ejthemovie wrote:Just curious as to the Value of Warlord's Shoulders for Mages, according to Theorycraft on bosses with 140 Resistance to Fire/Frost - 75 from CoE, the 10 spell pen should be equivelant to approx 27 spellpower in my gear. Wondering how the values work @Lazermon or anybody else competent enough to answer this question.
Not sure if this is correct but according to this link 10 spell pen is worth roughly 2.5% increased damage provided that the mob has resistance to penetrate.
http://vanillagaming.org/forum/index.php?topic=15951.0
I think right now spell pen is not useful since I can't recall ever getting a partial resist on bosses in MC/BWL. However I am not sure what amount of resistances these bosses have, it must be that their resistance does not exceed 85 (total resistance penetrated by coe + arcane subtly). I am not sure about bosses in Naxx and AQ40 but I imagine that some bosses will have 85+ resist in which case spell pen would be extremely valuable if it does infact add 2.5% increased damage per 10 resistances penetrated.