Originally Posted by Inaiwae
I am concerned about the fact that expertise would bring me more in both bear and cat unless i am expertise capped. The stats in Valerian post (the second set, capped at hit/exp) is actually possible gear configuration? For me it seems like theorycrafting since i havent seen much expertise pieces in the sunwell loot. Armor penetration affects 80% of your damage, haste affects 40% + procs 2t4 and OOC.
These haste pieces remind me of Pillar of Ferocity.
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I think you need around 88-89 expertise rating to get capped on it. For cat form this may be nearly doable with top end gear since the new trinket is 44 expertise rating. You get another 20 from the T6 boots and 18 or 21 from a neck piece. Now some numbers had it at around 100 expertise needed to be capped so you could add Vashj's belt in for another 25 expertise. Now it may not be worth it to do this considering the tradeoffs (Vashj's belt is significantly worse than the new T6 belt). As there is a nice expertise ring for tanking (high armor, sta and expertise). Haste CAN be good for tanking, but its certainly not a fantastic tanking stat. Expertise here would almost certainly be superior for both DPS and tanking. However, as was discussed in the 2.4 patch thread, it appears a lot of the T6 badge level gear is sup-optimally itemized to make it less appealing than the actual BT/Hyjal loot. In this regard it makes sense they added a slightly sub-par stat to the gear though one that is still useful in both forms.