The Basics
With the announcement of Shadow Priest changes in Cataclysm, ample minds developing simcraft began running numbers and theorizing the values of Intellect, Haste, Spell power, Critical strike, Mastery and Hit/Spirit in terms of their increases of our DPS. Initial reports show stat weight priorities have maintained their importance from 3.3.5 but the new stat, Mastery, was seriously undervalued. After several months, Blizzard continuously revamped our Mastery effect; increasing its value as a gear statistic:
Using Best In Slot (BIS) 372 ilevel Items:
Code:
Int Spi SP Hit Crit Haste Mastery
Scale Factors 3.3311 1.4346 2.5707 1.4433 1.4760 1.7975 1.4218
Normalized 1.0000 0.4307 0.7717 0.4333 0.4431 0.5396 0.4268
*accurate to
http://chardev.org/?profile=18129 as of February 10, 2011. Subject to change. Tests are without Focus Magic and Dark Intent.