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Attributes are the basic building blocks for a character's combat ability. The five primary attributes are strength, agility, stamina, intellect and spirit. These five attributes along with armor appear on the character sheet under "Base Stats". These are often referred to as simply stats.

A number of secondary attributes affect specific areas of combat more directly, and are often influenced in some way by a primary attribute. Secondary attributes include critical strike rate, damage absorption, attack power, spell damage and many others.

All characters inherently have some amount of each attribute that increases with level depending mainly on class. For example, a mage will have more base intellect than a rogue, who will have more base agility. Increasing these attributes is mainly done with equipment, as well as temporary effects such as buffs, elixirs, scrolls, auras and many other means.

Nearly all combat mechanics rely in some way on one or more character attributes. Increasing the appropriate attribute will increase damage done, reduce damage taken, increase healing done, affect a character's mana or health, or other benefits. Understanding how these attributes work is important for effective combat.

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Strength

See also: Attack power, Stat comparison#STR vs AGI

Strength (often abbreviated STR) has the following effects:

Strength does not affect the chance to land a critical strike. Strength does not improve the chance to block, but does slightly increase the amount of damage blocked when a block occurs. Strength improves block value by (Strength / 20), rounding down, for all classes capable of blocking.

Agility

AGI per 1% Crit
Class L. 60 L. 70
Druid 20 25
Hunter 33 40
Mage 20 25
Paladin 20 25
Priest 20 25
Rogue 29 40
Shaman 20 25
Warlock 20 25
Warrior 20 33
AGI per 1% Dodge
Class L. 60 L. 70
Druid Unknown 14.7
Hunter 20 26.5
Mage 20 25
Paladin 20 25
Priest 20 25
Rogue 14.5 20
Shaman 20 25
Warlock 20 25
Warrior 20 30
See also: Critical strike, Stat comparison#STR vs AGI

Agility (often abbreviated AGI) has the following effects:

Agility Equivalence Points is a notable formula for calculating the contribution of agility. It might be outdated with regard to hunters.


Stamina

Stamina (often abbreviated STA) has the following effects:

  • Stamina provides 10 health for each point for all Classes/Mobs/NPCs (except from the first 20 points of Stamina that provide 1 health for each point instead). It also increases health points of a player's pet for classes with pets. There are other non-standard adjustments that can be made for stamina:
  • Tauren — 5% Maximum Health increase - Stamina provides 10.5 health for each point.
  • Druids — talent Heart of the Wild (Feral, tier 6) provides a +4% bonus to stamina in bear form per talent point, max 5.
  • Tauren Druids — In bear form and feral specced, gain the following percentages to stamina: 5% (racial), 25% (bear form), 20% (Heart of the Wild), and 3% (Survival of the Fittest), for a total of 16.225 health per stamina. With Blessing of Kings, it jumps to 17.85 health per point of stamina.
  • Hunters — talent Survivalist (Survival, tier 3) provides a +2% bonus to stamina per talent, max 5. Hunters also have Endurance Training (Beast Mastery, tier 1) which gives up to a %5 health bonus, effectively giving you up to 11.5 health per point of Stamina.
  • Paladins
  • Priests
  • Rogues — talent Vitality (Combat, tier 7) provides a +2% bonus to stamina per talent, max 2.
  • Warlocks — talent Demonic Embrace (Demonology, tier 1) provides a +3% bonus to stamina per talent, max 5.
  • Warlocks — Imp can grant bonus stamina to his party members through Blood Pact, which can further be improved by Improved Imp (Demonology, tier 1) 10% increase to Blood Pact per talent, max 3.
  • Warriors — talent Vitality (Protection, tier 8) provides a +1% bonus to stamina per talent, max 5.

