So after reading a few of the class compendiums on EJ it has come to my attention that now haste effects all HoTs and DoTs and has brought on a concept known as “haste plateaus”. A haste plateau is simply a given amount of haste needed in order to provide extra ticks to a HoT or DoT. Many of the class pages on EJ have tables that show exactly how much haste is need for each class to get to the next haste plateau, however many of them do not include the 1% haste buff from goblins, or the 3% haste ...
A look at Mastery: Healing With 4.0.1 being recently released and mastery being implemented as a fun new and shiny stat, I felt that an analysis of mastery needed to be done. This particular analysis will be primarily concerned with how mastery will affect healers. This analysis will not be so in depth that it will determine Cata healing down to an exact science, but it will compare how Mastery will aide in healing the common types of damage seen in raiding. So before I start my QQ'ing ...