Part of that is because of the low stats he used(like a rare weapon), but part is dots don't crit, and we don't have anything absurd like flurry+impale+deep wounds.

Deep Unholy DoTs do crit (Wandering Plague).

The most current build (3.0.3) on WoWhead is showing that Unholy Blight has no runic power cost associated with it anymore. Can anyone confirm or deny this, as I've been calculating UB as a runic power dump. Thanks in advance.





Edit: It seems Wowhead was incorrectly marked, currently in game Unholy blight costs 60 runic power. Disregard or delete.

I think that was his point. You can't answer "Why is crit so lowly valued?" with "Because DoTs don't crit" when Unholy's DoTs do crit.

Well we don't have flurry+deepwounds+impale or anything absurd like that which helps with crit scaling.

That was for the 51/13/7 spec. I was using Methods numbers as I know if I was trying to do the weightings, I'd buck something up and throw it way off.

I used a 180 dps 2H weapon in my tests. I just tried it again and the numbers don't change too much even with a Betrayer (~220 dps). Hit until capped. STR is still amazing for all specs. Crit and Exp are around the same (before capped). ApR good for blood but less for unholy but still decent for frost.

Really busy at work so I haven't been able to do many error searches so there could still be major flaws I'm missing. The only known bug/mistake I have that I haven't fixed yet is the lack of glancing blows in my white damage calculation as well as not using a "One Roll" system instead of normal averages.

For now it looks like for (after cap):

Unholy: 1WDPS>>STR>CRIT>AP>Haste>ApR

Blood: 1WDPS>>STR>CRIT>ApR>AP>Haste

Frost: 1WDPS>>>STR>CRIT>AP>APR>Haste

If i can get the time I'll try to post some actual numbers.

Methods, where would AGI be for each spec. I'm under the assumption that AGI is at least better than the worst stat (ApR for unholy, Haste for the others). But would it fit between the next stat up?

I.E.,
Unholy: 1WDPS>>STR>CRIT>AP>AGI>Haste>ApR

Blood: 1WDPS>>STR>CRIT>ApR>AGI>AP>Haste

Frost: 1WDPS>>>STR>CRIT>AP>AGI>APR>Haste

Or would it remain only better than the worst stat? Also, I'm looking for your latest spreadsheet and have been unable to find it. I would think such a great tool would be on the first page.

I haven't added agility into my calculations totally yet so I can't give a full answer on that. You are right that it will be quite low on the priorities.

My sheets haven't been posted yet aside from a few PMs to other 'tool makers' on these boards. The reason is they (my sheets) are a shameful mess and are not very user friendly yet. When I have a less busy schedule I'll get the kinks out and have a presentable sheet posted. Meanwhile Tzenes' sheet is slightly different but could give you very similar answers by manually changing variables and recording the difference. I think we're all still working with approximates anyway.

Agi might beat both APR and Haste for Unholy and Frost, putting it above AP for blood seems unlikely to me - or it will be better than AP for frost as well, as it should affect frost strike but not death coil, and a "standard" frost rotation for theory crafting doesn't use howling blast to my knowledge. I assume those rankings were for one point of each? AP doesn't get the same scaling as STR of course, but would 2 AP beat 1 ApR for blood for example (as that's closer to the same item budget cost so more likely to be the approximate tradeoff we see)?

I checked yesterday in Ebon Hold, and Glyph of Death Strike does appear to be working with Rage of Rivendare.