I can't find a thread or anything about the supposed mastery buff.......i see ppl arguing about how big or small of a buff it is, but NO ONE is saying what the buff actually is.
I'd appreciate any help, thank you.
I can't find a thread or anything about the supposed mastery buff.......i see ppl arguing about how big or small of a buff it is, but NO ONE is saying what the buff actually is.
I'd appreciate any help, thank you.
Mastery is going to buff starsurge and our empowerment damage more, before it was half the value of the damage increase to our dots.
•Mastery: Starlight Increases Moonfire, Sunfire,, Stellar Flare, Starsurge, and Starfall damage by [ 154% of Spell Power ]%. Increases the damage effects of Lunar Empowerment and Solar Empowerment by an additional [ 154% of Spell Power ]%. Druid - Balance Spec. Druid - Balance Spec.
Basically doubling the base mastery, not how it scales. It's value will slightly change if you're simming / using Pawn, but I don't expect it to gain value over crit or haste this tier.
It's on the front page with everything else that comes from the PTR
No, they changed the scaling. We still have the same 8 base Mastery every spec in the game has had since Mastery was introduced. The only thing Blizzard ever changes for Mastery is the scaling.
Aside from removing the SS and SW penalty, they also increased overall scaling by 10%.
You can already run sims against the 8.1 changes (Druid discord provided override strings to use in Advanced Sims). Already ran some against myself for Single Target and the difference is massive:
Current Simmed Stat Weights:
Haste - 2.07
Intellect - 1.80
Critical Strike - 1.75
Versatility - 1.74
Mastery - 1.38
8.1 Simmed Stat Weights:
Haste - 2.16
Mastery - 2.10
Intellect - 1.88
Critical Strike - 1.82
Versatility - 1.82