Hello world. This is an intervention. You need to know that I care for you, and that I can’t bear to see you pass up on opportunities that would increase your ability to hurt things.
Since before Cataclysm came out, a lot of work has been put into figuring out our stat weights. The numbers are out, and we can adjust to them. Unfortunately, I find that some people cling a little too tightly to these numbers with little perspective to reality.
Mastery is not a bad stat for us. It is certainly our worst stat, but that doesn’t mean that it is bad. Strength is a bad stat for us, as is agility and expertise. No matter how the numbers pan out, mastery does still make you hurt things more.
Imagine yourself as the ugly, fat kid in school. You might really, really like to gety our hands on one of those hot haste/crit girlfriends, but you are not excactly in a position to be picky. There are not many girls around, and most of them have at least some amount of mastery.
But that’s fine! You can still have fun with mastery, and your primary concern should be to find a nice, down to earth girl with a high ilevel. I mean item. I think I’ve confused myself with my metaphor.
The point is, there isn’t excactly an abundance of gear to choose from. If you have a choice between an item with a higher item level, which usually means more intellect, its fine to swap out an int/haste item for a higher level int/mastery item. It will have more mastery than the previous one has haste, and you can reforge some of the mastery and cash in an upgrade to your spell power.
Of course, if your choice is between two items of equal ilevel, one with crit and one with mastery, you would naturally go for the one with crit, even though crit is only slightly – ever so slightly – better than mastery. But if you are comparing a haste item to a mastery item with more spell power, you should not hesitate to take the mastery and reforge it to haste.
Don’t deny yourself an upgrade because you are worried about mastery. Go get that girl!
- QQ
