggest controversy IMO):

DM:
20 sta 21 int 13 spi
Magisters:
31 int 13 spi

Um... Magister's is 10 points short? Wtf?

It was like this on every piece. DM was just plain better. Note: This is still the case since they traded Spi for Sta instead of just adding Sta. But since Int and Sta are the only stats anyone was ever comparing anyway.. no one cares.