Hey I've noticed that in this forum and others related to the game, that people like to suggest that THMs pump INT as well as MND and PIE. But none of the THM spells actually scale with higher INT, from racial base to 170 there is no discernable difference in damage in Scourge, Banish, Scourge II, Banish II, (incidently Scourge/Banish are unaffected by elemental allotment as well) and Shadowsear. I've tested this extensibly and I've had another person who was even more meticulous than myself confirm it.

Maybe it doesn't matter, but to me this really means that INT is basically a stat that only matters to a single combat classes abilities (CON Spells). Sure, INT continues to affect THM weaponskills, but I've always found them lackluster (perhaps wrongly so?)

This doesn't seem like it's really well known by the community, and I've always wondered if this was an intentional design decision by the development team?