Mage best Main Stat

[tofucsek]

A very simple question: what is the best main stat for a PVE Mage? Up until today I thought Energy but after seeing what Attack does to the damage calculation, I'm not that sure anymore.

Would even a full Impact build work?

Please leave comment and possibly give explanation.

[Barara]

as far i know mage and healer skills are spell damage it is need energy for damage, while attack are count as physical attack (warrior, rogue, archer) use this.
there are defense stat for that.
and for impact it is increasing critical hit rate for both spell and physical damage, the higher impact the higher chance for critical hit.
CMIIW

[tofucsek]

Thanks for the reply.

Attack actually increases heal and spell damage as well, useful info to know.

As per impact, the tooltip luckily is pretty obvious, I was hoping more for a brainstorming of ideas.

[adrian3k]

tried all combo on 55 unique gear maxed up to +7

full energy had biggest dmg output (DPS), full attack was higher in dmg, but lower on DPS - was using dark tree from ora mage

less energy - lower mana pool - lower bonus on skill (mp to dmg)

[Aelynthi]

Impact all the way, getting high crit dmg is easy so it'll out dps everything if your crit dmg is high enough.

[tofucsek]

Thanks for the replies.

Had a chat with a full Impact mage, he gained 13% in crit, compared to me being full energy.

I'm finding it hard to justify that 13% with almost 7k mana loss, not talking about the skill damage loss as well.

How did more damage resulted in less dps? Could you please elaborate on that?

[Eonir]

did you check the stats without stuff and spirits? and compare talents. can change a lot

[adrian3k]

not sure how to explain it to you

lets say skill make 4-8k dmg
so the formula is ((4-8k)+att) * skill multiply

full attack - lets say it makes 6-9k
full energy - lets say it makes 5-10k

so the dmg is higher, but dps lower - dunno if you will understand it ;)

[Eonir]

Execpt, to make math, need the real value in first to be sure ;) .

Don't forget, staff get Spell Damage, wich is NOT displa; So even full damage you have SD.

Need to see the cycle of your DPS too. And to check everything, we need a dps meter, that we don't have; In your math case, DPS is the same...

Maybe you are talking about "DPS" in the windows "stat detail" ?

In all case, not all the skills react the same when you up a stat.

[Revsky]

引用自 adrian3k：

so the dmg is higher, but dps lower - dunno if you will understand it ;)

It's easy to understand: individual damage will be higher, but less crit means lower damage per second. the ideal mage would be full energy with all stat jewel, combined with all stat buff food, crit elixir and crit damage talisman.