Originally Posted by Valtiel
I may be missing something, but with the RB 20% increase gone, I don't see how the mastery nerf is a scaling buff. We simply lost 6 mastery points, nothing else changed.
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Since mastery itself is a multiplicitave stat, it doesn't increase liniarly.
For example,
if I have 10 points of mastery from my gear in 4.0.6 and 8 points from the innitial gain, without my gear I would have 8*5.6% for an increase of 44.8%, making my base enrage multiplier 144.8%. After adding my 10 points from gear, which give me a 56% addition, i now have 200.8% from my base. We take 200.8/144.8 = 1.387. Thus, my 10 mastery points gave me a 138.7% buff to my base enrage.
However,
if I have 10 mastery points from my gear, and without it I only have 2, I would see a base enrage multiplier of 11.2% making my base enrage 111.2%. Add to it 56% from my gear's 10 points and we have 167.2. 167.2/111.2 = 1.504. So, my 10 points of mastery would now give me a 150.4% buff to my base enrage.
So each point of mastery now becomes slightly more valuable than it was (with that value weakening as the stat stacks) because each point gives an additive bonus to a percent multiplier. So it scales in that each point of mastery gives us a bigger bonus comparitively than it did when we started at a higher base, even if the result is a lower total enrage multipler.
Hope i'm answering the correct question.