I'm aware of what stat sets you run I was just curious about the ilvl of the weapon. Obviously you were unsure about this too concept so might have been good for more people than me to mention it.

Are you sure that is a wise thing to do though Foxx? Wouldn't it be smarter to have the BiS-pre-3.2-set run with 2x 179 dpsers (since the only 188 dpser i know of is Sorthalis, that has a speed of 1.6) & the post 3.2 statset use 3.2 weapons (I'm not sure what kind of ilvl you would aim for, early or late etc). Is there even an ilvl of weapon with a 200 dps? I just think it's better to be totally accurate with these things than just assume 180 (no weapon has exactly 180!) or 200.

Hard to say. I have been in a few raids and pulled top dps in each one, even the caster heavy ones but unfortunately the PTR is swarmed with premades. I could play with my buttcheeks and outdps a premade. I do more DW dps on the ptr than i do on live with 2h blood, that much is certain. This bothers me, i wouldnt be surprised if DW gets nerfed shortly after it goes live.

I use custom made chars and priorities for each spec (modified my spreadsheet, so I can simply copy&paste a char), so I don't have to use unfitting premade chars.
My results seem to vary a lot with increasing latency. With 50ms, I should have that ingame, it's Unholy spam>Frost DW>Blood. Changing the latency to 150ms gives me Frost DW>Unholy spam>Blood.
Frost DW also produces a lot of threat, maybe a 3/5x/xx spec is the best.
I don't really trust those results. Right now Blood is the best spec, but the theorycrafting doesn't fully reflect that. Well, let's wait for some live results .

The 178dps->188dps weapon upgrade is about 100dps total.

50 ms on a sim is just too low even if that is what you usually have ingame, you'll have to factor in the human factor.

About what's absolutely best that's just hard to determine at the moment, the unholy 2H theorycrafting is going kind of slow but a new spec just came up with ~7k using the 2nd statset - blood i have no clue about. We will just have to wait and see, or rather: keep testing and see.

Edit: spelling.

Okay, another Rawr post. I know Rawr isn't as accurate as the simulator, but from my testing and your comments it only seems rough in a few places and let's face it: Rawr is easier for noobs like me to use. I editted V. Heart in Rawr so it has the current PTR nerfed value.

These tests are all done in my current gear (you can armory me, highlights are Death's Bite(FC)+Awareness) except where stated, and I've been buffed with Horn of Winter, Imp. Mark of the Wild, Imp. Icy Talons, B. Kings. I've only got roughly 9% ArP as of writing this.

The reason I did these tests specifically was because I am a huge fan of Unholy Presence, and going back to a 1.5sec GCD makes me feel a little sad. Also, I believe Blizzard has always wanted us to use all of our diseases, and only wants us to DW in a deep Frost build, so I'm not looking at other alternatives here. I'm basically trying to zero in on how my playstyle is going to change come-3.2.

Live Unholy Presence + Awareness (estimate of my current state)
3.1 mode, standard 17/51/3 build
2 diseases, 20sec, 1xIT, 1xPS, 1xHB, 4xOB, 2xBS, autoFS
Death's Bite (FC)
3121 DPS

3.2 Unholy Presence + Awareness (best 3.2 option for me)
3.2 mode with ToT, 0/53/18 build (full KM+BCB, no UA/DC)
2 diseases, 20sec, 1xIT, 1xPS, 1xHB, 4xOB, 2xBS, autoFS
2x Razorscale Talons
RI+RI = 4773 DPS
FC+RI = 4774 DPS
FC+FC = 4783 DPS

3.2 Blood Presence + Awareness
3.2 mode with ToT, 0/53/18 build (full KM+BCB, no UA/DC)
2 diseases, 20sec, 1xIT, 1xPS, 0.5xHB, 4xOB, 2xBS, autoFS
2x Razorscale Talons
RI+RI = 4468 DPS
FC+RI = 4472 DPS
FC+FC = 4482 DPS

Now, obviously there's no priority system in place in Rawr, so I can't tell it that I'm saving Rime procs for Howling Blasts or Frost Strike or anything. And those Blood Presence numbers are off, as I've seen the simulator outputs and believe the math that shows Blood Presence generally beating Unholy Presence by a few percent.

I checked using Razorice with Cinderglacier, and it was always 150-200 DPS lower than the next best option.
I compared the 0/53/18 build with a few variations on builds with a Blood sub-spec, but they were always 100-150 DPS lower.

I compared V. Heart to Awareness, and it was always 50-100 DPS lower, but obviously favoured enchants including Razorice. It will definitely be worth re-running just these numbers once Rawr knows that Razorice is a 10% buff to Frost instead of just 5%.

Anyway, according to Rawr I have a decent buff coming which is nice. I'd say most of that is from the massive leap from a Naxx10 weapon to 2x Ulduar10 ones. Incidentally, if I switch to these weapons and a BCB build right now, I'll only lose roughly 150 DPS. :P I think I just might do this and see how I go.

Hit is rated at 353 until special ability cap only, right? What's it rated for white hits after special cap?

No idea. You will have to wait for someone with greater math skills than I to figure that one out. Also dont take my test of the bible, more tests need to be ran with more up to date versions of the sim before we can decide on stat weights.

Hmm, I had a look but perhaps it's exhaustion that's stopping me finding the clear answer....
What sort of hit rating should I gear for ideally in a 3/51/17 spec? Should I be aiming to spellhit cap? Is that at all important? Or should I leave it at 8% for specials? Saying that, does the hit from DW talents contribute towards capping specials? Should I be gearing for (and to me this doesn't seem likely) 5% hit and then going all out on dps stats?

Sorry to be annoying, this has possibly been answered already, but I've been tweaking my gear setup in preparation for 3.2 and wondering if I should be swapping out some hit gear.

After all the smoke settles and people get to see what the changes are like live, is the current cookie cutter Blood dps build going to be viable anymore? The dw spec sounds like it would be more interesting to play, but having to suck on the dm until I could pick up a couple of good 1h weapons is'nt all that appealing of an idea.

As any spec you want to at least hit the soft hit cap(8%). For DW, however, most of your dmg comes from white attacks and having more hit then the soft cap is very good. Getting spell hit capped should not be on your list of things-to-do because in a raid(25 man atleast) you should easily achieve the spell hit cap.

I'm not completely sure about the DW talent contributing towards special hit cap so someone please correct me if im wrong, but if i remember correctly it doesn't contribute. The talent states "increases your chance to hit with one-handed melee weapons by _%". I say it doesn't because it only says melee weapons rather then special attacks like it does for the rogue talent called "Precision: Increases your chance to hit with weapon and poison attacks by _%." Meaning all attacks done by the weapons the rogue is using have a higher chance to hit.

@Foxx:
I'm well aware of how Kahorie's simulator works (been using it for live for ages but not tested the 3.2-one yet), but thanks. What I was curious about was simply at what lvl of gear this statset is likely to be compared to, if it matches BiS Ulduar-gear or more of the 3.2 loot. Also what ilvl of the weapon as this should in my opinion match the ilvl you sim for 2H with. Like with your blood/DW-test here, if you used 200 dpsers like you said was in the simulator as standard that's higher than Aesir's Edge.

Also, are you in to the blood scene? Is 51/0/20 actually still the preferred bloodspec for 3.2? If these numbers are correct it seems even unholy is passing blood on single target dps - it just seems weird.