Cast 5deathcoils and instead of morphing your pet you cast another deathcoil. Right before it acually hits the target you dt your pet and viola dt with 1stack of shadow infusion. This is only possible if the boss is large enough, that means the flighttime of your deathcoil is long enough. You can easily test it on a boss dummy.

DT is part of the GCD, so the only way that "bug" works is if the DC missile takes longer than 1 sec to reach the target. So if you are meleeing the boss right on his hit box, it won't work. I guess we have to either shoot the DC at a target far away or move far from the boss ourselves, or tell the ghoul to move far then shoot the DC to heal it ad then DT it.

Fights would get more complicated IMO.

The above mentioned method is quite easy to pull of on bosses with big hitboxes like Al'Akir with a high "attachment point". By attechment point i mean the point where projectiles are flying at.

One thing I did notice with the Dark Transformation, is that if you cast a Death Coil right when a 5stack Shadow Infusion buff expires, so that your pet will lose his 5 stack and gain a new 1 stack buff, the server doesn't recognize this as a new stack and the popup graphic will stay (if you are using Blizzard default power auras substitute). Also on your hotbar it will still show up as if DT is castable even though your pet has only 1 stack (this causes it to interfere with 3rd party addons as well, which are typically programmed based on a "is castable" trigger). Attempting to cast DT in such a scenario will do nothing but waste a GCD depending on latency.

Though this situation occurs only rarely it can really throw off your concentration and waste a few GCDs on trying in vain to cast DT. The issue resolves itself when you get a new 5stack buff and cast a legit DT.

Your conditional statement is off on the second line. [target=harm,nodead] will try to cast it to a nearby target with a name that starts with Harm. You can leave that out and just use [harm,nodead] to do what you want it to do.

That being said, what are you trying to accomplish with this macro? At the moment it looks like it will interfere with DT casting at best, and waste RP on DCs with a 5 Shadow Infusion stack at worst. If anything I would place them in opposite order (that is, /cast DT before /cast DC) so you will never give up potential DT uptime (it will attempt to cast DT, and only if that fails it will do a DC). Seems like the more logical choice to me.

So, yeah. To be completely honest, I simply don't care enough about the game and its eternally transient balance to give this thread (and the Frost one, for that matter) the upkeep they deserve. Although I'll continue to theorycraft and what have you for my own sake, it just takes way too much time and energy to put all that information here: typing it all up, formatting it all, spelling out every last little detail such that anyone and everyone can understand it. I mean, the information - what spec is best, what rotation to use, what's best in slot, and so on - are easy to figure out (for me anyways). It's simply then putting all of it into the post which is a large bother. I just don't have the motivation to continue to do that latter part (although I'll continue with the first, of course!).

As such, I will no longer be updating the OP, and respectfully request that this thread be locked and that someone start a new one (so as to prevent any confusion as time goes on).

Unlocking this for general Unholy discussion until a suitable replacement available. See the sticky thread if you are interested.

While it doesn't immediately help with the aforementioned need in this forum, I thought this might be somewhat related.

I made a guide thread Tuesday on our official class forums at BNET and it was recommended to me that I also post of its existence here. Currently there is a Tanking guide and their equivalent of the 'Simple Q/A' thread stickied, but nothing is pinned for PVE Unholy or Frost. I thought it was interesting that there wasn't one anymore, but kind of understandable. Trying to write something cogent given the expectations and caliber of players who participate on EJ/BNET is definitely a challenge. I have tried very earnestly to organize the information accurately and neatly, despite the limitations of Blizzard's BB code.

BNET: Unholy PVE Guide (4.0.6)

Sorry, but this "guide" is just a translated and outdated version of considers guide. A shame that the author even
didn't mentioned that this guide is just a "Copy & Paste".

For fights like heroic halfus and Maloriak is anyone going with the AoE guide lines(DnD and IT glyphs with frost presence)? I'm doing decent DPS on those encounters but I think I could squeeze out some more numbers.

Well for Maloriak yes, but for Halfus it really depeneds on how your guild really does it.
Another thing...think about it, your dps will be loss when you single target Halfus down..because of the glyph changes and such. But thats my opinion. Good Luck!