Assassination: The nitty gritty

[Squirl]

I have a problem with ShadowCraft and Ask Mr.Robot.
I switched to Juju 522/Renataki 522 from valor trinket and juju, just when I did that shadowcraft instantely showed me that I should reforge for haste instead of mastery. From 106% of mastery on raids I dropped down to around 86%. And tbh I felt my dps is lower than it should be...
Should I listen to shadowcraft and reforge to haste? Or should I listen to mrrobot and stay on mastery reforge?

There's extensive discussion on haste vs. mastery somewhere in this thread.

Summary: even in BiS, mastery is probably better than haste with real fight conditions and the RNG involved in RPPM mechanics. However, a ratio of haste to mastery is optimal on average for patchwerk fights. This is probably what ShC is trying to get you to do but you can't just press auto-reforge to get there because ep is not automatically adjusted. The difference is likely ~1% no matter how you reforge though.

There's an option to force mastery > haste in ShC now. Check the Advanced tab (and make sure you adjust expertise appropriately as well, otherwise it will default to .7 and uncap you). This is what I use.

[Kyouke]

Thank you a lot Right now I'm struggling with my dps, shadowcraft makes me hold onto 2pc t14 because the bonus is so good. Even when I have head 496, shoulder 483. Prolly when I finish the legendary chain to get meta I will switch to 522 helmet [if I get one]. But even with 2 pieces of t15 - Shadowcraft still holds the t14 2pc is better. But it's imposible for me to get heroic t14 so what should I do with that?
My armory: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...Kyouk/advanced
Logs from fight I joined: http://worldoflogs.com/guilds/265782/

[Gfunkz]

stay on mastery reforge

[Mugajak]

If you have questions about your specific rogue and not FAQ-styled questions that need answering, like how a rotational mechanic works, please start a new thread to ask. That'll keep this thread free of clutter - 13 pages is long, but 100+ pages is TOO long for people to read. Thanks!

-Mugajak