So much of this gear drops in dungeons and can also be bought from rep vendors. Why? I’ve never seen this be anything but the lowest stat prio unless you are tanking or doing pvp but there is pvp scaling gear…and cloth cant even tank. If you are a dps role vers gear should not drop.
for blood dk its low on priority list
vers might be the new lvling spec till replacements
and vers is the new resistance perk
i would say its for people who are min/maxing their stats. Towards the end of the season, you start to need versatility to increase your heals or dps. Use the addon True Stats.
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Some specs have had it top on occasion, it’s also really really good for pushing m+
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I think it’s still left over from days gone by.
Like Spirit and such.
It seems more of a filler stat than anything.
It’s because it’s a mundane stat that doesn’t have balancing issues. A character with high levels of crit becomes a wrecking machine, but a character with high levels of versatility does moderately more damage, and becomes moderately more difficult to kill.
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i doubt it would be used to min max towards even the end of the xpac i could be wrong but that seems unlikely and you take so much damage in high level mythics that i cant see 10 to 20 % more dmg reduc being that great, you either do the mechanics and stay out of stuff at that point or just die
It’s an excellent stat if you’re doing challenging content where reducing the damage everyone takes actually matters.
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It’s not. It’s a PvP stat which also happens to be sometimes useful in PvE.
It was introduced in WoD.
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It’s not a PvP stat.
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Outlaw and subtlety rogues.
Windwalker monks.
Demonology warlocks.
Didn’t check every dps, and I ignored tanks/healers. But these were the ones that I fonud.
Because it is the most basic form of PvE survival and damage. There’s no class or specialization that doesn’t want it, even if there’s plenty that want other stats more because they do more for them. But the ones I listed above are ones that have it ranked second or third best stat (with the best stat being primary stats).
In short: because it is a good basic stat that allows for interesting theorycrafting to be done since it allows people to have access to a flat damage increase and decrease. Meaning that if you are doing more difficult content, it is possible that you want more of it simply because of how it overall impacts your survivability but having it be purely that is boring so… it also increases your damage.
Versatility is the best stat in the game
Mop, not wod
Same with mastery. Equally useless to a number of specs. I’ve had so many mastery drops in heroic dungeons this week, and I don’t care for any of it.
Just optimize stats as best you can.
and it replaced resilience stat
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Vers is yummy for bear durid c:
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Vers is ALWAYS useful, though. To everybody.
There are cases where stats aren’t useful at all (Haste for Brewmaster, for example).
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I miss multistrike 
Yeah yeah, you’re right.
My bad, my memory done gone dude.
I PvPed the entirety of MoP too I should have known better.
lol!
Haste and crit are what makes this game fun.