I previously had about 2/3 int, 1/3 strength on my mage. Now after the patch, I've been playing with the free respecs and seeing how little it seems to affect health by dumping ~50 points into strength.

I've tried to test this out myself by running the first part of plasma pyramid solo both specced all int, and a mix of int/str. but I haven't really been able to figure out much difference.

I'm leaning towards going all int for the extra mana pool now that the ability cooldowns are reduced.

Is this a good plan or am I missing something? I usually play in a group and I want to at least slightly mitigate the amount of potions I have to use. I want to keep using the mage gear (int/staff/wand etc.)

thanks for any suggestions.