For those of us speccing into IIT, is GoPS not a reasonable option? While we're only using Plague Strike once per rotation, and Plague Strike in itself is a bit lackluster, given that it is affected by ToT, would this not at least be a considerable option over GoIT?

@Döc: Reading really must be hard, at your algalon kill I see your both BCB strikes adding up to 1.9% which makes for 0.6333~% per point. On your Stormcaller log (why only log Stormcaller? If anything Steelbreaker is the fight where dps matters - assuming HM) it's 0.9%. 0.6-0.9 IS lower than what earlier has been said about it and Subversion has been called a 0.73%(?) dps per point.

It also becomes a circumstance on the fight itself, and the play style of the individual. Many fights you can make it by without the IT glyph by utilizing AMS (which a lot of individuals, myself included, don't chain together like we should). GoHB glyph has its bonuses, as a good example think of Freya and Thorim's arena, but HB generally doesn't do anywhere near the DPS that an GoIT or GoD build does (at least from my personal tests, this may be because I came from blood and have high armor pen rather than high AP). Based on play style and the individual fights different configurations of glyphs can be quite beneficial. Based on raid group makeup specs are still up in the air. When taking into consideration glyph choices and their potential on fights you have to assume what raid makeup someone will be running (more specific if Windfury is going to be dropped), or if more magic debuffs will be present in comparison to physical debuffs (in the OB vs HB debate - this is more of an issue in 10m), or the amount of mobs you will be encountering and the potential for AoE vs single target. I have been starved for RP in BP as my current 3/53/15 (more into Subversion over BCB later), but I take the opportunity to fill the slot with summoning a ghoul or using horn in place of waiting 1.5s for my next set of runes to come up, and this is even with IT glyph.

Now, back onto the builds discussion. I mentioned above that I am currently 3/53/15. Now, every parse I have seen puts BCB worth approximately 0.8-1.0% DPS per point (and personal tests show this as well). After some rough napkin math I found that 9% crit on OB is dominant to 3/3 BCB, not only in terms of damage, but in terms of functionality, as it removes a large portion of our threat per second (my math suggests subversion is worth about 3.2% dps).

Just curious to see what others have found on the subject of BCB vs Subversion.

edit:
I just took a look at this parse (url) as it is the highest damage done as 53/18 without UA to disturb average damage across abilities on General Vezax HM.

Ability	Damage Done	Percent
Frost Strike	603,986	25.3%
Obliterate	592,245	24.8%
Melee	457,856	19.1%
Blood Plague	118,749	5.0%
Frost Fever	115,465	4.8%
Howling Blast	112,971	4.7%
Blood Strike	98,669	4.1%
Necrosis	85,831	3.6%
Icy Touch	82,463	3.4%
Plague Strike	49,816	2.1%
Blood Caked Blade	48,897	2.0%
Bandit's Insignia	18,378	0.8%
Razor Frost	4,756	0.2%
Total	2,390,082

Now, as shown BCB at 3/3 was worth 2.0% in this parse, this is not typical as the result at 3/3 is generally 2.4-3.3%. For a rough estimate on average (sparing all the random factors) we can figure that BCB is worth about 2.85% dps on average, or about 68,117 damage on this parse if it was more accurate. Obliterate has a default crit multiplier of 2x, however with an additional 45% crit from GoG, Obliterate now crits at a 2.9x multiplier (if my math is correct 2*1.45). In this case his average non-crit Obliterate MH was 3,209.2, and his average MH crit was 7,916, or a multiplier of 2.47. His average non-crit Obliterate OH was 2,086.4, and his average OH crit was 5,617 or a multiplier of 2.62. Both of the crit multiplier values are lower than the expected 2.9, so I will use his values instead of mine in calculations. Now, on this individual parse he had 131 Obliterates land, I am assuming due to latency issues or he landed a killing blow before the strike could go off, so for the sake of even numbers due to DW we will use the figure 132. In 132 obliterate lands he should receive an additional 11.88 Obliterate crits, or, for the sake of keeping this even, 6 MH and 6 OH crits. 6 MH crits would result in 34,977.6 damage, and 6 OH crits would result in 21183.6 damage, for a total of 56,161.2 damage.

To keep this short I won't bother going over what I did on Blood Strike calculations, but the average damage gain from 9% on Blood Strike is 9,492.9. Together with OB the total damage gain is 65,654. Now, the above parse shows BCB at 2% overall damage, but if it were at 3% like most calculations use it would be at 71,702. The difference is a mere 6,048 damage. However the difference here is that you gain 25% less threat via subversion, Obliterate gains damage through Merciless Combat, and the crit multipliers were off in all 4 calculations above (MH/OH Obliterate and Blood Strike) from the expected multiplier. BCB is subject to the same strike mechanics of other yellow hits and thus can be dodged, while subversion is a static 9% crit, providing a static benefit providing Obliterate hits.

This is all napkin math of course, the abilities core damage and crit damage wasn't found via a formula, just a single parse with the most amount of frequency I could find (ie no UA, no TotT, no Hysteria, etc.) without talents already in Subversion.

I am still very interested in hearing other peoples opinions on taking this over BCB, or their personal results.