Master stat amps will make honed mind stronger but a proc is less predictable. So some will because it looks better on sims and other will not.
Why is Prot using Light’s decree trait?
Edit - Just noticed the 5 sec for wings guess taking it just for that huh? Seems steep though for an outer ring to take just for that.
5s of mastery for DR, AP, block chance and 5s of, 20% crit chance. It’s awful by itself, but with 3 huge mastery traits it’s a little longer before forced kiting (which may be all the time you need to not kite).
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Just looking over my gear with it just thinking taking Soaring would be a good option instead if you are going Mastery amps with AM but yea 5sec on Wings is nice.
Does the 5 sec work for the Vision Essence on the proc of wings?
No. I’ve been giving the lights decree a shot for the last couple weeks in 17-19 and the 5s is noticeable. Feels like wings last forever and I plan to build full masterful when it comes around. (Probably dropping TD 1 or 2 to make room) I value consistency over spike and paladin has one of the lower healths anyway.
The plan is 2 ITs and the Rest masterfuls to be ultra bulky while having insane AP. Currently bursting 150k with 4 targets without TD ending runs at 60kish dps.
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For Ret and all the talk of stacking Mastery amps now, I wonder: is it also now best to stack Mastery on your gear/enchants/gems to get a bigger boost from the Mastery amps? Or do you still need a balance of the other secondaries?
I kinda think a haste/Mast build would seem appropriate. It’s always seemed odd to me that we NOW need to stack Crit. I am in the middle of figuring this all out and I currently don’t have an answer.
But to just roll with the logic: since we rely on holy damage as our main source of damage, wouldn’t it follow that we should still be stacking mastery? I’m currently at 32% and wonder what my holy damage would look like if that number was closer to 50% WITH Haste being higher than my 23% currently.
but I have essentially LFR gear and won’t be able to get much higher than that anyways.
Really unsure about that, I would gather going anything less than 20% for crit and haste is likely a bit no-no. And then vers be what it is.
Or the build that I was hoping would takeover, which it sort of does (ineffable truth in all slots), and have a crit/haste build. And the hope to have high wing-uptime and relying upon avenger’s might to get your mastery.
I certainly agree that anything less than 20% crit wouldn’t be satisfactory. As far as the haste is concerned, I think getting that closer to say, 30% would be pretty great along with a 50% Mastery increase. THEN, when you pop wings, your mastery/haste would be off the charts, especially if your talented into Inq (haste buff).
You would almost always be popping wings! lol
Not gonna lie: a big IT build to get a very high uptime on wings does sound ridiculously good. I feel so powerful with wings going that the idea that you could have it available more than 1/3 of the time seems outrageous. I just worry that it would then get nerfed (of course, I also worry about that for Stat Amp stacking that is becoming so popular now).
At this point stat amps should be nerfed (corruption amount increased?), especially in arena with vers. But really won’t be surprised if blizzard chooses to ignore it, or even fix it. Can never tell what the hell they are thinking.
Anyone do any testing on uptime/proc rate of honed mind?
Previous testing showed that it was 3 PPM. Since it lasts 10 secs, that means around 50% uptime.
I run 2xR3 Honed Mind and 2xR1 IT with 6% crit Corruption. I like it more than the 24-30% TD I would stack. My numbers for AoE don’t spike to 800k but that was so random and usually ripped aggro from tanks causing survival issues. Using these instead I average high at the end of M+ and also do much better with boss fights since TD would sometimes just miss stuff or go off and pull a pack of mobs if you can’t face the way you want to.
I’ve looked at Masterful as well but it doesn’t appear to add as much value to dps compared to haste, which is odd. I have about 30% crit, 26%haste and 51% mastery before cds and procs. With all that rolling I sit at around 71% haste and 105% mastery. Wings is up a lot with this setup and I almost never have nothing to build and spend HP.
Well they are nerfing versatile amp by 33% that is a bummer for just about everyone except Locks who don’t need it to be tanky and dominate. At least I been working on a Mastery build for some time and now they are up.
Wow that is crazy haha. Wish I had more corruption resistance I am only at 45% increase wish I could use more.
Must be crazy to have 75%