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• Aldriana · 05/05/09, 7:29 PM

Post: Unholy Gains Shadow of Death (Unholy DPS Discussion)
User: seraphthrone
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Your new awesome, untested spec

Some testing or actual numerical theorycraft would be nice.

Original Post:

I'm thinking about giving up EP and put all the points into blood instead of frost. That way you technically only waste 3 points to get all the beneficial non-unholy talents.
You will be looking at something like this: build

So instead, you remove 3 points from EP, 2 points from CF, 2 points from morbidity, all points from frost and put these 17 points into blood. This way you will lose:

10% damage from DC
Tiny bit of damage lost from IT
30 max RP
3% crit from EP, assuming 13% damage is covered by a moonkin.
10% shadow and frost damage

But you gain:
4 RP every 10 seconds
Tiny bit of damage gain from BS through crit and some threat reduction
About 1k AP from bladed armor
4% weapon damage

In the end the second option looks better to me. You get more crit, AP applies to all damage sources, RP generation partly make up for DC damage lost.