Hello all,
I’m having quite a hard time trying to determine the new stat prio for balance once 8.1 hits. As you may know (or not), mastery is getting buffed a great deal and will boost all spells equally, meaning solar wrath and starsurge will no longer poorly scale with that stat. Another change will be that must-have azerite trait that gives us a few seconds alignement at each 9 starsurges cast, which will make haste even more necessary, especially if that trait is combined with streaking stars, making it a great dps boost.
Now the thing is the more damage starsurge makes the more crit it needs, and since that spell makes up for about the 3rd (or more) of our overall damage I could see crit becoming even more of essence. That being said, no changes seem to have been added to haste, which will appearently still scale just as poorly as it is now.
So, are we going for “few haste, lots of crit/mast” ? Or “enough haste/crit, even more mast” ? Or even “just as much of each” ?
I know it’s a bit soon to even be trying to answer this question, but I’d still like to farm mm+ according to what is coming next since balance is the only spec I have yet to truly gear for.
Thank you all for the insight.