As someone who avoids M+ for the most part because I don’t like timed content, I’m not too familiar with the practices regarding gear sets, secondary stats balancing, etc. for M+. When I read guides for raid I get advice along the lines of “for this class/spec, stack as much of this secondary stat as possible, the others are equally unimportant.” But then I look at the top 50 ranked M+ players on Murloc and they aren’t doing that. Do M+ players generally balance stats specifically for M+ and have a different gear set and stat balance for raid if they also raid? If so, is there a resource I can look at to see the actual stat distributions of some “top raiders” of the same class/spec?
Use Archon. It pulls objective data from logs. I try to avoid guides as they are usually skewed in the writer’s preference of things.
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Depending on the spec, you’ll want 2 sets or you could get away with one. Make sure to also check top logs for stats. Murlok’s design is quite nice and I love using it for M+ talents, I use warcraftlogs for raid talents on each boss. If you filter boss → difficulty → spec you see them in WCL:
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Thanks for the help. I managed to find the Raid and M+ stats for a certain class/spec on Archon and compare to the M+ stats on Murloc. As luck would have it, the M+ stats on Murloc conform more closely to the Raid stats on Archon than the M+ stats on Archon. But there’s not a whole lot of difference between the Raid and M+ stats on Archon anyway.
I’m fairly new to using warcraft logs and I see how to look at talents. Is there a way to see stats as well?
In general, just get the highest ilvl items you can and then tailor stats around those with crafted items.
Most people don’t have the luxury of obtaining more than one myth track item per slot, so just go with what you got and you’ll do fine.
It is never ok to use a hero track piece of gear to try to meet a specific distribution of stats because the 13 ilvl difference will just result in a dps loss any way you slice it