Hi, from what I’ve read Mastery was “hot fixed” to help put us Arms Warriors. Though ranked low in guides such as Icy Veins, I’m gasping at my over 170% with only a +99 after my 84 lvl neck and 9 lvl cloak. How could it mathematically even be so high? Also, when I look up really high ranking players like Vackenn, they’re all under 40%…how in the Halibut is that possible when they have high lvl cloaks and necks along with significantly more added MST then I have? Am I doing something wrong and is having such a high amount holding my DPS back?
Well Vackenn is fury specced and I couldn’t find Halibut unless he’s EU.
So wow…where to start? He/she has another spec other then Fury called Arms which you can see if you click the Arms Icon. Second, Halibut was used in deference of an actual curse word…I’ll let your imagination explore the possibilities.
Either way, thanks for not addressing my basic question. I watched another Prot Warrior tank our Heroic Nyloth pug and she too has an extremely low Mastery versus mine… so assuming all three warriors specs mostly have the same stat priorities, I’m still baffles how and why I’m over 170%…???
It doesn’t change his mastery value though. It’s not updating the % based on swapping specs, you’re still just seeing his fury’s mastery % just like you see with mine
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/zuljin/marthul
Which has 1392 mastery which is over double the amount you have while under a good four times less percentage.
I just misread from my phone. Chillax.
Because mastery scales at different %s for different specs and classes. Unless they changed MW monks since Legion I think mine had like 400% when I dinked around with him for mage tower.
And for the record I addressed your question by pointing out that he was in fury spec which was supposed to clue you into the fact that you were seeing his mastery % of Fury, not arms, but I guess you’re not aware of how mastery scaling works. Go swap to Fury and be baffled by the fact that you’ll drop to 15.97% mastery.
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This thread is so confusing.
Mastery is higher on arms warriors than any other spec. All specs for all classes scale differently. Fury and Arms don’t stack the same stats, sim yourself to know what is best.
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The scaling of Mastery is dependent on the spec, unlike crit, haste and vers which is the same across all specs and classes.
Note that when I mean by scaling, I mean the conversion between stat to % bonus. Not stat weights and whatnot.
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I guess I’m used to Mastery being a major stat for Prot. I’ve read on Icy Veins that that the stat priority is DPS>Haste>Crit>Mast>Ver>Str and so I’m going about it all wrong looking for STR then Crit. So when that site has Mast so low in the priority, hopefully you can see why I was freaked out having such a high amount.
Early on learning M+ playing Arms I would literally run cleave and had mastery on most of my gear and that probably carried my dps, letting me focus on the other things going on. Once your gear gets better you notice how important haste is, other attacks get used more often while deep wounds is still doing all kinds of hurt.
It’s probably my main gripe about Arms, how it should be slow and smart strikes while Fury would counter as reckless, fast strong attacks, in reality Arms stacks haste to make it closer to button mashing like Fury.
Its fun playing M+ as Arms though and to answer your question, Mastery tapers off before deep wounds gets out of control. If the Naga Attack WQ ends up giving you 1000 mastery have fun, that’s when deep wounds will be doing more than half of your damage like you thought could happen.
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