Originally Posted by
Dracodraco
Sure, but it's exactly all of those things that makes haste such a wonky stat to simulate. In reality, the chances that you manage to squeeze out another cobra shot due to higher focus regen, or an extra KC due to lower CD from .5% haste more is extremely small, but SimC sure as fuck is, on average, going to do that. Part of it gets combatted with the random duration simulations nowadays, but it's still a huge red cross to me to see haste beating Mastery when there's little logical reason for it to.
I concede, for the Aspect build, there may be something to it, though; without KC resets from Killer Cobra, and with the Aspect perk not scaling with anything but Versatility and Agility, Mastery loses value, while Haste retains it (and conversatively; If you're running Killer Cobra, haste loses value during BW due to the constant resets of KC meaning the lower cooldown on it has little to no effect, and Dire Beast being worth less to cast inside of BW due to not stacking the set bonus than outside means the higher proc rate/lower CD is also objectively "worse" than having your abilities just do more damage).