Aside from allowing a PS+IT-to-SS substitution, the SS glyph also effectively gives 4 additional ticks of diseases over a 60-sec rotation, because the disease ticks will line up perfectly with disease reapplication at 10 ticks 30 seconds apart (instead of 6 ticks 20 seconds apart, giving 18 sec of effective disease uptime every 20 sec).

However, even with that, I don't see how you can get a 250 DPS increase from the glyph. You get one SS-for-PS+IT substitution every 60 sec. I don't think SS will do 13+k more than PS+IT to account for that kind of DPS increase. With SS in its current obliterated state, the glyph possibly won't give that kind of DPS increase even if it lets SS extend diseases indefinitely.

Disease dropping is an overall DPS increase in this case. If you reapplied the disease at the 20+latency-sec mark, the disease would tick 5+latency seconds from the previous tick (which is very close to the worst-case scenario for a refresh); if you reapplied the disease at the 30+latency-sec mark, the disease would tick 3+latency seconds from the previous tick. As long as you reapply BP first, your IT will get the RoR bonus. Over a 60-sec rotation, you effectively gain 4 ticks of disease, which is significantly more damage than you lose from no RoR bonus for PS.

I used my BiS Unholy set, so there's no room for any further scaling .


I bet it will be refreshed to 21s and the SS counter won't be resetted. The SS glyph would be a waste anyway, since you have to refresh your diseases after 20s.

Removed the Epidemic-less builds from the OP. Didn't consider the AoE implications - even if the lack of epidemic + the presence of GoSS are dps gains on single target, they aren't huge ones (<100), and the potential AoE cost just seems way too large (not just from an individual perspective, but from a raid one with EP falling), especially when you consider that is where we shine. You give up too much for too little.

The one thing I'm questioning is the possibility of 16/0/55 (similar to the old 17/0/54, except Desolation maxed). It comes down to what's superior - 1pt in Necrosis or 1pt in Dark Conviction. Previously, Necrosis won by a small margin, but now? With UB benefitting from crit (the old version didn't) and diseases benefiting from crit (obviously huge)? Might work out. Still can't swap builds in my sim, although it's likely due to user stupidity. Else wise I would test it myself.

Also, to Moon above, your build is wrong. You cannot sacrifice Wandering Plague. Well, I mean, you could, but you wouldn't want to. Not in any of the various specs being tossed around. It is that much dps on single target (let alone on multiple targets). 7/10/54 could work, but not at the cost of WP.