Intellect Raises Weapon Skill Faster

[TrueRomance]

The title says it all, I couldn't find a post that was still active on this board that had any thing to the like. A lot of older players will remember this from back in Vanilla as it used to be in the tool tip for Intellect. But it was removed some time ago. However, it still applies even though Blizzard removed it from the tooltip.

However, a lot of newer players will spends hours leveling up weapon skills to 400 when if you buy a intellect set it will take <15 minutes.

Yes, I know this is old for people who know I'm just bringing this out again for people who don't know. Take it as you will.


Testing concluded for Proof:

All testing done with a Hunter with 0 Weapon Skill in Daggers and Unarmed, using an OH stat stick in both so I have no OH attacks. NO Other gear except + intellect was used during the Intellect test, NO GEAR other then the OH of Stamina used during the Non-Intellect test. Only other differences other then the intellect is the Weapon (which both have the same speed and starting weapon skill) and the Off-hand.

All times are the total time it took to reach the benchmarks. For example, with daggers to get to 300 weapon skill it took 6 minutes total. Not 6 minutes after I reached 150. In case there was any confusion.

Test 1 -

Dalaran Dagger (1.3 Speed, no haste, w/ Demon Skull Orb of Intellect): 501 Intellect, tested on Grol the Destroyer

Time to 150 Weapon Skill - 3 Minutes, 11 seconds.
Time to 300 Weapon Skill - 6 Minutes, 37 Seconds.
Time to 350 Weapon Skill - 8 Minutes, 12 Seconds.
Time to 400 Weapon Skill - 18 Minutes, 28 Seconds.

Dalaran Knuckle (1.3 Speed, no haste, w/ Demon Skull Orb of Stamina): 0 Intellect, tested on Grol the Destroyer

Time to 150 Weapon Skill - 3 Minutes, 18 seconds.
Time to 300 Weapon Skill - 6 minutes, 39 seconds.
Time to 350 Weapon Skill - 10 Minutes, 43 Seconds.
Time to 400 Weapon Skill - 59 Minutes, 06 seconds.

I only went to 300 at first, but then since I noticed they were so similar, but I was 99% positive that I saw faster gains, I went ahead and took it all the way to 400. As you can see the time it takes scales with the weapon skill (obviously, thats common knowledge) but the early levels are strikingly similar (only a couple of seconds off, and that could be due to the mob repositioning or what have you) without Intellect but the later levels there is an obvious increase in the duration it takes.

Hope this helps!

[whitekidney]

i actually knew this from before :P

[Overaggro]

Lies....
Stop reposting posts from TBC Becouse at the middle of TBC this was removed

[Slaughto]

Actually, thank you for posting. I was wondering what happened to the correlation of Intellect to raising weapon skill. +REP for you.

[Shykon]

Wow huge thx dude, completely forgot about this! +Rep

[TrueRomance]

Lies....
Stop reposting posts from TBC Becouse at the middle of TBC this was removed

It was removed from the tooltip, but it still exists.

I even said I know people knew about it, but I was telling new people and reminding old players that it still existed.

[Sinistersmog]

Why would they remove it from the tooltip and not the game?

[Trollin]

Because they do that alot

[Strichnine]

Good advice but you could do a table where you have two characters of preferrably same classes and post some results from like 1-300 (in time). One character using intellect set and the other using normal gear.

Do this as proof!

[TrueRomance]

If no one believes me, feel free to test it yourself, a set of intellect gear wont cost more then 100g (at most, and thats pushing it) and you can just notice the difference.

It's been proven also, just google "intellect tooltip weapon skill" and there should be posts with proof, though the data might be dated they haven't changed anything since then.

[TrueRomance]

Good advice but you could do a table where you have two characters of preferrably same classes and post some results from like 1-300 (in time). One character using intellect set and the other using normal gear.

Do this as proof!

Will do, will post it by the end of this evening.

[hocius]

Thanks for the info.

[TrueRomance]

Now updated with test information!

[Kykyske]

Why would you bother though? Like, you can go back to an old instance like Dire Maul, clear it 3 times with your new weapon and be at 400 skill, and make profit from vendor trash anyways. Buying a bunch of intellect gear just to do this is utterly pointless.

[TrueRomance]

Well, this saves time. Not everyone wants to go clear DM like 3 times and make profit, I much rather spend 100g, level it in 15 minutes, and go back to doing whatever I was doing to make more money then running DM 3 times.