Anyone running a mostly haste or mostly mastery build? How does it feel?
Haste 100% for UH. Since they nerfed our rune generation, it feels a lot worse going full mastery.
Frost is Crit=Mast>>>>>>>>>>>>>>verse=haste
UH is ilvl>all, with a slight favor towards mast and haste at about the same rate.
Stat weights are an inherently flawed approach to gearing. You should always sim as the value of each secondary changes depending on the amount of other secondaries.
Taking the boilerplate reason why stat weights aren’t 100% accurate is missing the forest for the trees. It’s still a useful tool. One tool isn’t your whole toolbox. Yes, regular simming is required for total optimization, however both Unholy and Frost have incredibly skewed stat values, and I’d bet a month’s wages that every single UH DK wants haste/mast on everything, and every Frost wants crit/mast on everything. Addons like Pawn can give you a quick at-a-glance evaluation of an item, and are generally pretty useful for gauging sidegrades or upgrades with worse secondaries.
There is a time for comprehensiveness, and a time for fast evaluation. If you have time to sim an item between it dropping and distribution, be my guest, sim before you roll on gear.