Prot Warrior CM - What's Best? Mastery or Crit?

[Xirek]

Hey there fellow Warriors quick question among those of you who may have already done Gold runs. There seems to three schools of thought currently in gearing Protection and I wanted to know which one seems to be more successful for Challenge Modes. Also, does anyone know if there is a BiS list somewhere?

• Mastery>Crit
• Crit > Mastery
• Crit & Mastery Balanced

I know our damage isn't the best in there but that's never stopped me from getting all successful Gold runs in Mists and it certainly won't here. In addition, I heard that now the zone actually disables your socket? Last time I did a run I had no socketed gear but is that actually true?

Looking forward to what folks have to say regarding this topic and thanks for the time.

Xirek

[Nega]

Crit>mastery

Things will die a lot faster, you'll have more rage, use ravager on the big pulls for the 30% parry bonus. You will take slighty spikier damage though.

[Deleted]

I used Crit > Mastery for extra damage, had some pretty close times a few times and extra damage always helps.
With recent buffs to our damage it probably is even better.

[Deleted]

I went with mastery, did them all well within the time limit. With the recent damage buffs i did more than enough damage

[LUMBERJACKER]

You could go either way, but you can pretty much optimize your gear for CMs to have a really solid balance of crit/mastery anyways. The only thing that will tip it over are your potential choice in trinkets, enchants, and bonus armor slots (rings/neck/cloak). I usually prefer to go crit anyways for the extra damage, but you can usually have ~80% shieldblock uptime for most trash packs (depending on your kill speed) which would favor mastery.