Is it too late to farm these? I just heard they were changing them to only work on s1 gear
Wasn’t even worth it earlier in the xpac 
Depends on how you value your time. It’s around 30min a day for 1-2 months to get the full rep and all the sockets.
You gain about 3% in power for those sockets. Also there are green sockets that give you things like speed for each other socket you have. I have base 10% speed + 8% for pet which is pretty nice in arena.
Where did that come from?
Why would you even want to farm them? An extra vers or stat% isn’t going to save you from the 20k non crit MS you’ll be eating tomorrow.
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Buy them off the AH, crafters make them. There’s another that heals you every 5 seconds based on how many SL gems you have. My healer uses that one and it’s not bad, like 2-3% of his healing.
Nope
The SMALL amount of a “benefit” it would provide might mitigate … what… 90 damage?
Not worth the time investment, unless you’re a sweaty neckbeard with no job / family / life outside of wow
I kinda just want some haste if i use bm already 31% vers. seeing as they aren’t going to be useable on s2 gear I prob won’t farm them
Even if it is useable on S2 gear, the time commitment isn’t worth 1%… or possibly less
Is it 3% vers combining all sockets? That would be roughly 5% damage increase with pvp trinket bonus right?
How hard do you want to min/max? They help flesh out your stats but not going to make or break you.
100% not make or break for 2400 glad, prolly not even r1, but those games you lose on mana by like 5k, really does make ya think, if you had those sockets doing 5% more dmg or healing all game would you of lost by 5k mana? jaja probably not, coulda prolly ripped a drink at some point in that game.
Ngl tho I dont think sockets really matter that much, probably wouldn’t even make or break an r1 push.
If you have OTK, Method NA, or skillcapped EU characters with no sockets, I would be willing to bet they’d all get r1 no problem.
It’s 96 stats and if you’re full PvP you’re already hitting DR so it’s about 2.2%, so just over 3% more damage and 1.1% damage reduction.
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3% extra crit makes the earth shocks hit justttt right ^_-
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Don’t waste your time
it’s like 2.5% vers before the 40% trinket bonus
so like 3% increased damage/healing + the gem that brings you up to 10% movement speed
Isnt the first breakpoint for DR stats at 30% iirc? And it’s only diminished to 90% effectiveness between 30-34.9%. 10% drop on 4.9% really isn’t much to worry about at this point.
Think I’m sitting at 33% Vers in my full 226 PvP gear on hunter with 5 Vers gems + speed bonus gem.
Maybe worth for speed gems? But I’m probably not farming it out regardless
I mean they are 100% not worth it anymore.
Honestly the only reason they were worth it in BFA was because of how ridiculously they scaled with corruption stat amps.
If we are talking purely damage gain for MM after 30% versatility mastery beats versatility, even when you account for trinket bonus. The extra 1% DR is what you gain for going versa sockets over mastery.
But the math I was showing was including it for the sake of accuracy. The math will be more and more relevant each season as we approach 20/30% DRs.