Secondary Stat Breakpoints, would someone help me understand?

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So, I know that Secondary Stat’s have breakpoints or whatever you call them where the value begins to have diminishing returns. I understand that is a thing but I don’t quite understand the exact math behind it.

Say a spec’s stat priority is as follows, using Ret Paladin’s according to several websites:
Strength > Versatility > Critical Strike ~= Haste > Mastery

In theory, How bad would it be to make sure as many pieces of gear as possible has Vers on it and then get a mix of Crit and Haste while avoiding Mastery as much as possible?

I know the obvious/easy solution is to simply “sim” gear after every new piece but from a more casual player stance how bad would it be to just target as much vers as possible and then spread crit and haste?

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From a casual perspective you should just equip whatever has the highest ilvl. If you get two pieces of the same ilvl try to follow your best stat priority.

Tier sets will shuffle your stats around enough to where you probably wont hit diminishing returns.

Using raidbots to sim gear is super easy, just use that if you want to min max beyond that

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To over simplify, the % you get off stats starts the diminish the more of it you have

Detailed Explanation

  • From 0 to 30%, there’s no penalty.
  • From 30% to 39%, there’s a 10% penalty.
  • From 39% to 47%, there’s a 20% penalty.
  • From 47% to 54%, there’s a 30% penalty.
  • From 54% to 66%, there’s a 40% penalty.
  • From 66% to 126%, there’s a 50% penalty.
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Mastery is a bit more tricky since the % of mastery you get for a given ammount of mastery is different for each spec. You can use an addon like “True stat values” to see how close you are to hitting diminishing returns.

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On a side note for just Frost Mages, crit past 33.4% is worthless because of silly reasons.

And as Delro said mastery is a bit tricky, some like Unholy DK’s scale very high past 50% while others like MM scale very poorly percent wise.

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Thanks for all the helpful and informative answers!

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