Infraction for Gashnik: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.

• moz · 09/18/11, 11:06 PM

Post: [Cataclysm] Protection Warrior
User: Gashnik
Infraction: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

It's one thing to post something constructive and accurate, it's another to actually post in a civil manner. In this case, you've demonstrated that you can do neither. Nice conviction, but next time actually try and make sure you know what you're talking about before making sweeping generalizations.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Demes

I am talking about Full CTC too. chardev 8 - WoW Cataclysm is a profile with full CTC without using any heroic FL or raggy loot, with BS+enchanting.

that doesnt have full CTC tho. You have 67,97 Block meaning you have .97 wasted block chance.
You do not recieve benefit from mastery untill you reach a full percentage of benefit from the mastery rating.

You get one mastery point for each 179,28 worth of mastery rating.
You get 1.5 block and critical block chance per mastery point.

179.28 / 1.5 = 119.52

You do only get benefit from mastery every 119.52 worth of mastery rating (rounding down)
What this means is that if you're sitting on 4299 (as you are in your example), you've wasted 116 mastery rating, which could of gone to other nonwasted stats, like parry. Or you can change one gem from stamina + mastery to pure mastery so that u reach 4319 mastery, which is only 17 rating above the next breakpoint, leaving far less mastery wasted.
I find it surprising how little of the Prot Warr community (at least here on ElitistJerks) knows about this. This is how mastery works for all classes, and it is extremely important for protection warriors in specific because of the low amount of stats you get from one point of mastery.

I've got work to go to at the moment, so don't have alot of time to talk about mastery balancing, But if you would like to learn more, head over to the boomkin section of EJ as they were the first ones to find out about this, and then proceded to test it.

Also; Essence of the eternal flame is not worth using, even if you're just trying to reach full CTC for show.