WotLK Spellpower Change

September 8, 2008 by Zuggy · 1 Comment

As many of you know I’ve been watching these WotLK changes come pouring in for weeks now, however one change did happen to slip through my radar, and it’s a pretty big one. As some of you may have read, +healing and +damage will be merged into a single stat called “spellpower” when patch 3.0 is released. The spellpower on your current weapon will be determined by the following formula.

Spellpower = +Healing * 0.532

The .532 value for this formula was derived using an average of the top 10 +healing items in the game. Fellow WoW blogger Phaelia from resto4life.com included this table in his recent post on the druid implications of these spell power changes.

	+Healing Before	Spell Power After	+Damage Before	Conversion Ratio	Spell Damage Gain
[Nightstaff of the Everliving]	348	185	116	0.532	59%
[Rod of the Blazing Light]	348	185	116	0.532	59%
[Exodar Life-Staff]	364	194	122	0.533	59%
[Crystalheart Pulse-Staff]	382	204	128	0.534	59%
[Staff of Dark Mending]	407	216	136	0.531	59%
[Ethereum Life-Staff]	415	221	138	0.533	60%
[Staff of Immaculate Recovery]	443	236	148	0.533	59%
[Apostle of Argus]	486	259	162	0.533	60%
[Crystal Spire of Karabor]	486	259	162	0.533	60%
[Golden Staff of the Sin'dorei]	550	293	183	0.533	60%
Average				0.532	60%

As you can see, the spellpower changes will completely revamp the way healing and damage are calculated. In order to compensate for the spellpower changes healing coefficients will be adjusted to make up for the difference. You shouldn’t notice any reduction in your effective healing.

However, it’s happy days for caster DPS! Currently it does not look like blizzard has any plans to change damage coefficients for +damage spells…meaning all casters should receive a 60% damage increase.

Though don’t get to excited, I would expect the inflated damage values to level out by the time everyone hits level 80. This change should make healer hybrid’s lives much easier as all your gear will be centered around a single stat.