Am I reading Landsoul's BiS list right in that Arms does not use any expertise items in their BiS gear setup?

Because of Everlasting Affliction, every Shadow Bolt, Haunt, or Drain Soul application will update the current Corruption on the target with your current Haste and Spell Power (this includes buffs you currently have), but not Crit or +Damage buffs, those require you to completely re-apply Corruption when you have the buffs. But then those continue to stay with that corruption as long as you continue to refresh it with the aforementioned spells, as has been stated MANY times before in this thread.

Just a few things that jump out at me right away

• You're way over hit cap: 17.39% with that gear set. Are you not getting any hit buffs in 25-man? Shed some hit
• You're pretty low on Haste, and have some spirit gear (which is really not optimal). Try to focus on the Haste / Crit pieces
• You have a Spellpower / Spell Penetration gem on your shoulder item. No reason whatsoever to have Spell Pen in PVE

other than that, can't help you much without a WOL or WWS parse. On fights with adds, are you immolating the adds? Are you tracking cooldowns well and using Conflag / Chaos Bolt every time they're available? Are you life tapping too much? when I go from Demonology to Destro for Heroic Fights, I find I have to consciously avoid life tapping. Demo is hugely mana intensive, but I can go like 3 minutes spamming in Destro and never have to tap

Finally, do go with 4-piece T10, even if they are 251. They're pretty hefty DPS increases, even if you have to downgrade from 264 pieces to 251. Go with every piece but the Legs (stick with Woven Death). Your hit should actually stay the same as you'll add the hit from the Tier Gloves but lose hit from going with Tier Shoulders. The tiered gear is also much better itemized than the pieces you're using.

Hope this helps

Thanks for the response. As far as hit, it’s all built into the gear. Can’t really dump any of it except for maybe the boot enchant, haha. I realize that I have some spirit gear in there. It’s not because I’d rather have that than the haste/crit gear, it’s simply the gear that’s dropped for me.

As far as haste, I’ve read that at some point your haste rating hits a law of diminishing returns (500 seems to be the number most often quoted). You’re saying I’m pretty low on haste, should I swap out my gems that have crit for gems with haste? I know haste > crit, but I thought there was a law of diminishing returns for that stat.

Thanks for pointing out the sp/sp gem. I totally forgot I had that in there. That was an emergency placement because I couldn’t find a sp/spirit gem, haha. You said spirit is not optimal though. I’ve read spirit is good for locks cause of Fel armor. Would you recommend the G of Life tap over G of Immolate?

I will switch it up and use my T-10 gear.

The haste hole is far higher than 500; more like 1342 I think is the cap.

In addition to Elam's post about Piercing Shots, SS can proc ISS giving CS a 15% damage boost.

Unless you had a warrior and druid buddy applying sunder/mangle to your dummy you were also missing out on some very key buffs that make SS hit harder then ArS.

I believe it is expressed earlier in the thread as to the amount of DPS increase from GoD, but those numbers seem very high for your gear from my perspective. Your expertise is through the roof, you should really look into dropping some of that. Movement fights is all just a part of your playstyle, in my not-so-great gear, I can do around 11000 on Lord Marrowgar. You should really work on getting your 4pc T10 ASAP, cause I am MS tank and just got my 4pc for dps, and as expected, it was a very large dps increase. Also, I try to use my BT-UBA then immediately pop my Potion of Speed after that, and normally try to save it for under 35% so that Merciless Combat gives a tiny little push aswell.

Allright, I wasn't aware the ranking was off for some other class.

And yes, as I said, simming my stats into ZAP was showing same as you said, was just wondering why was there a difference, which one of the sims was wrong.

Clearly, ZAP's isn't!

I've done a search for threads about Simcraft, and I can't really find a good answer to this question...

When I plug my hunter into Simcraft, I get a different resulting set of DPS and stat weights than when I run the same hunter through the spreadsheet. Now, for the most part the stats line up and the DPS is equivalent enough that it's not a big difference.

But a good example is some of the middle to lower stats like Haste are generally represented as higher in Simcraft and lower on the spreadsheet. I've read the arguments that things like Rapid Fire and Improved Aspect of the Hawk modify Haste and make it less important that it might seem, but I generally have trusted Simcraft in the past to catch things like this and still give me a an accurate value of stats. I don't understand why it would be so different unless one is wrong. And if Simcraft is wrong, why doesn't someone fix it, since the point of that program is "simulation craft", you'd think the people who maintain it would try their darndest to keep it somewhat accurate.

I mainly ask this because small differences in the weight of gear stats would ultimately affect my gear choices or my gemming. Maybe not enough to make a huge difference, but enough that I don't think you should overlook it either.

Edit: I've also noticed the same inconsistences in Rawr, but I generally don't trust that program, because it keeps telling me to regem all my gems to haste gems...

good info ty