You need to read more carefully, my friend.
And that's exactly what I said. You agree with the functioning**, since you applied it in BRF, and even on Vehlari while progression. But, you now think it was a mistake on Vehlari - that this functioning wasn't beneficial on that boss.
Didn't you read the line just below the section you quoted? What's the point in quoting half of what I wrote and argue on it, whilst the line right below says what you just said?
**The mechanics behind Mastery damage mitigation vs Crit damage mitigation.
Not to the point that they are no longer dangerous when you have low HP (50-%) and/or the Aura of Malice. The keyword here was "dangerous".
What has this got to do with anything? You seem to think I somehow said Externals weren't a factor in the fight.. No, I am not saying/implying anything remotely close to that.
I say Externals don't change anything when it comes to the functioning of Mastery damage mitigation on the whole of that fight. The only way this could be is if you are able to smoothen incoming damage with CDs the whole of the 2nd half of P2, and P3 (=>the dangerous part of the fight). That would indeed remove the primary benefit one might get from a Mastery optimization (that same benefit you still agree was productive in BRF).
But obviously, this isn't happening any time soon - my raid sure didn't have enough CDs for that.
Quite frankly, to me that distinction is inexistant. Also, this implies your knowledge on the matter is not limited, and that you have all the answers. So far, I haven't seen any objective reasoning behind that claim.
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I'm sure you know the difference between inquiring about one's reasoning behind said optimization versus plainly claiming that optimization is bad or not optimal enough.
Was that an actual order? Because I'm very stubborn when I'm ordered to do anything really...
If you truly are then you might want to look up Cyclonus' work. It regards Glad optimization but you can learn a lot from it when it come to Prot DPS. His blog:
http://gladiatorsresolve.blogspot.be...tor-guide.html.
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@Forim
Here are results of a quick Sim run. It might help picture how Haste/Multi become better for DPS once you exceed a certain percentage of Crit:
Patchwork 1-target in 738-ilvl gear with EDH+Plume.
You can dl the full result HTML page here:
http://www.filedropper.com/edh-resultshtml
(standard SimC options and default bnet import text were used for this).