Ever since 8.1, I’ve been messing with gear set ups trying to find the best stats to focus on now that mastery scaling and efficiency has improved so much.
The main point isn’t like to open for discussion is haste, our previous best stat. I have a set up that gets up to 23% haste and I have a mastery set up that has like 44% mastery but 10% haste.
Issue I’m having trouble understanding is that my spell cast times, with a 13% difference, are only 0.1 faster. Isn’t that a little underwhelming? I mean I feel like I’d take a nearly 20% damage increase on empowerment’s, dots, and SS over a measly .1 off my casts. Was it always like this?
With feral I’m think I’m seeing something similar.
It seems like haste bonus isn’t scaling linearly anymore. I think there is now a magic number some where in the 8-12% range that we can get to and after that it’s a waste.
No haste still scales linearly but depending on which addons you use (or don’t) your UI might be rounding your cast times to the nearest 0.1s. If you have 23% haste you will cast 23% more spells. There isn’t much more to it.
(Remember that Haste also increases the tick rate of your DoTs)
Yeah, my dot ticks went from like 1.9s to 1.8s or something. All in all I just didn’t see it outweighing the mastery. Perhaps it just doesn’t feel as good because it’s hard to notice slightly faster cast times where harder hits are very noticeable.
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