Currently, both my simulators and even the new Sim created by Kahorie are showing similar results in this order.

Unholy 2H> Blood 2H> Frost 2H> DW everything

My highest possible dps is with Unholy 0/10/61 then 12/0/59
Then followed VERY closely by Blood 51/1+/18+
And the runner-up currently (in my spreadsheets/sims) being 0+/51+/17+ then 17/51+/0+

Unholy and Blood are literally neck and neck within a couple percent where frost is trailing by about 5-7%
DW is almost impossible to see being viable at this point.

Remember this is all Theorycraft assuming max buffs/stats (Ulduar hard mode gear etc) and a fair bit of it could be chalked up to glitches and forgotten assumptions. Regardless, those are my predictions above anyway.

If they are pretty close right now then I will probably go Blood right now for the DS built into the rotation for the added survivability.
What sigil have you been using for Unholy? Sigil of Awareness or the new DC sigil?

To be fair I've got a DW unholy spec spitting out just under 6300 DPS with best known ulduar gear on the sim. Bear in mind that there are no DPS one handers over iLevel 226 known yet.

DC/FS for Blood and Frost

Awareness for Unholy

Fair enough. That same gear with a 2H would be higher DPS with the appropriate spec and priority. Feel free to try and refute that and if you can find a legitimate DW spec that can at least be on par with 2H there are plenty who would like to see it (including myself).

It isn't; in patch 3.1 it should go down to 166.212.

What are the Ghoul uptime assumptions for these tests? When our little friend dies even with NotD on some bosses Blood will likely pull ahead. Even the Gargoyle may die during certain fights whereas DRW keeps on beating.

I've been trying to keep up with what everyone is saying on here about the upcoming changes. What I was wondering is, how are the three builds (12/0/59, 17/0/54, 0/10/61) stacking up to each other and does anyone have a link to each of them.

About 5 pages ago this was summed up, you might wanna skip a few pages back.

Also as far as i know 17/0/54 is no longer a really viable spec since it lacks desecration.

What we could have really used is a new thread for Unholy PTR testing where the OP keeps up to date info on what people have found rather than a mish mash of pre and post patch data requiring 2 days work to sift through.

Probably a bit late now though.

It's been reading the comparing of Desecration to Dark Conviction, but what about Dark Conviction to Necrosis? I think someone mentioned BCB worked out to be more worthwhile point for point, and I myself am a big fan of moribidity.

17/0/54

I don't have access to the PTR, but I cannot see myself picking up necrosis now with the current total % of damage it's contributing to some of your parses.

It's been stated before in this thread that IUP isn't only "pure survivability", it's also a DPS gain, especially in Ulduar where literally every boss encounter I've tested (which is all of them available to the US, 7/14) require heavy movement, minus the obvious Flame Leviathan.

The only thing that could really be considered debatable in regards to moving faster in raids (again, especially Ulduar), is whether or not Enchant Boots - Tuskarr's Vitality - Spell - World of Warcraft (8% movement speed increase) + the then 1 (8% movement speed increase) or 2 (15% movement speed increase) spare talent points from not needing IUP is better than Enchant Boots - Greater Assault - Spell - World of Warcraft.

Edit: Having tried all of the different builds in a true raid environment, so far I have had the best results while being 14/0/57

Maybe I haven't removed all the modifiers that I should have but so far Necrosis still beats out DarkCon in single target dps. Not by too much but just saying.

Also, I had crit factoring into BCB on my last talent breakdown so the numbers should be adjusted to a bit less than before.

With current T7 gear

DC .58% per point (ulduar gear = no change)
Necrosis .75% per point (ulduar gear = .84%)
BCB .83% per point (ulduar gear = .93%)

The value of Nec and BCB goes up with ArP obviously.

Just an interesting note: In ulduar gear necrosis, impurity and desecration are all nearly exactly the same worth with current assumptions for single target dps.

I think my math may be wrong, but its showing:

pest glyph being 4x the dps increase as ss glyph

Could you please copy your math so that we can check your numbers?

I don't see any math possibly proving that an ability that requires a blood run to use gives you more dps than one that comes for free. I'm intrigued too.

SS Glyph (when it procs) gives you an extra SS at the loss of IT+PS dmg. And it procs 1/4 the time:
(866.3 - 85.8 - 91.7)/4 = 172.2

Pest Glyph makes you trade BS+IT+PS worth of dmg for an extra SS:
(866.3 - 152.5 - 85.8 - 91.7) = 536.3

172.2 / 536.3 = .32 SS Glyph is ~1/3 of Pest Glyph.

*I'm using the dps from NeuroMedivh's 5min test for these calculations.

You're seriously implying that the SS glyph proccs once every 4 rotations?

o_0 Wow...i guess 2hours of sleep really isn't enough...

I'll redo my math.

K nvm, SS Glyph is better than Pest Glyph... By like 28%

edit: Would SCT show ur SS Procs? (haven't tried it)

I don't think so, but you can just watch your disease timers and hit IT/PS if you see them getting low (< 3s).

The blood spec being cited above is blood/unholy, right? ...with a ghoul?

51/2/18 without a ghoul wouldn't make a lot of sense.

Ghoul uptime for 51/2/18 was assumed at ~55%

Ghoul AND Garg uptime for any Unholy build was assumed at ~95%