Spirit: how good is it?Follow

I don't think it does, never once have I heard anyone claim that the Spirit stat improves Mana/HP regen.

It does however effect proc's, it did before and as far as I know they haven't changed it.
No patch has said anything about changing it anyway.

In Beta, a high spirit sped up mana and health regen at a considerable rate...at such a high rate that an extremely high spirit would allow one to actually regain mana while casting channeling class spells.

Spirit was reduced in effectiveness for obvious reasons.

It does effect the mana and health regeneration on characters, just not at the easily noticeable level it once did.

HP are increased while out of combat.
Mana is increased so long as you aren't casting a spell, and haven't for the last 5 seconds.

People argue bitterly over the effectiveness of spirit in this game.

any caster will normaly want int over spirit simply because spirit is so situational and only saves you from downtime.

As a Priest, I rather have INT over Spirit. Spirit is really only useful when you're not in combat, and I'd just use a drink. I usually take INT over Stamina over Spirit. After that, it's usually AGI.

I did a test. First, my character stats.
Level 42 Druid on Kargath server. 171 spirit.

I had a +1 spirit enchantment on my bracer, which would be the tool for my experiment to enchant it +3 spirit.

I would cast spells until my mana was close to 0, then when my mana started ticking (or regenning) I would note them and compare results.

+1 spirit enchantment test :
86, 138, 189, 241, 292, 343, 395, 446, 498, 549, 601

If you compare the amount of mana regenned between ticks, 5 times out of the 20 seconds (2 seconds is a tick) it only regenned 51 mana, the rest 52.

+3 spirit enchantment test :
10, 61, 113, 165, 217, 269, 321, 373, 424, 476, 528

With 2 extra spirit, my mana regenned between ticks twice of 51, the remainder of times 52.

From this, I gained an extra 3 mana in 20 seconds with 2 extra spirit, which is equal to 0.075 mana per second.

I also did a secondary test with the +3 spirit, and I only gained 51 mana once, instead of the last test of twice.

RESULTS : 1 spirit = 0.075-0.1 mana per second.

Of course, this is outside of battle, and without casting spells during the ticks. Mana regens slower while casting spells or in combat, so it's even less than that.

All in all, spirit isn't THAT helpful. It will lessen downtime a bit, but don't worry about getting just spirit. There's some gear that just has +spirit and no other stats. Personally, from the tests I've done, the gear's pretty crappy then in my opinion. But you're welcome to perform the tests yourself. :)

Cool didn't know it affected regen rate, well you learn something new each day. :P

*bah* got rated down for some ungodly reason.

I stick to my Proc belief tho, I am POSITIVE spirit affects proc. If someone can please show me when they changed this it would be appreciated.
For those of you who don't know what proc is that is the probability chance of *weapons extra attacks" to hit. Like posion or maybe some ice-dmg if you have that sort of weapon.

Edit: To whomever/whoever that rated me down. Ok... can't even give an argument when you rate me down for something you think is wrong?
Weak.

Edited, Mon Dec 27 16:34:47 2004 by RacialCreamer

Then it had to have changed. I even made sure your amount of mana had nothing to do with it by taking of a piece of gear that had a large +INT to it (with no SPR on it of course) did the test again, same results. So your amount of mana has nothing to do with how SPR affects mana regen. As I said, feel free to do the test yourself. :)