The Light and How to Swing It: Secondary stat discussion for the discerning ret paladin

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11-10-2011 @ 11:14AM

Brad Joseph said...

Should Crit and Mastery almost be equal then? My wife plays a ret Pally, and i try to help. I feel like her mastery is in the 18's and crit is in the 8's...or some difference like that. What should those numbers be around for someone with item level 368? I always have a hard time figuring it out. Her dps is typically all over from 10k to 19k depending on the buffs it seems.

11-10-2011 @ 1:02PM

terph said...

Well, that's an interesting question because it also depends on her trinkets and the situation. I had to increase the gap between mastery and crit recently because of a weird issue.

I got a bunch of new gear all in one run including a crit-boosting trinket(Vessel of Acceleration). Stand-alone, my crit rating actually got rather close to my mastery rating. Still more mastery, but not the huge gap that I had before.

The problem was that I also had the Apparatus of Khaz'goroth trinket, which will boost your highest secondary. You definitely want the trinket to pick mastery, but with VoA boosting my crit, I would very temporarily have more crit that mastery. And since I was stacking my cooldowns, the AoK trinket was boosting crit. And it was not good. So I had to juggle my reforging a bit to make mastery have a bigger lead over crit.

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