do you really think the use from heroic scales of life was good?
having the valor trinket with so much mastery makes up for the fact the previous tiers valor trinkets were compeltely shit for prot pallies.
combined with the 880 dodge trinkey gives so so much more freedom to reforge/gem the way you want after cap and it also pushes the meta in a new direction as your block drops to lower than 60% and since this tier is mostly magical as you said yourself switching to the 2% magic reduction meta instead of 1% block seems worth it when you can get your block lower.
here is me
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...lther/advanced
with that 880 dodge trinkey it means through regorging and raid buffs i have over 20% dodge and over 20% parry with 58.51% block yes i have over 3kdodge/parry ratings it makes ads/bosses that give a debuff/sunder armour per attack a chunk easier and i am expecting to lose the ratings on my weapon soon and pick up a bloodrinker which should bring them lower than 3k again (after reforging to cover loss).
i stil manage the 102.4 cap when raid buffed and am trying to find more to lose so i can go back to elixirs but at this point 450 stamina beats having to get even more dodge/parry at over 3k ratings where it's so diminished. (as an extra when windwalk + trinket are up dodge goes to 28.8%).
currently wanting to get more epic gems as i had had 2 so far from all DS kills (excluding the one from deathwing himself so 2 orange 1 red so far)