Gearing
We will talk about our stat priority and what pieces of gear you should prioritize obtaining. Gearing this season is very straightforward. When it comes to trinkets, especially, there are only a few good options.
Stat Priority
You want to prioritize your stats as the following: Versatility = Critical Strike > Mastery >> Haste. You want to try and prioritize Versatility and Critical Strike on every piece of gear. Ideally, you want as little Mastery and Haste as possible.
Versatility
You want a high percentage of Versatility because it increases your damage and healing, while also decreasing all damage that you take. This is especially helpful against magic damage, as we can't dodge it and our stagger has reduced effectiveness against it.
Tier Set
Even though the secondaries on our tier set this season isn't great, the set bonuses make up for it. Not only does it give us a huge damage increase overall, mainly through the use of Keg Smash, but it also provides us with a small amount of constant damage reduction.
Equipment
We will discuss what pieces of gear that you want to try and obtain for each slot, along with why. Keep in mind that item level is always the most important thing outside of necks, rings, and trinkets.
Rings
Cyrce's Circlet
This is the new ring from Siren Isle and it is very strong. The gems that you want to run on it are Legendary Skipper's Citrine, Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine, and Stormbringer's Runed Cintrine or Thunderlord's Crackling Citrine. Stormbringer's provides more survivability and consistency, while Thunderlord's provides more ST. Thunderlord's is really good in keys like City of Threads and Dawnbreaker where it's a lot of ST and low target count pulls.
Trinkets
Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg
This trinket grants us increased Agility when we are standing still, stacking up to 30 times. When we are moving, we gain an increase to our highest secondary stat, stacking up to 30 times. This egg is very strong, as it is a very helpful stat increase. If you can get it from raid, make sure you always run it.
Embellishments
You should run Adrenal Surge Clasp + Crafted Gloves/Shoulders with Writhing Armor Banding until you get 639 gloves/shoulders. Then, you should move the Writhing Armor Banding to crafted wrists.
Adrenal Surge Clasp
This embellishment causes our abilities to grant us a large increase in Agility and slightly decreases our Mastery. This is very good and should be the first embellishment you make.
Enchantments & Consumables
Enchantments and consumables are very important for your character. We will discuss what enchants and consumables that you want, along with why. Certain enchants and consumables may vary based on your stats.
Gems
The gems that you socket into your gear depends on your own stats. Keep in mind that necks and rings can now be double socketed.
Unique Gem
Culminating Blasphemite
Increase Agility by 181 and increases Critical Strike damage by 0.15% per unique Algari gem color. You can only have one of this gem.
Regular Gems
Deadly Sapphire
Increases Versatility by 147 and Critical Strike by 49. Run this if you want more Versatility than Critical Strike.