Disc Priest stat question

PVP Arenas
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Hello!

I have been learning about soft caps and how they work in PVP. I was wanting to know if any experienced/knowledgeable players could offer some guidance for my stats.

Currently, I main disc on my other toon and my stats in pvp are:

Crit - 5%
Haste - 21%
Mastery - 57%
Versatility - 41%

It is my understanding that crit/haste/versatility specifically have soft caps at 30% and have significantly less value past that. Mastery has a seperate soft cap depending on the class.

If this is correct, than is it worth dropping some of my versatility to pick up more mastery/haste?

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Yes

You don’t need more than 30% vers on disc. Mastery is way more healing

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The first DR is at 30% of a stat, or for mastery lets just say 30 mastery and not 30%. This first soft cap of 30 mastery is 5400 rating. The % display is the only thing different for each class as 1 mastery may not equal 1%. For disc priest, 1 mastery is 1.4%, putting first DR at 42% and the second DR at 54.6%. After first DR, 1 mastery (1.4% mastery for disc) will instead take 200 rating instead of 180, and after second DR will take 225 rating instead of 180.

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crit is next to useless being that it’s got a 50% nerf in pvp and unless your class has inherent synergy with crit (disc doesn’t) it’s almost never good

haste for fluidity- the more haste you have, the faster you’re spending mana to do effective healing. any millisecond you spend not using GCDs reduces the effectiveness of haste by a considerable amount

vers is the best stat for damage reduction, but disc is already pretty durable. vers is good for damage too, though your role in an arena is to sustain a healthbar. i wouldn’t go below like 25% on this

mastery will always do more healing than any other stat because it only does healing, you can’t “misuse” mastery and the only situation where mastery won’t have any use, is a game where you didn’t heal

i’d allocate 10-12% of your vers into mastery and keep haste around where it is, if shuffle’s your main concern maybe allocate more vers into haste instead

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if you google secondary stat DR you can see the image with rating thresholds. personally, for me, I can’t play on less than 14% haste and 60% mastery. vers always kinda falls in line unless you intentionally craft pieces without vers. so, 14H, 60M, 30V is pgood season over season for me.

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Ill do you one better and just copy a table I made a few days ago in a different thread.
No DR 1st DR 2nd DR 3rd DR 4th DR 5th DR
Vers 205 227.78 256.25 292.86 341.67 410
Crit 180 200 225 257.14 300 360
Mastery 180 200 225 257.14 300 360
Haste 170 188.89 212.5 242.86 283.33 340
30% 39% 47% 54% 66% 126%
Vers 6150 8200 10250 12300 16400 41000
Crit 5400 7200 9000 10800 14400 36000
Mastery 5400 7200 9000 10800 14400 36000
Haste 5100 6800 8500 10200 13600 34000
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look at you being nice

there you go, OP, the DRs after a rating threshold appropriate to the UI % reading

all in one