Seems like every class I play, when I looked up guides and strategies, Mastery is always ranked as least important.
What class/specs in the game, if any, prefer to get Mastery as high as possible before other stats?
Boomkin!
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Boomkin & DK for sure do.
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Protection paladins want around 20-25% haste and the rest into mastery/vers. Currently sitting at:
-22 Haste
-20 Mastery
-18 Vers
I think affliction locks prioritize mastery maybe spriests too?
Not certain of BFA rules remain but resto Druid loved mastery for 5-man content.
I stack mastery for Guardian.
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All the the warlock specs value mastery.
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Howās it going
I could go for some mastery right about now
Vers = Crit = Mast for Brewmaster.
Anything But Haste.
Dh needs at least 30% master to be competitive right now and then i stack versatility. Also mastery very good for protection palls. if stacked with versatility and you can get up to 55% mastery you almost block everything possible. These worked for me. My DH had a thing that boosted mastery in wild. My DPS went over 2k when my mastery hit 60%.
Now thatās interesting. Why is haste so much less useful for them?
Mastery increases both damage and distance for MM Hunters. I think Crit edges a bit ahead according to sims. Crit though, will not improve cast distance.
No spec gets a stat āas high as possibleā relative stat value means that the higher one stat is, the more valuable other stats are relative to it. A lot of specs do have mastery as either their highest or second highest priority stat in a vacuum though. Off the top of my head thereāsā¦
Affliction, Shadow, Balance, Unholy, Destro, Demo.
Also worth noting three of the four covenants (Night Fae, Venthyr, Kyrian) have massive sources of mastery in their soulbind trees. Stats from external sources, such as borrowed power, trinkets, or even in built class procs tend to devalue that stat, because you already have some of it before taking into account anything else.
Holy Priest.
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Didnāt they say when mastery was first announced it was going to be like a ātuning knobā for class balance?
Arcane Mage
UH DKās for sure. Lots n lots of it.
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Unholy DK also prioritizes it
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I believe itās due to the talent that gives up to 15% haste based on your stagger.
Itās not that brew doesnāt like haste, they do; theyāve just had large amounts for free for years.
They actually have one of the nicest interactions with stats of all the specs I play. Each secondary does something good.
Haste - more brews, energy
Mastery - more dodge, a pretty good mitigation
Crit - more powerful heals recieved
Vers - obviously
Elemental Shaman did at some point. I think their guides usually recommend some weird ratio of stats at this point though, and I donāt know where it stands because I donāt play the spec right now.
Regardless, I think itās worth pointing out that Mastery was initially described as a sort of tuning knob Blizzard could fiddle with to adjust a specās performance without making larger changes. Itās probably okay if it ends up as a middling āmehā stat with that in mind.
Of course then we ended up with Versatility, which is the same thing but global. Kinda silly to have 2 āboringā stats that mostly just tweak flat damage/healing numbers.
Crit affects tons of procs across the board.
Haste affects CDs and the GCD, not just cast times or swing timers or whatever.
Mastery on top of that is more mundane, but is at least unique to each spec.
Versatility has no place as a 4th IMO. Just gut it. And donāt replace it with Multistrike. Itās a neat concept, but for most specs, its just Alternate Crit. Elemental Shaman had more going on for it, but thatās because it wasā¦ literally their mastery before they changed it.