There are a lot to talk about regarding haste and how you should think around this stat as a paladin. Seraphim (15 seconds with increased haste).Tier 18 set 2 and 4 (30 seconds and 10 seconds respectively).
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More things can make a small diferences and favor different haste values, like getting additional abilities outside of Bloodlust’s 45sec window but inside windows such as: What are the other windows that should be checked for haste soft caps?īut not all have 1:30m fights and you dont even have bloodlust up during the whole duration of a standard duration fight. This game is all about stacking cooldowns. Because heavier hits inside BL burst window = more burst = more overall damage. If you are killing bosses with less than 1:30m, 15.4% haste is all the haste your going to need because you got maximum uptime on Avenging Wrath, even outside the BL window thus more haste than that is probably wasted. So the first point is, if your going for the 15%, go for a bit more at 15.4%. 0,4% haste less is against the odds of you doing the maximum globals if you went for the 15% anyway. Then if we factor MS of ~70 you get around 28 abilities 14 being HoW. So theoretically gcd cap = 30 abilities used inside AW with SW talented at 0 MS. Being gcd capped means abilities are used with the same pace as the duration of procs and buffs. This is 0.4% more than the advertised and can be the difference, between getting that last HoW or Final verdict just before the ring is about to explode with seraphim wings and str pot up. With bloodlust up, the actual value of haste needed to be gcd caped is 15.4% raid buffed or 891 rating on gear. If your going for 15% haste, go for a bit MORE. Thus, to someone who’s raiding and has possesion of such gear, or one who can swap gear around without losing mastery, arguably our most desired secondary, what haste points are exactly desired? Also, BiS gear from archimonde also contains considerable amounts of haste.
Those are a lot of points to digest so, do take your time reading again before we delve into the world of haste.ĭespite all these, haste can be found on gear alongside mastery. And finally there are multiple breakpoints of haste, probably BETTER than the flat advertised 15%. Your MS too plays a part on how good haste actually is. Also, there’s the high uptime of bloodlust to discuss. Not only that, fights have shortened and you can chain your cds on most farm bosses.
Thats because with all the stacked cooldowns and amount of stats on mythic gear, mastery boosts your burst and heavies your hits. To put it simply, going for this number without simming your char at the cost of mastery usually is NOT worth it on T18 mythic gear. This takes account a char with 100MS or less. The 15% haste cap is a breakpoint that originates from early raiding in WoD, as it made you reach gcd in BL and gave an extra HoW inside 20 sec duration Avenging Wrath. Reaching a haste softcap usually means getting an extra attack inside certain windows, such as major cooldowns.
With that said, what is actually the benefit of reaching 15% haste? Haste besides making you attack faster also lowers the cooldown of your abilities as well as the global cooldown up to a maximum of 1 second per gcd. Why 15% haste? Where did this number come from? To reach a haste breakpoint means that your dropping another stat in favor of it. This is what is to be discussed in this topic but please do have in mind that despite all theoretical and paper value of haste and its soft caps, in the end personal gear and practical preferance varies for each one of us, as does the value of haste.įirst and foremost, the value of haste is always relative to your other stats. Probaby the most commonly asked question in the retribution community, is “should I reach the 15% haste cap” or “how worth it is the 15% haste, is it worth dropping mastery for it?” Haste ‘feels better’ and ‘performs better’ have different meanings often related to the answers of the above questions.