Originally Posted by Quigon
I don't think much other than morogrim in Tier 5 benefits greatly from gear other than raw unadulterated stamina. Especially KT - where surviving a pyroblast if things don't go perfectly is quite useful.
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Raw, unadulterated stamina is more viable in T5 instances because there is so much greater a margin for error that the benefits of the correct itemization are not as easily seen. The harm in being in the oh shit state (subset 3 of state 4 in most T5 encounters is very limited and generally easily recovered from). However, that's not to say it's ever optimal to be in that state. Given the nature of bosses like Leo and Vashj, with all of the randomness in the encounters, I would agree that most encounters are fine with just stam stam stam. But pure stam stacking for harder hitting bosses is still a mistake, and the math is there.
What is interesting is how much expertise dominates just about everything. To give you the scaling relative benefit, for example, even the encounters where stam can be a huge help (KT, Vashj), expertise off the bat generally has a higher rate of return than the first extra point of stam.
The general rotation of desired is expertise to cap, then some stam up to a point where either hit or avoidance pass it in value, back to stam, then to something else with higher value, back to stam, etc..
Expertise has a very powerful static return of keeping people out of the bad state in addition to threat enhancement. Expertise mitigates spike damage better than any other skill as well.