Ok this is my second week as arms. I’ve been looking at some of the warriors on forums here, and stat wise I see higher geared arms warriors going for high haste and mastery. I thought crit and mastery would of been better? I sim myself all the time. I was just curious should I aim for more haste and mastery or crit and mastery? Or even versa and mastery?Also with the Ominous Chromatic essence, which stat would be best attuned for that trinket? Thanks I look forward for any advise.
Stop worrying about the stats and focus on your top gear sims for the most part.
For the most part Arms will generally tend to go for haste as the main focus till ~40% then other stats start creeping as better value due to diminishing returns. Mastery kinda gets boosted when you’re using Blue Silken Lining and the Shield ring, it’s not really something we effectively aim to stack it’s just a benefit of going for a higher max end embellishment and a more defensive ring.
Gems vary based on what offpieces and rings people are opting to use. Since picking up the Shield Ring, i’ve had 180 flip in favouring main haste boots/belt when using a previous haste heavy ring it favoured main crit/haste boots/belt.
Gem wise 70 haste/33 vers and 70 vers/33 haste sim within variance (230dps diff for myself), so i’ve just stuck with the vers major option for the additional DR/Proc damage increases.
OCE depends entirely on what your raid has as open slots, Arms can run any comfortably, but ideally runs Green/Black/Yellow. Having picked mine up last week from a drop, i’ve opted for Black in my raid group (funny because it was also the one i ran in S2) since nobody else really runs it that’s in for every boss fight.
If you’re not really having many OCE users in your raid just stick to an awakened Augury instead which ends up being ~0.5% behind a stacked OCE group sim, but has a higher max so it ends up being better if you’re keen to roll with the RNG or don’t have that group with all buffs available.
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Thanks for the advise, yeah when I sim myself gems and other pieces of gear say haste/mastery does better dps. I just got so used to fury haste being capped around 30% then move to mastery or crit. I’m just trying to squeeze as much juice out the gear I have.
I haven’t really researched pve stats much (I’m more of a pvper with arms) so by no means should you listen to me but mastery might be a little more valuable in situations where you’re using cleave, and I believe the season 4 tier set makes that viable again