Originally Posted by
NadEFurY
It's good to see that mastery is basically completely worthless in AoE, for the most part, and plays a minute role in ST. In other words, keep that debuff up but never gear for it... lol.
Class fantasy, I just can't, it makes me chuckle at times on how they kind of tried to make the classes special in that sense but ret just ended up ignoring that entire mechanic completely.
I mean, any ret I see with mastery on any piece of gear just instantly says to me that either they were unlucky(if its like 1 or 2 pieces) or a complete tool, like a few guys with the entire set having it on every piece.
I enjoyed reading the OP, what I have concluded through sheer logic for myself already before coming here, is that the talent to really swap with is DH and BoW, rest of them you mostly just leave em as is.
Consecration is unreliable in any movement situation and mostly min-maxing it in real-world is likely going to end up in a loss anyway because we're humans, and you have to account for mistakes. It's a similar thing with ES, which even though got buffed and theorertically yields a higher dps on ST, is still a loss in real-world because of the human factor of having to get it perfect for that thing to work + clunky AF.
Zeal, 100%, FV, 100%
DH vs. BoW. is the question.