Intellect

Class Expected
@ 60 		L. 60
1% Crit 		L. 70
1% Crit
Warlock 200 60.6 81.92
Druid 192 60.0 80
Shaman 259 59.5 80
Mage 286 59.5 80
Priest 160 59.2 80
Paladin 106 54 80.05

Intellect (often abbreviated INT) has the following effects:

  • Increases mana points. Each point of intellect gives 15 mana points (except from the first 20 points of Intellect that provide 1 mana for each point instead).
  • Increases chance to score a spell critical strike. This increase varies by class and level; in general, the relationship is linear as intellect increases. The rate of increase is generally based on the amount of intellect a class is expected to have at a certain level, given by the following table.[4][5]
  • As of 2.4, Intellect will increase the amount of MP5 generated by Spirit.
  • At the moment it is unconfirmed whether intellect increases the rate at which weapon skills are learned. Before patch 2.0 this was listed in the tooltip, but it was removed after that. If you want to level a weapon skill, asking for an Intellect buff or using a scroll never hurts.

Spirit

Main article: Spirit
See also: Formulas:Health Regen, Formulas:Mana Regen, Five second rule

Spirit (often abbreviated SPI) has the following effects:

  • Increases health and mana regeneration. Spirit affects all characters' mana and hit point regeneration rates in and out of combat.
    • Health regeneration from spirit is not active while in combat, except for trolls who gain 10% of their normal health regen in combat from the racial ability "regeneration."
    • Mana regeneration is active in combat except for the five seconds immediately after casting a spell (the five second rule). Some class talents and spells allow some mana regeneration during this period.
    • As of 2.4, Intellect will increase the amount of MP5 generated by Spirit.

With the exception of primary healers, most notably holy priests and restoration druids, most players tend to consider Spirit to be the most useless Attribute, since it is only good for restoring Health and Mana. The Mana restoration is good for most classes, but melee classes (Warriors, Rogues, Feral Druids, etc.) don't regenerate Health during combat (except Trolls); the small increase in Health regeneration is nowhere near as great as restoration through food or bandages.

Others

Secondary attributes are player stats that affect combat directly. The five primary attributes only indirectly affect combat, by contributing to these attributes.

Combat skills

Combat skills are learned by experience, and have a base value capped at the player's level times five. i.e., a level 50 player will have a maximum defense skill of 250 that can be learned from combat experience.

note: Druids weapon skills are always considered max for their level while in feral forms, you will also not recieve increases to weapon skill while in feral form as you aren't actually using it. Moonkin form does still use the equipped weapons however.
  • Defense skill - Defense is a player's proficiency at receiving melee damage. Defense contributes to an opponent's miss rate and critical strike chance.

Physical combat

  • Weapon damage - Weapon damage is a property of the player's equipped weapon. Melee weapon damage is increased by enchants and sharpening stones. Ranged damage is increased with scopes and ammo or arrows.
  • Weapon speed - Weapon speed is a property of the player's equipped weapon and determines the time between attacks with that weapon.
  • Attack power - (Abbreviated AP) Increases damage of an equipped weapon. Attack power is increased directly by gear and buffs with the attack power stat, and indirectly by strength and agility (only for hunters, rogues, and cat-form druids).
  • Ranged attack power - (Abbreviated RAP) Increases damage of an equipped bow, crossbow or gun, but not wands. Ranged attack power is increased similarly to melee attack power.
  • Crit chance - Percentage of attacks that will result in a critical strike. Crit chance is increased directly by critical strike rating, a combat rating, and indirectly by agility.
  • Hit rating - Increases chance to hit with melee weapons by a percentage. Hit rating is increased directly by hit rating, a combat rating.
  • Haste - Decreases the time between attacks. This effectively reduces weapon speed, but has no effect on cooldowns. Haste is increased directly by haste rating, a combat rating.
  • Armor penetration - Reduces the target's armor. Armor penetration is denoted by the text "your attacks ignore X of your opponent's armor."
  • Expertise - Reduces the enemy's chance to dodge/parry by .25% per point of expertise.

