Originally Posted by
Admuntour
To be honest I don't think itemization is such a big issue any more with the upcoming changes.
First of all most seals and judgments now scale much better with AP, secondly seals judgments, CS and Divine storm have a base mana cost.
Now what does this translate into? Well I'm going to use my char as an example, right now unbuffed I have 5500 mana, from what I've seen most judgments cost a base 5% mana, so judging something will cost me 275 mana, if I were to have 7000 mana (I can reach that value raid buffed) then using a judgment would cost 350 mana.
Now unbuffed I have 2090 AP, lets say I judge wisdom on a target, that gives me a chance to regain mana equal to 9% of my AP, 9% of 2090 means 188 mana.
Now if I have 5500 mana and judge a target with wisdom it would cost me 275 mana, but I would get 188 mana back from an attack, but if I have 7000 mana and judge wisdom it costs me 350 mana and I only get 188 back from wisdom.
Same thing for judgment of the wise, I'm going to use SoC as an example for my next calculation, so lets say I want to judge a target with command, with the new scaling calculation it will do 36% of my AP thats 752+ 30% weapon damage against an unstuned target, my average weapon damage is 1127 so it comes down to 332 damage for a total of 1090.
Now 60% of 1090 is 654, if I have 5500 mana and I judge a target with command it costs me 5% of my mana thats 275 but I get 654 back from JotW, if I have 7000 mana it will cost me 350 to judge and I get 654 back.
So as you can see having a smaller mana pool actually makes it easier to refill and makes it more robust.
If this is the case then itemization won't be a problem at all, I could happily wear full warrior or DK DPS gear with no intellect and it would benefit me more since I would have more AP that means more mana back from judgment of wisdom and more mana from jotw.
Of course I could be wrong and the mana cost of judgments is 5% of your base mana, however that still doesn't change the facts that you will get more bang for your buck if you wear warrior gear since it will have strength, which means more AP which still means more mana back.