Stat Priorities
Stat Ranking
Single Target: Mastery > Haste = Vers > Crit
AoE: Mastery > Haste = Vers > Crit
NOTE: This is a VERY rough guide for a Stat priority. You should ALWAYS sim your character as you are gearing up!
Stat Outline
Mastery increases the damage you deal with your abilities while Enrage is active. Enrage uptime is easily around or over 90% so this stat is very high value.
Haste increases your auto attack speed, reduces your global cooldown and reduces the cooldown of Bloodthirst, Raging Blow, Execute and (important for Mountain Thane) Thunder Clap. Having access to Rage generating abilities more often allows Rampage to be used more often as well.
Versatility is a simple damage increase and damage taken decrease. This works very similar to Mastery in terms of the damage increase but Versatility scales less aggressively per stat point. This is why it is a lower priority than Mastery.
Crit gives a % chance for your abilities to do double damage. Fury doesn’t really have any specific scaling with Crit so it is a very low priority.
Races
Horde: Goblin / Troll
Alliance: Void Elf / Mechagnome
NOTE: In reality, the difference between ALL races is minimal. Changing race will (most likely) be irrelevant in making particular DPS thresholds in raid fights or for timing keys in M+.
Enchants
Cloak: Chant of Winged Grace
Chest: Crystalline Radiance
Bracers: Chant of Armored Avoidance
Boots: Defender’s March
Legs: Defender’s Armor Kit
Rings: Cursed Mastery
Weapon: Authority of Radiant Power
Gems
There are new primary stat gems that have additional bonuses for each individual gem colour you have equipped in your gear. With the new socket changes, you can only have 6 sockets in your gear at once (2 neck and 2 in each ring).
Due to this, you will have the primary stat gem and one of each colour in the remaining sockets which will look like this:
- Culminating Blasphemite (Primary Stat)
- Masterful Emerald (Green)
- Quick Onyx (Purple)
- Masterful Ruby (Red)
- Masterful Sapphire (Blue)
- Masterful Amber (Orange)
Consumables
Food: Feast of the Divine Day / Feast of the Midnight Masquerade
Phials: Flask of Alchemical Chaos
Potions: Tempered Potion
Health Potions: Algari Healing Potion
Weapon Oil: Ironclaw Whetstone (Swords/Axes/Polearms) or Ironclaw Weightstone (Maces/Staves)