This is something I recently noticed when I began building my paladin for Mastery. There is a grand total of 4+1 mastery based trinkets for Strength classes:
Vial of Animated Blood, which has base mastery on it, and a powerful on use STR effect,
Prism of Dark Intensity, an ilvl355 drop from Warbringer Yenajz, Stormsong Valley worldboss, which still looks quite decent today. It has base mastery, and a ramping STR proc,
A world quest on use mastery trinket, with a super weak on-use effect (should be 660 mastery at 445ilvl, and good job getting that one from the Tortollan Emissary),
Pocket-sized Computation Device, with a 180 mastery + 60 secondary stat Yellow Punchchard, and
Pocket-sized Computation Device with Subroutine: Optimization, which effect is broken if you have % corruptions (masterful in my case). As a sidenote, I’d love if everyone would report this bug, to have it fixed.
Really, the worst offender is that there is no new Mastery trinket in 8.3. Not only that, the only trinket that has a Mastery proc (Computation Device) doesn’t even work - that is, if you have %stat corruptions. At 66% mastery amp, I get reduced Mastery if my trinket stat redistribution procs.
The scarcity of these items are really limiting the amount of builds that you can have. You have lots of different trinkets for Haste (especially the 2 new haste trinkets from Ny’alotha), Crit and even Versatility, but not Mastery?
There’s a lack of trinkets full stop. Turtle emissary with rings and trinkets happens like once a month and you have to pray you get a trinket to replace your 420 from a wq.
I have a lot of alts that have full 445-450 gear and 420 trinkets and weapons. Come on Blizzard, put rings and trinkets in the Equipment emissary. Weapons too.
low ilvl for today standard but it’s a solid mastery bonus and you can you can line it up with shield of vengeance, it will absorb the downside and provide an extra burst.
plus getting it from myth should be relatively easy.
Hmm, that one did slip under my radar, however, I’d much prefer if I could add the Computation Device next to that. And well, if an 8.3 mastery trinket existed as well.
I suggest you read the wowhead comments on it, it explain better how the optimization card works.
Afaik, it wasn’t used at all when current gear, pretty much everyone who run that trinket used it based on the cyclotronic
Totals up all your secondary stats (excluding tertiary stats).
Adds an extra ~250stats to it, depending on ilvl.
The proc then redistributes those stats based on your Logic Board. In my case, I’m using 180mastery 60haste, so 75% of my total stats should be redistributed into Mastery, and 25% of my total stats should be redistributed into Haste.
I would then have 0 versa, and only 5% crit, as that is the baseline for Paladins.
However, in my case, I end up getting way too much haste, and end up losing Mastery.
I’m convinced that it’s my 66% mastery amp (which will soon be 72%) that is screwing up the redistribution formula. I tested with all other Logic Boards. Every single Logic Board that did not have Mastery on it worked properly. Every single Logic Board that had Mastery on it was extremely faulty.