Protection stats

[Hammerpunch-ravencrest]

Hey,

I just need some input on stats here. So far from the information I’ve been able to gather, haste is the most valuable stat (followed by mastery, then versa) a protection paladin can amass, up to 20% atleast.

Haste helps with SotR uptime, and mastery with cons dmg reduction. But seeing as how anti melee these m+ affixes have been, and how squisy prot palas feel - shouldn’t versa be pri 1? I have the potential to have a very high uptime with SotR, but if I don’t use WoG alot it will end with a wipe, atleast in m+.

So now I am thinking about going versa as pri 1 as it helps in both m+ and pvp with its decreased dmg and improved healing.

Thoughts?

[Sylvare-argent-dawn (Sylvare)]

I’d put versa on near equal to mastery but slightly below it for survivability in general, SOTR uptime helps a ton against physical damage

It doesn’t do much against spelldamage but that’s where holy shield (allows you to block spells) and mastery (increased block chance) can make a difference and why they pull slightly ahead of Versa
I would probably weigh versa over mastery without holy shield but tbh that’s a guess I can’t confirm

Damaged blocked scales with shield ilvl so that will only get stronger as you get better shields

[Thedarksteel-defias-brotherhood]

@Hammerpunch-ravencrest

Hey,

I just need some input on stats here. So far from the information I’ve been able to gather, haste is the most valuable stat (followed by mastery, then versa) a protection paladin can amass, up to 20% atleast.

Haste helps with SotR uptime, and mastery with cons dmg reduction. But seeing as how anti melee these m+ affixes have been, and how squisy prot palas feel - shouldn’t versa be pri 1? I have the potential to have a very high uptime with SotR, but if I don’t use WoG alot it will end with a wipe, atleast in m+.

So now I am thinking about going versa as pri 1 as it helps in both m+ and pvp with its decreased dmg and improved healing.

Thoughts?

For pve put haste and mastery (mastery also increases your healing trough attack power)

For pvp put haste and versatibility…

Dont worry too much about critical chance.

[Ashelía-tarren-mill]

@Hammerpunch-ravencrest

So now I am thinking about going versa as pri 1 as it helps in both m+ and pvp with its decreased dmg and improved healing.

Mastery also increases healing done, in fact more than from Versatility. Pure numbers I got more from a 120 mastery ring over a 118 versa ring both haste as 2nd stat.

Mastery is slightly better than Versa for everything with that said ilvl is still king between the two. And with us finally just needing around 20% to maintain a good uptime on SoTR you can acutally have Mastery/Versa on a couple of pieces. And Versa aint bad but it is slightly weaker than Mastery since mastery also have that passive damage reduction combined with block.