Average Spellpower for level?

[Drommon]

Are you running with the 80 warrior and 78 priest?

Yes I am. And I still have trouble with the Nexus bosses.

What I noticed on my mixed team leveling from 0-70 was that each time my caster DPS got a new rank of their "spam" spell I would have mana problems for a few levels, ie new Shadow Bolt rank on the lock, new Frostbolt rank on the mage, etc.

If you feel that your mana pools are the problem then try to find more INT gear with decent DPS. I doubt whether any in combat mana regen gear (or spirit) gear will be able to make a difference without gimping your DPS severely.

IMO right now INT gear doesn't help much. I think it is spellpower I need, but I cannot prove that atm. So I am going to try that route.

You can always use some cheap enchants (if you haven't already) to extend your mana pools and up your DPS.

Tried cheap enchants. It isn't enough. I even added pots but those just meant dying later than sooner.

I suppose the question is can you tweak your DPS enough to drop the boss before you go OOM or can you find gear to increase your mana pool enough to drop the boss before you run OOM. You will always have a trade off between DPS and mana pool though.

I suspect so too, but I am going to go the spellpower route and see what happens.

If you are not questing you will also be missing out on the quest item rewards and I am not sure if the BoE greens is of similar quality.

Apparently the frostwoven set is better than the quest rewards I have picked up so far.

I am going to try the spellpower route to see how it goes. It's only gold and it's worth doing just to learn what would happen. It may turn out that INT and Spell Hit is the way to go even if the cost is very high gold wise.

And I could be wrong about all this.

Your first remark is interesting. I had thought originally that I would have no problem with the instances while running an 80 warrior and 78 priest. The priest has a healing rotation that tops off the party. On trash everyone comes out with max health. On UK bosses I may lose 0-1 dps guys due to miss timing. The Nexus bosses, well the order of dying goes like this. Warlock, Mage, Druid, Priest then lastly the Warrior. And the warrior will fight for a LONG time before he dies. I got Anomalus down to 6k health before wiping. I tried the mage boss, but she just wipes the floor with my toons with that stupid bouncing throw she does So I avoid her like the plague.

Drommon

[thinus]

Yeah, with the 80 warrior and 78 priest I would have thought the instances would be easy. Very interesting.

I know back in the day leveling my mixed team and running instances with my mixed team it was really difficult to get my setup right so everyone stays alive and I put out enough DPS to kill the boss. Losing a DPS would usually mean a wipe unless the boss is really low already. The 5x shaman teams were just blowing through all the content with their raw damage output. Trading 2 DPS for a tank and healer really makes you work for the boss kills.

Then I conform and roll my 5 shaman and I get to WotLK and I cannot just brute force the bosses down. I had to take a few months off to regroup lmao.

[Drommon]

I put all my dps toons in the frostwoven set gear from the tailoring profession. Doing this significantly rasied their dps. Before they were doing a bonus damage of 550-750, now they have 850-950. Their DPS before was 800, now 1000. This made enough of a difference to down Anomalus. I ran out of mana right at the end, just in time for the boss to die.

Finally down a nexus boss. Now for the other 3...

Drommon

[thinus]

Gratz and good luck )