Just reached 110 last night and was curious if, for leveling, critical strike should be higher than haste? Icy Veins says so but I feel that I’m a bit slower than I should be (ex: I see 3 flashy icons and, due to the gcd, i get around to only pressing 2 (all 3 if I’m lucky).
Thanks!!
Best stat is ilvl when leveling and up till like 390. Ilvl is what gets you into places. Everything else is such minor differences until. You and leveling happens so fast you really dont even need to look at gear.
I remember the first blue and epic I ever got… now gear comes at you so fast you cant even remember which ones were just upgraded 10 minutes ago.
I pay almost zero attention to stats while leveling. I have pawn installed which gives me a very basic outline of what the stat priority is and I use that as my guide. Usually just going to equip the thing with the highest ilevel anyways.
I just finished up the push on this character to 120 and focused on iLvl first and haste second.
The overall impact was incredibly minimal since I had very little choice in drops. I think only one time I got the same ilvl gear with different stats, it was a ring.
I had a similar experience after coming back from a very long break. Hadn’t played since Wrath of the Lich King and all my epics that were Crit were converted to Haste for some reason. However, as I started playing again, the gear that was dropping was mostly Crit and I noticed the playstyle slowed down a bit. That said, I find I do the exact same DPS either way and since I’m leveling… I try not to even worry about gear. Now I’m running with mostly heirlooms, so it’s even less of an issue than it was before.
Yeah, I’m running heirlooms as well. What stat is best for lvl 120 fury warriors (aside from ilvl obviously)? I would assume it would be crit. Also, is there a sweet spot crit % for lvl 120 fury warriors? I’ve heard stacking crit is useless after a certain percentage.
Thx!
There’s a lot to unpack there.
First off crit generally isn’t our best stat, but the azerite trait Cold Steel, Hot Blood (CSHB) helps that, specifically at two traits it gains A LOT of value. Secondly crit isn’t “useless” until you reach 100% crit chance, and that’s assuming you don’t have an ability that increases with crit damage like some classes do.
Crit suffers from something known as diminishing returns. The more you stack the less valuable it becomes because when you have 95% crit chance what’s one more percent chance to you? Conversely when you have 0% crit chance getting to a healthy crit chance is valuable because crits are obviously meaningful. This is not the case for something like haste or most masteries which can stack beyond 100% and still give benefit.
Generally speaking crit’s soft cap is 50% before you really start to worry about the value noticeably diminishing. In the case of Fury you would likely just worry about soft caps like being at the soft crit cap with recklessness and/or infinite fury proc.
If you want to know what to stack properly you want to sim yourself. If you’re just looking for casual play and a general priority system it’s pretty much stack haste and mastery, but if you run two traits of CSHB you should prioritize crit. Our stat values are fluctuating a lot lately (which is kind of frustrating to be honest). The best way to phrase it is that ultimately Fury doesn’t really hate any stat in particular (Vers if anything) so what to stack depends on what your character’s situation is.
for leveling at any level, just equip the higher ilvl