There I was, wandering around the streets of Stormwind last night, when I received a message from Vayren, a level 81 Mage whom I have never seen before. The message?
“Stack HASTE not mastery!”
I know that I have gone through this ad nauseam on Twitter and in many a bg conversation, but I figured last night, “What the Hell!” and I regemmed and re-enchanted it all to haste.
To be honest, I had a blast. The PEW PEW PEW of my LAZERZZZZ was amazing. I speed at which the magic was flying was incredible! There was only one small little problem. I was only about doing 3/4 of the damage I normally do. I gave it a chance, did several more battlegrounds but the outcome was the same. Sure I was still top in damage, but I was no where near the numbers I am used to. In PvP, I rely mostly on my instant cast spells (say what you want but moonfire/sunfire spam is where it’s at) and I only cast to drop a bomb or get closer to that eclipse.
Most of the PvP Moonkins think I’m nuts for stacking mastery but it works for me. With the four piece PvP set bonus that has been increased to 20 Solar Energy and 13 Lunar Energy, up from 5 and 13, I stay in Eclipse without even trying. Yes, I get hit that much. I am a large target after all.
I tried to explain this to the all-knowing mage that messaged me, but as usual, he just logged. I get that a lot, but usually they are rage tells from a Level 1 Warrior that likes to call me an “old hag”. Ah well, just gonna go and kill some more Horde in his honor.
