Versatility and Prot

[swimister 0]

My gut feeling is that versatility could be pretty good for tanking. More healing and less damage taken seems like it would help your healer(s) out immensely. Thoughts?

[Estarriol 167]

It's mediocre. Its primary problem is that it scales poorly. For prot, it is above haste and multistrike, but below all else.

[nefigah 26]

I have to admit I don't really understand why they added Versatility, since as far as I recall, they don't want it to be prioritized by any class. And with reforging gone, I'm doubtful we'll even see people trying out "builds" with it (something like Versatility-focused hybrid fistweaving monks or whatever).

 

Then again, I don't really understand Multistrike's inclusion either (seems conceptually identical to crit, with the only difference being some class passives trigger off crit and some off MS).

[Estarriol 167]

I like MS more because it does trigger certain things and thus gives a certain playstyle and feel. Versatility adds nothing. I think it's an incredibly lazy stat that is just unnecessary bloat.