Comments on: Future Value of Mastery

By: kraig

kraig — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:25:58 +0000

Does haste effect how well mastery works. i have a ret pally with hit capped haste 12 crit 11.15 mastery 16.38 and expertise is 27

By: Boogieknight

Boogieknight — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:45:44 +0000

Assuming Mastery does what it’s supposed to do, when would be a good time to use Mark of Khardros? I’m assuming that we would link it with Zealotry to get the most damage from the successive Templar’s Verdicts. Would this be correct?

By: Kimina

Kimina — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:53:29 +0000

A major thing to consider with Heart of Solace & Right Eye of Rajh.

Heart of Solace is chance on hit where Right Eye of Rajh is chance on crit. During my last kill on Magmaw World of Logs recorded the following information…

Heartened (Heart of Solace) 5 (Procs) 100.2 (Uptime) 19.3 % #
Eye of Doom(Right Eye of Rajh) 8 (Procs) 80.4 (Uptime) 15.5 % #

This is a pretty solid representation of trinket proc’s. Magmaw is a stand still and dps fight for melee or at least my role in this raid was. This was on the successful encounter and I managed just over 16K DPS in an 8 1/2 minute encounter.

Looking back at similar length attempts resulting in wipes Heart of Solace consistently proc’d less, but produce more then Right Eye of Rajh.

By: Khor

Khor — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:26:03 +0000

@ Soubi – As some have mentioned above, Mastery has already gotten a nerf. This devalues it slightly, aligning it more closely to crit and haste. The lists will be changed once 4.0.6 goes live. Before then, anything could change and the lists would be very inaccurate. So, until we see the changes live, we stick with the current lists, because on the servers right now, that actually reflects current stat priorities.

By: Lykaon

Lykaon — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:28:48 +0000

The nerf to our Mastery to provide less damage per point is significant in my opinion only because Mastery is already so close to Crit and Haste in terms of value (based on the testing above by myself and Varrex).

Honestly, I’d love a world where the only reason to reforge would be to get your hit and exp caps. Equally weighted stats seems like ideal design to me.

By: Bugs

Bugs — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:26:28 +0000

Apperently this has now been nerfed:

Hand of Light (Mastery): A percentage of the damage done by Templar’s Verdict, Crusader Strike, and Divine Storm is done as additional Holy damage. This Mastery now grants a 2.1% increase to Holy damage per mastery, down from 2.5%.

By: Soubi

Soubi — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:55:56 +0000

I have one question here. Khor, when are you going to update BiS gear since mastery got higher priority?
Thanks.

By: Varrex

Varrex — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:46:21 +0000

There will be a new meta with the patch as well as changing the req for the current meta = more blues then reds will change to 2 reds.

On my personal test I found a 1.5-2.5k dps increase leaving most of my stats the same and found a loss when reforging everything to mastery (all though the holy damaged did hit much harder) as the cs time was cut drastically, the lack of haste was horrid and HP suffered as well with the much slower rotation.

My advice would be to keep the stats equal as suggested above or stack haste for a much smoother rotation… The stats seem to be fairly equal in value…

Link to armory http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/stormscale/varrex/advanced

By: Lykaon

Lykaon — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:26:20 +0000

I’m pretty sure the newly announced Reverberating Shadowspirit Diamond will be our new one.

By: Rolann

Rolann — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:57:42 +0000

Khor,

I like this change, but I was wondering if this would change our META Gem? I know u have Chaotic Shadowspirit listed as the best, but I dont want to sacrifice my reds for the 3% crit dam. So as of now I have Destructive Shadowspirit Diamond, it only requires 2 reds. But with the change in the lin up will Fleet Shadowspirit Diamond be considered? I know it requires 2 yellow, but that is better than more blue than red, Im just saying. Feed back please