Originally Posted by
Saegno
Now I am running into some conflicting numbers here.
I decided to see how lowering my haste down to 9762 and using frost armor would be compared to running the 13.1K haste and mage armor.
In my current gear, raid buffed and running mage armor I have...
29601 Int
90.86% Mastery
48491 SP
25.72% Crit (paperdoll stats, not counting crit suppression)
39.38% Haste
and if I change my setup to use 9762 haste and frost armor+LB/mage armor+NT I have...(The numbers presented are using frost armor)
30571 Int
82.21% Mastery
49558 SP
28.79% Crit
38.31% Haste
So by lowering my build down to 9762 haste I end up with the following changes...
+970 Int
-8.65% Mastery
+1067 SP
+3.07% Crit
-1.07% Haste
I can change a few items to lower the Crit and raise my Haste by 830 but chose to just go off this setup for example purposes.
I can not fathom how a gain of 970 int and 3% crit outweighs the loss of that much mastery(most of which is gained via mage armor) and even haste(with the 830 the loss of haste is small but still.). If the thought is about bomb ticks, I still get +2 LB ticks and actually get +5 NT ticks compared to the +4 NT ticks of the 9762 build.
I'm not trying to discredit the 9762 build, I think it's great if you only have like 10/11/12K haste or so, but once you can reach the 13.1K breakpoint without losing mastery for it(gemming haste) I do not see any logical reason to not swap to it.
If my math is wrong or anyone has any solid reasoning why I am wrong I am open to criticism.