New Shadow Priest stat priority for Clarity of Power: Haste > Mastery

primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
edited July 2015 in World of Warcraft

Well now AMR is telling me to re-gem and re-enchant all for haste instead of mastery. Anybody have any idea what changed?

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2015

    AMR is likely wrong. Here are the 6.2 weights for CoP SPriests

    Int (1.00) > Spell Power (.91) > Haste (.85) > Crit (.76) > Multistrike (.66) > Versatility (.64) > Mastery (.62)

    //edit: And if you swap between Auspicious Spirits and CoP, your averaged weights are

    Int (1.00) > Crit (.97) > Spell Power (.91) > Haste (.84) > Multistrike (.71) > Versatility (.67) > Mastery (.55)

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian

    I mistyped. It has always been mastery and now it has changed to haste.

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2015

    Your Mastery: Mental Anguish changed, nerfed in strength by 10%. This has reduced the importance of mastery stacking, likely to balance against the Repudiation of War trinket. This would have the effect of buffing haste's value, as you'd be able to get more trinket-buffed DoT ticks in.

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian

    Damn. I had almost 98% mastery. That's quite a nerf for me.

  • RyanFodderRyanFodder Detroit, MI Icrontian

    muahahhaaha - I've been doing it right all along!

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2015

    I think haste was probably the top stat all along. A 10% adjustment to the mastery talent likely isn't large enough to make mastery suddenly drop from first to last place in the stat weightings. More likely was that haste was a solid first, with vers/mast/mult approximately tied after that. Since Mastery was the only stat to take a nerf, then it would drop to a clear last place.

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian

    Update: looks like the mastery change was reverted instead of a 12% nerf to Devouring Plague in late June, right before live.

    We're back to square one on explaining why haste is suddenly weighted higher with the same gear.

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2015

    Looking back at 6.1, Haste was also worth 1.5x Mastery in T17 gear for CoP. So it appears nothing actually changed, rather the weights you were using were outdated.

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