A little off topic. Recently, Rawr has been telling me that I should be reforging all secondary stats (aside from mastery) into haste. I'm currently sitting at about 4.5% haste, which seems high. Yet, Rawr is still telling me to reforge for it.



I'm starting to become a little skeptical of the whole affair. Can anyone offer me any insight?

Not to (re)open this can of worms, but do we have any consensus regarding capping hit ? Expertise will of course depend on the fight, being more valuable on some than others, but what about hit ?

So far, I was following Rawr and pretty much ignoring hit, but after starting on H-Rag, I'm starting to reconsider it, and moving toward capping hit and expertise.

For Heroic Rag I don't think there is anything more valuable than expertise, with hit a close second. It obviously is somewhat dependant on your strategy but if like ours you're spending most of P2 grouped and unable to shred, it's great right there. Then if you're also doing Molten Elementals (and why wouldn't you with feral burst!) they both help on AoE.

I don't tailor specific reforges anymore, I've just found capping hit and exp then everything else to haste is the best gearing. I did run some non-hit/exp cap haste stacked setups and full mastery even with T12 but they didn't compete on sims at least.

Yeah, that is pretty much the way we do it on H-Rag. And since I don´t use 4T12, hit/exp becomes even more important. Haste is pretty much my second now, with crit being 3rd. Of course, I try keeping haste/crit/mastery kinda balanced, but with haste always a bit higher for my rag trinket proc (forgot the name, but you know what I mean).

I´m less than impressed with mastery on T12. On the other hand, crit is starting to look better and better. I see real improvement for every % I put into it.

This Sunday will be the first time I will try my hit/exp gear. I´m expecting at least 10% overall dps increase.

The reason I don´t use 4T12 is simply. I have heroic (391) offset pieces for all 5 slots. Based on my simulations, I gain more from using those pieces (with 2 T12 pieces).

2P is very welcome. The dps increase will be sizable.

But the 4P ? Humm, I don't know. Considering how much stuff is usually on the ground that we can't step on, I think we will start seeing Feral druids mostly either ignoring it, or simply not using because of the danger of stepping on something they shouldn't.

On the other hand, 4P might become very nice on Alysrazor style fights, where you have to run out to attack low-hp adds. If things say as they are, and we get a fight like that (I hereby predicts lots of adds on T13 fights), our utility will skyrocket.

I put the 2pt13 bonus in SimulationCraft, of course I don't have the stats of the tier 13 set items, but with the stats from the old tier 12 pieces the dps gain from dropping the 4pt12 and equipping 2pt13 is 1.32% with my gear.

In total numbers it's a 386dps increase, from 29192dps to 29578dps.


The SimC results as html:

with 2pt13+2pt12



with 4pt12