What, something like lasso scales ONLY with versa or crit
You just end up taking even more damage because gems regsrdless of what they are boost your ilvl.
I’ve honestly stopped caring tho
Basically, any gem will make you take more damage and do less; in other words, versa gems won’t benefit you at all… it’s just a flat downgrade.
Probably haste or even crit are safe alternatives.
I doubt crit will help since your crits should be smaller. Haste would at least have the benefit of lowering the GCD/cast times/cooldowns. So depending upon your abilities it may be worth the trade off.
Lasso damage is calculated by Versa? What is the formula for Lasso damage it didn’t come up on WoW head?
How many abilities are calculated by Versa? What I am saying is most abilities are calculated by either Attack power or Spell power. So gems that increase and have actual synergy of the formula will be better.
In some cases yes. However Versa is the most pointless gem because it is only trying to reverse the nerf. So no matter what it’s still a nerf. It isn’t adding “ANY” value.
Only gems that add multiplicative value because of talents or mechanics will see a value. For myself Mastery adds damage and damage reduction that is multiplicative. So it has value still even if gemmed since it’s not a Flat % like Versa.
Don’t blame you.
Explain to me like I’m dumb because I am.
How is crit/haste/m any different than versa.
The benefit you get from any gem wont outweigh the ilvl increase in PvP
Its a raw increase in damage, not sure what else to say about it
you’re nerfed regardless of what you gem and ang stat from full gems won’t reach the ilvls get in PvP
And when you meet someone of equal PvP iLvL you’d be taking more damage full haste vs their full versa.
To combat lower iLvLs sure I could see full haste amped to get spells off before LoS or proc something more
But im not about gem mastery or haste with full versa Amps but gonna leave my gushing set gemless
Any gem will make you take more damage and do less. Any.
But while versa gems can’t overcome the downgrade because its own scaling (not the pvp one) is poor, haste will still reducing your cds and gcd, and mastery/crit will keep stacking. Ofc will depend of your spec wich one you should running.
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Yea but versa isn’t part of the formula right? Like say Judgement does 95% of spell power.
So Versa is a flat % and the nerf is a greater flat % So if you need versa the option is no gems at all. Since the flat % dmg increase and reduction doesn’t outweigh the nerf.
Not true it will if it is Multiplicative with talents and mechanics.
Mastery for me increases attack power % and attack power is calculated with main stat. So Mastery has synergy because it’s multiplicative with my Main stat, procs and trinkets providing an exponential boost.
So Mastery outweighs the dmg nerf since it can exponentially increase the attack and it’s not a FLAT % increase. It also works that way fortunately for damage reduction. So no matter what it’s still beneficial for me to socket Mastery and it’s a buff.
So you must use Gems that have a multiplicative synergy. Since Versa is always static. Lets also not forget Blizzard trolling us with Versa corruption being nerfed. So Versa is by far the worst gem.
Bonus - Human racial is best for stat stacking since the 2% stat bonus is calculated before stat corruptions. So it’s base stat (2%) (amps) and makes a significant difference with these higher numbers now and procs. So every +50 gem is actually 98.43 and get more value from gems from being human.