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A good way to watch this is to hover over Mastery in your Character sheet. It nets out your Mastery points into rating. Each .5 points of Mastery rating is significant. If you are at say 3.21 Mastery rating, probably not much you can do with it. However, if you are at 3.48 Mastery rating or say 3.98 Mastery rating (a scant 3 points away from the next significant increment), it may be worth looking at reforges, gems, etc. to see if you can work those 3 points in.
I would expect the relevant breakpoints to be every 89.64 rating rounded up: 90, 180, 269, 359, 449, 538, 628, 718, 807, 897, 987, 1076, 1166, 1255, 1345, 1435, 1524, 1614, 1704, 1793 . . . but again you can absolutely confirm by hovering over mastery rating and seeing if you have crossed a 1/2 point threshold 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, etc.