Originally Posted by
Manaokungpao
So, pretty much immediately after looking at the armory pages of both mages, I noticed there are some pretty poor choices in gear. Each mage has more than a few pieces that are essentially nothing but "intellect buffs" because the secondary stats on those pieces are essentially useless. For example, any piece with haste multi / crit multi isn't that good, Usually, you can afford to have a piece or two that are itemized that way and get away with it, but in regards to Dhabius' crit haste trinket and Baah's crit haste weapon and crit multi offhand, those items (weapons and trinkets) have huge impacts on damage. So when you have really bad trinkets or bad weapons, you'll notice a rather significant swing in your damage when you can get your hands on some better ones (this is under the assumption they are fundamentally playing the class correctly). So because of the current gear choices that each mage has made, they are both suffering from a massive lost of mastery. My mage, whom of which I have stopped raiding on earlier this tier, was just at 703 ilvl as we were pushing into mythic HFC and had 80.56% unbuffed mastery. Dhabius has a somewhat reasonable 64% but Baah has a extraordinarily low 52% mastery which can have pretty massive effects on their damage. So, a simple fix in their gear choice can have a pretty good impact on their damage.