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Old 05/19/07, 3:00 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by SindirHH View Post
Also couldn't we also use one colored gems to determine the way that blizz assumes the values to be.
Items are allocated stats (to varying degrees of accuracy) according to a well-understood formula: http://www.wowwiki.com/Formulas:Item_Values (a bit out of date, but good enough for this purpose)

From this we can see that 1 int is allocated equivalently to 1.5 sta, ~2.2 +healing, etc, 0.2mp5, etc. You can work out the total value of each gem taking into account the slight diminishing returns on stacking a stat, but I'm not sure I see the point - the equivalencies used in making items don't apply to actual players, just like I don't stack STR gems on my mage.
 
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