Dev Mastery

Edit: Disregard. After testing I was able to determine it’s the latter: You will never get less than 30% of the value of the mastery you have (e.g. If you have 30% mastery you will be getting a 9% damage buff when the target is 30% or less instead of the full 30%).

I will leave this up in case anyone in the future ever has this question.


Question for the smart people: Dev mastery was nerfed last year and in the notes they stated “In addition, damage no longer falls off once the target reaches 30% health.”.

Does this mean if I have 30% mastery I will always get full value from it, or does it mean I will never get less than 30% of value of the 30% mastery I have (e.g. I’d be getting a 9% damage buff when the target is 30% or less instead of the full 30%). I probably explained that really bad but hopefully you understand what I am saying. If not let me know and I will try to clarify.

See the notes referenced below:

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  • Devastation
    • Developers’ note: We are reducing the effectiveness of Mastery: Giantkiller and adding a health floor for the damage bonus. The goal is to bring some damage out of Dragonrage due to the talent Tyranny and make Devastation less reliant on hitting high health targets, while still retaining the flavor and gameplay of the Mastery. This makes them less bursty in PvP and allows them to be more flexible in raid and dungeon content. To compensate for the reduced damage during Dragonrage, we’re increasing Devastation’s overall damage as well.

    • All damage increased by 5%.

    • Mastery: Giantkiller reduced by 25%. For example at level 70, 180 Mastery rating now grants 1.5% Mastery (was 2%). In addition, damage no longer falls off once the target reaches 30% health.

I think it means that the damage bonus goes down until your target is at 30% HP and then it no longer goes down but stays at that value. But that’s just me reading what they said and trying to interpret it the best I can.

How is it possible that you caught the question in the post but not the edit at the very beginning that explained that he figured it out in bold font, lol?

Guess I didn’t care to plan my random wow post out enough to suit your Internet standards. What now

Fixed it for you!

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