Originally Posted by
Anonymitylol
Healing isn't about math and theory. Yes, on paper mastery may not be the best stat since for pad damage it's value is beyond the lowest. I am surprised 2 healing in a 10h environment you put mastery so low on the totem pole. When people dip low at any point, mastery is the most reliable stat to bring them to full and it's the only time damage matters. Yes, that damage usually is covered by cooldowns but in an environment when you underheal I don't see why people place such little faith in it.
I've been solo healing garrosh, I've tried many different things(From full crit, balanced, full haste, full mastery, mastery/crit, haste/crit, no lgm) and out of all of those builds the most reliable build I've seen fit is mastery with 10k haste and Eote. Yes due to the damage pattern I don't think there could be a better place for mastery to shine, but it shows the ability of mastery. 90% of the time mastery will not be the best, but it has it's point if the shaman is willing to go outside of what simple math says if the scenario is right for it. Healing != dps