Spell combat

  • Bonus damage - (often called spell damage or +damage) Increases the damage done with spells. Bonus damage is increased by buffs and equipment that read "Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to X." Bonus damage can also apply to only a specific spell school.
  • Bonus healing - (often called +healing) Increases the healing done with healing spells. Along with gear and buffs that read "Increases damage and healing..." as bonus damage, some gear also specifically increases only healing done.
  • Spell hit rating - Increases the chance spells will hit their target. Spell hit is increased by spell hit rating, a combat rating
  • Spell crit chance - Percentage of spells that will result in a spell critical strike. Spell crit chance is increased directly by spell critical strike rating, a combat rating, and indirectly by intellect.
  • Spell penetration - Reduces the target's resistance. Spell penetration is increased directly by gear with the spell penetration stat.
  • Mana regeneration - The rate at which mana is restored, both in combat and out of combat. Mana regeneration is increased by the stat MP5, which is an abbreviation for "mana per 5 seconds". Mana regeneration when not casting spells (for 5 seconds at least) is also increased indirectly by spirit.

Defense

  • Dodge - Chance to dodge incoming melee attacks. Ranged attacks cannot be dodged. Dodge is increased directly by dodge rating, a combat rating, and indirectly by agility.
  • Parry - Chance to parry melee attacks with a melee weapon. Ranged attacks cannot be parried. Parry is increased directly by parry rating, a combat rating.
  • Block - Chance to block melee and ranged attacks with a shield. Block is increased directly by block rating, a combat rating.
  • Block Value - Damage blocked by a shield. Increased directly by block listed on the shield and block value from other gear. Slightly increased indirectly by strength.
  • Defense - Increases defense skill. Defense is increased directly by equipment with defense rating, a combat rating.
  • Armor - Decreases physical damage received. Increases your pet's Armor. Armor is always present on equippable items, such as chest pieces and shields. Shields and plate items generally have the most armor, while cloth items have the least.
  • Resistance - Decreases the damage taken from magical attacks.
  • Resilience - Decreases chance to receive critical hits, reduces critical strike damage, and reduces DoT damage. Resilience is increased through equipment with resilience, a combat rating.
  • Health regeneration - The rate at which health is restored, both in combat and out of combat. Health regeneration is increased by the stat HP5, which is an abbreviation for "health per 5 seconds". Health regeneration out of combat is also increased indirectly by spirit.

Other information

Attack power

See also: Attack power

Base statistics affect attack power (which contributes to DPS) as follows:

  • Strength will always contribute to the physical melee attack power for all classes.
  • Rogues and hunters can also use Agility in addition to Strength to increase their base physical melee attack power. Each point of Agility contributes the same as a point of Strength.
  • Druids in Cat Form can also use Agility to increase their base physical melee attack power. However, each point of Strength contributes twice the amount of attack power as does a point of Agility.
  • Agility is the only primary statistic to affect physical ranged attack power (bows, guns, throwing weapons) for all classes capable of using them. This is especially important for hunters.
  • Wand damage is not affected by a primary statistic.

Critical Strikes

  • Agility will increase the chance to score a critical strike with both physical ranged and melee damage for all classes.
  • Intellect will increase the chance to score a critical strike with spells. For a Mage at level 60 the rate is 1% per 59.5 points of intellect.

Dodge

  • Agility will determine a character's chance to dodge an attack. Rogues and druids (as of 2.03) gain a much stronger bonus to dodge than other classes.

Fighting with two weapons, using off-hand, two-handed

See the "Physical Combat" section of Combat.

References

  1. ^ Was 2; changed to 1 in Hunters section of Patch 2.0.1.
  2. ^ World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Hunter Mechanics at official site.
  3. ^ Druids section of Patch 1.7 notes.
  4. ^ Tseric (2005-12-01). Re: 100 int can't be = 1% crit. WoW US Mage forum. Archived from the original on 2005-12-01. Retrieved on 2007-10-03.
  5. ^ Tseric (2006-05-31). Re: 59.5 int per crit for *every* class.. WoW US General forum. Archived from the original on 2006-05-31. Retrieved on 2007-10-03.

External links

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