"Gear better than yours has less crit" but Crit gems recommended?

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Crit for prot pally?

Thanks – yeah looks like you had different talents selected, now I see the same thing. It probably only happens with Seraphim builds. I have a couple tweaks that should make it not do that as often, but the short version of why it is doing that: using the Mythic+ simulation and your talents and gear, replacing some of your mastery with critical strike simulates to just about the same value. I would have to do some analysis to give you a more in-depth answer to why that is (other than “the data…