Stat Priorities
Stat Ranking
Mastery > Haste > Crit > Versatility
This ranking is the general idea, but you should always sim an item to see if its an upgrade or not.
Stat Outline
Mastery: Moonfire increases your arcane damage on the target and Sunfire increases your nature damage on the target.
Haste: Makes it so you cast faster.
Versatility: Great overall stat for increasing damage done and reducing damage taken; making it a nice defensive stat for progress.
Crit: Grants a chance to deal double damage on all spells. Crit Synergizes well with Astral Smolder.
The best way to calculate stat priorities for your character is to "sim" your character
Find out how to simRaces
Horde:
- Troll is the highest simming race because of Berserking aligning with Celestial Alignment/Incarnation.
- Highmountain Tauren is also pretty good due to Bull Rush and the 1% versatility passive. Bull Rush adds another stop that you can use in mythic+, which makes it pretty good depending on the team composition you are running. It also gives you a bit of extra mobility.
- Tauren sims second highest and it gives you War Stomp, which can be very useful in certain situation in mythic +. It is also the second highest simming because of the crit passive that they have.
Alliance:
- Night Elf is the best because of Touch of Elune and Shadowmeld being really good for Mythic+.
Enchants
Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Graceful Avoidance
Chest: Enchant Chest - Waking Stats
Bracers: Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Avoidance
Legs: Frozen Spellthread
Boots: Enchant Boots - Plainsrunner’s Breeze
Rings: Enchant Ring - Devotion of Haste (Rank 3) or Enchant Ring - Devotion of Mastery (Rank 3) depending on what your sim suggests
Gems
Usually for the main stat gem you want to use the Skillful Illimited Diamond.
Gem: Keen Neltharite.
Consumables
Food: Grand Banquet of the Kalu’ak
Potion: Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
Rune: Howling Rune
Phial (Flask): Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage is the best Phial for DPS. You might want to consider Phial of Tepid Versatility for some bosses in raid in which your corrupting rage uptime isn’t high or for high Mythic+ content.
Health Potion: Refreshing Healing Potion