Originally Posted by
falagar112
Change your gear setup, instead of focussing on mastery, aim for haste. Change your tank cloak to the dps one, it's far better (dodge/parry are wasted stats really) same with your gear which has dodge/parry, try to get haste/mastery dps pieces (horridon leggings as example)
This will significantly improve your dps without too much loss of surviveability (haste is great as a defensive stat too, more haste=more deathstrikes/minute)
You are overcapped on hit and expertise. While expertise overcap isn't that bad, haste is still better dps gain, and overcap on hit is just a waste of stat points.
Get rid of the tier items you're using. No need to get the 4 set, you're better off using the 2 best itemized tier items (head and shoulders) and getting offset gear in the other slots. Preferably haste/mastery items. All the other tier items are terribly itemized, especially your gloves and chest. Dodge/Parry is about the same value as spirit for us (overstatement ofcourse but you get the idea)
Change your weapon rune to fallen crusader. Even if you don't want to get rid of your defensive runeforge, swordshattering>gargoyle. But imo FC is a nobrainer, its quite a big dps increase.
Change your metagem to the dps meta. The only fight I would consider running the tank meta on, is horridon, and I tank that (on 25HM!) with the dps meta just fine. The DPS meta is doing ~10% of my damage, it scales incredibly well with vengeance. Dangerous attacks are timed big hits (snapping bite, talon rake etc etc) and the odds of having your tank meta up exactly when you need it for those attacks is non-existant anyways.
Your trinkets are fine, actually. Don't be afraid to upgrade your 489 trinket, it's still really good, and as you said, your paladin would get the spark before you (and rightfully so) so just stick with these trinkets that you have atm, and when you do get spark eventually you can always swap it out.
I personally raid 25HM - and even I run some haste nowadays, I got less mastery then you have (even reforged some away/changed some gems around for hybrid sta/mastery) and I'm still fine for all the harder hitting heroics. You've gone really overboard on defensive stats. Your mastery is abit overkill and that dodge and parry you run with.. well that's a potentional 5k haste right there!
edit: you can take this a step further, and get the *dps* tier instead. Just reforge out of the crit, and leave the haste/mastery - both the 2 and the 4 set are really good dps increases, and the loss of defensive stats is not that bad. You might actually gain on mastery/haste and just lose out on dodge/parry!