Looks like they changed their minds, didnt make it to the official patch notes and was just data mined

Was a mastery rework even on the table for this patch? I forget what was said about it. I just tried a quick google and couldn't even find the original post. I don't really recall any promises about it, just that it wasn't working out and they planned to change it to work with Scourge Strike damage.

Ghostcrawler didn't give a timetable but in a blog post he wrote "Unholy DKs are another spec for whom mastery just isn’t working out. Our current intent is to redesign their mastery so that their attacks cause more damage to diseased targets (in a similar manner to the Restoration druid mastery)." Many, if not most, of the other changes mentioned in that blog post are in the current patch notes, so it seems likely that our mastery change would be coming soon as well.

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You're right. No SS Buff, just a tooltip fix. So far, we got only a straight 5% strength nerf.

This was done on the live server. No Scourge Strike buff talents/glyphs. No EP. 1 Disease up.

1799 Physical
216 Shadow
= 12%

It is not just a tooltip correction. The Scourge Strike buff is not currently implemented on Live servers.

So the PvP 4-set bonus + 2-set bonus amounts to 250 strength. That's 62.5 strength per piece.

If you replace your BiS 359 raid gear with some Conquest Points gear, your BiS doesn't seem so BiS anymore...
Shoulders:
PvP: +62.5 Strength (set)
+15 Strength
+159 Expertise
T11: +149 Hit
+169 Haste
+10 Haste (socket bonus)

Now, using stat weights:
PvP: 77.5*3.09 + 159*.66 = 344.415 DPS advantage
T11: 149*.78 + 179*.75 = 250.17 DPS advantage

Difference of 93.98 favoring 365 PvP gear.

Another calculation:
Vicious Gladiator's Signet of Accuracy: +134 Hit
+11 Strength
Band of Bees: +127 Mastery
+127 Haste

Signet: 134*.78 + 11*3.09 = 137.51
Bees: 127*.24 + 127*.75 = 125.73

VP capped in hours of raiding just for a ring, or CP capped in 20 minutes for a (maybe) better ring? Nice.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is it beneficial to wear 4 pieces of 365 PvP gear along with the rest of your raid gear? I'm in no way an expert so I may be overlooking something, and please don't ask me to spreadsheet it because for the life of me I don't know how :P

Edit: I did not consider the T11 set bonus. ~+3% for 2 pc and 4 pc.
Replacing gear in the following slots gives:
Shoulder: ~94 dps
Legs: ~88 dps
Gloves: ~201 dps
Chest: ~81

So as it turns out, if you're doing above 15k dps, which you will be, the T11 is slightly better. I was wrong about the tier gear, but my question for the ring still stands. And PvP gear is arguably easier to obtain, and 352 PvP gear is better for starting raids than Heroic gear.

To be fair, we're probably going to want one of the rings from Conclave of Wind anyway since they can drop a very nice strength based haste/crit ring. Which, by all counts is significantly better than [Band of Bees]

This is strange. I did not save the logs, but for me the trinket proc ended up constituting 3.8% of my DPS for a night of raiding a few days ago, according to Recount, and i was averaging 18k, in 2H Unholy. Based on that data I thought Hurricane to be insanely good.

This could be arguable and up to preference, but I would like to note that in 359 gear expertise is only 0.04 DPS better per point than crit on a tank and spank type of fight, making it not worth it to reforge on various Cataclysm encounters. There are hardly any encounters that let you stay on melee range of the boss for the whole duration of the fight and do not have any secondary targets.

Shadow damage is about 40% of our damage (a little more). So the new mastery will come down to be a 1% damage buff per 1 mastery. Napkin math showing it pretty close to haste. I suppose a little weaker.

But mastery has 1 big advantage: it scales really heavy with AOE damage. 1% haste brings no additional AOE damage, but 1% mastery brings surely more than 1.5% AOE damage. There are some fights where adds are present.

I estimate that the mastery change will be a 5% damage buff, buffed diseases should result in another 3%. Sudden Doom could be a decent nerf since we don't know it's actual procc chance. Along with the 5% strength nerf, it's safe to assume that in it's current state, Unholy will get a nice damage buff (which clearly isn't working as intended).


You are somethat wrong. All logs are showing my shadow part being close to 65% of it's physical part. Considering we get 8% damage from EP (and nothing else), i am pretty sure that it's already 18% per disease on live.