Shadow stat weights?

[hampen555]

Which stat weights should we be using now in the prepatch as Shadow? The only ones I found was on Noxxic and from previous experience Noxxic is pretty worthless, or has that changed and are those viable? Noxxic recommends this:

Intellect: 9.05
Haste: 7.55
Crit: 6.05
Versatility: 4.55
Mastery: 3.05

[Uberkafros]

I can't say about the validity of the values. But the general consensus for pre patch is that Haste>Critical are the bees knees for us now. Especially with AS.

[Djriff]

Please see: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...and-Discussion

Haste > Crit > Mastery > Vers.

[Tunng]

Which stat weights should we be using now in the prepatch as Shadow? The only ones I found was on Noxxic and from previous experience Noxxic is pretty worthless, or has that changed and are those viable? Noxxic recommends this:

Intellect: 9.05
Haste: 7.55
Crit: 6.05
Versatility: 4.55
Mastery: 3.05

Stat weights change per encounter, character, talent choice among several other variables. Although what you have listed is probably a decent rule of thumb. I could see crit being a little higher than it is as listed above, especially given our usage of StM in conjunction with AS. I didn't have the experience of testing all of this on Beta, at all, so I'm still learning as well.

[hampen555]

Yeah, I see, thanks for all the input, I'm just a casual normal/hc raider, but I still like to be optimal, I like to use Pawn and then not really think about the stats and just equip what it says is better. I guess there is no real answer yet how much haste outperforms crit, et.c. Stat weights might not be that important at the moment in the pre patch anyways.

[Djriff]

Haste Definitely out performs crit, even at like 3 targets which is the max sustainable threshold. Crit might move to the top if you have 5+ targets, but at that point you would be searing anyways, so haste would still be needed.

As far as stat weights go, this is what i get:

Int - 1
Haste - 0.97
Crit - 0.88
Mastery - 0.82
Versatility - 0.7

As you add more targets haste, crit, and mastery keep going exponentially. Keep in mind this is with my current spriest gear with the following stats:

Int - 9490
Crit - 31.75%
Mastery - 41.93%
Haste - 29.36%
Vers - 4.26%


Once we have the artifact, things will change a bit depending on if you're selecting Surrender to Madness and utilizing it. Crit will still be important, but most likely it'll be something like Mastery > Crit > Haste > Vers only when using StM with Mass Hysteria traited. Time and testing will tell us more.