The posts I viewed can be found Here and Here.

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Add % Modifier (15)
Value: 100

Sounds likeit qould very well tie in with the strange "Spell crit + 15%" theory you heard of. However, none of the tests indicate that the crit chance would be spell crit + 15%, or 15% of spell crit, or 115% of any of the crits.

You pretty much explained it yourself. WP is not a crit, but a proc based on your crit chance that does damage equal to the disease tick to the target and all targets around. So if a disease crits and WP procs at the same time, WP technically doesn't crit (because it cannot), but simply copies the critical damage of the disease to its targets (so you get the impression of a crit).

Pretty much wath Amroo said, Tompin.

If you look just like a few posts back I clearly explained how WP works. It's not a crit. It's a different roll. It copies the exact damage from the disease, whether it's a hit or a crit.

@Sakuratei: Yeah, I actually don't believe in the +15%-crap myself. I think the parenthesis-numbers are just codes for different stuff, not actual percentage numbers or something. It's just mildly annoying how 2 tests shows melee, 1 shows spell, and it shares aura with a Resto-bonus... Whoever here (Tompin?) did the tests and found it to be spell crit - care to redo another test?

While I'm much more tempted to say we simply need a very extended test to see definitive results, it IS possible they somehow have the 4T9 bonus detect your spec. With frost and unholy diseases already hitting a fair amount harder than blood, a similar crit chance would make it much more ideal for those specs. However, if they somehow have it based off spell hit in f/u and melee crit in blood, it would probably even the value of the bonus.

But I don't really expect that is the case... seems too complicated for a set bonus.

Assuming you were doing this on the boss dummy, wouldn't this be roughly in line with melee crit minus the crit reduction against a higher-level mob? I believe the crit reduction is about 4.5%, though I've not seen data on this for a while.

I was actually thinking about that while doing the test, and I was indeed doing it on a Boss dummy. Doing some test on lvl75 dummies as we speak.

28,4% melee - 4,8% boss malus = 23,6%
It's definitely melee crit.

Question to all ex-Bloodknights that have switched to DW post 3.2:

Okay, so I want to know what effects switching to DW has had on your dps? Higher? Lower? Same?

I'm wanting to switch, as Blood is becoming a bit stale atm, but obviously I don't want to hurt the raid with lower dps.

I have two main concerns right now about switching to DW Frost. The first are my weapons. I currently have this [Razorscale Talon] and this [Grimhorn Crusher] for weapons, but I'm waiting to get the mace for 5 man ToC to drop until I actually switch. Would the Talon and Mace be good enough to make the switch to DW?

And my second concern is cooldowns. As blood, I know that if something has to die quickly, I can hit my DRW/Hysteria macro and start throwing some heat around. I don't feel as though I have that with DW. And as a result, I feel like my dps will go down because of it.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I don't think my dps has changed all that much. Not that I've noticed anyway. You are right, there is a lack of burst, but frost more than makes up for it in sustained damage along with a <35% hp 'execute' range. Its been said again and again, it really just comes down to playstyle.

I switched back to blood a week ago for a night and what I noticed the most was how bored I was with the rotation haha. KM+Rime has a bit of a slot machine endorphin rush to it that I had just gotten way too used to. I switched back the next day. Bottom line is, play what you feel is fun.

As for weapons, use whatever gives you the highest strike damage and you'll do fine.

I'm also rocking Talon and the Mace from ToC, to be completely honest its just one of those things your going to have to test out yourself. My DPS has gone up quite a bit since i went DW but i also only switched from the Frost 2h Icy touch Machine Gun spec, so going from blood to DW its harder to tell. Though you may want to think about whether you have an enhancement shaman or not or another frost DK, if you don't the haste buff may benefit the whole raid more than yourself.

@Necromir:
I used to Frost DW DPS and that was great. I suspect I'll go back to this after a few more patches.

However, at the moment I find I can get slightly better DPS with an Unholy DW build, focusing on single-rune abilities and Death Coil. So I use neither Obliterate nor Scourge Strike. The changes to Subversion are welcome, but I don't think this'll be enough to significantly change the way we exploit Unholy for DW.

To be honest, if I were in Blizzard's shoes, I'm not sure what I'd try to do to kill Unholy DW, and I'm not sure it's something I'd feel necessary. The Subversion change only helps encourage Obliterate-Unholy players to switch back to Scourge Strike.