Originally Posted by
Ryme
Rune is shockingly bad, I mean shockingly in as much as I cannot believe they thought it was even passable, it's embarrassing - even a theory-crafting layman can see that losing the entirety of you your bottom two secondary stats to buff your best one is a terrible idea.
How many times do we see threads with responses that follow a pattern of "X stat increases as Y stat increases", no stat's value is mutually exclusive from any other, they all work together.
As assassination, we'll usually lose all of our crit and haste to gain a lot of mastery - take a second and think about that. Now, for a chuckle, imagine it on classes with meaningful stat breakpoints.