Originally Posted by
Dragon9870
Manually double-checking since I found out there was an error in what I was using (and I stupidly let a program do it for me...), in addition to you guys getting different results.
iLevel: 522 (No TF, no upgrades)
Gemming: Red = Potent [Int/Crit], Yellow = Smooth [Crit], Blue = Piercing [Crit/Hit]
Reforging: Mastery > Hit > Haste > Crit
*Helms*
Tier: 81 Haste, 410 Hit (Hit reforged to Crit)
Off: 180 Int, 301 Crit
Shoulders
Tier: 66 Crit, 495 Haste
Off: 421 Hit (Hit reforged to Haste)
*Chests*
Tier: 572 Mastery, 1002 Hit (Mastery reforged to Crit)
Off: 100 Int, 284 Crit, 907 Haste
Gloves
Tier: 80 Int, 449 Mastery (Mastery reforged to Haste)
Off: 191 Crit, 434 Haste
Legs
Tier: 220 Int, 247 Hit (Hit reforged to Haste)
Off: 4 Crit, 547 Haste
Re-analysis:
- Off-tier helm, based on Crit alone, is the best choice.
- There's little to no point in choosing the off-tier shoulder over your tier, even for Frost as well!
- Despite our tier robes having 3 sockets, the Mastery is so crap and the off-tier is sooo good on Haste. If not going by Crit alone, this one might win due to the sheer amount of Haste on it, helping us hit our next plateau.
- Our gloves suck, and the off-tier is nice, but the off-tier helm and chest are better choices. Kinda forced to pick this one up.
- Lots of Haste due to the 3 Potent gems in the legs, but they do, in fact, lose, because of the helm and shoulders being better choices.
Whelp, that'll teach me to let a program do my shit for me. Although, it might be debatable to not get the chest. That's a ton of Haste to get from the Chest for a very small Crit and Int cost (a large Mastery and Hit cost, but... Well, like you said, Hit doesn't mean much, right?)
Until we start doing heroics, I think I might swap my worst tier piece to chest (seeing as how I already have Helm, Shoulders, and Gloves).
Anyways, I apologize for my previously incorrect results! The post's been edited to tell people not to follow my stupidity, lol XD