I ran it again with that spec. Not going to repost the numbers, they were roughly similar- the spec and glyphs you requested came in 2nd from the bottom, 6 dps above 1/15/55 Hawk/SS and 31 dps below 1/15/55 KS/SS.

Your haste is about 50 lower than mine, so that could potentially account for the different results you're seeing in the spreadsheet.

Nowhere near as well as a spec with Resourcefulness maxed out due to the DPS loss from less Black Arrow uptime, regardless of your glyph choices. I'd suggest looking at the specs in a number of the posts just above yours.

Yea I missed that reduces cool down by x seconds part of that tooltip.

I just want to go out on a limb and this is the 1/15/55 spec, since there weren't any links to the post above.

So I've been reading up on the last few pages and there still seems to be a lot of back and forth as to which spec is going to be the best for us. So I'm wondering what spec/glyphs are gonna be the highest dps for us with full BIS gear as SV. Right now I'm thinking 1/15/55 with hawk/explosive/steady glyphs but losing that aimed shot glyph with aimed in my rotation seems like a travesty, and with the patch most likely dropping tomorrow, I'm really up against the wall here.

If you look at the numbers that have been posted from simulationcraft and spreadsheet testing, you'll find the differences between the most popular specs are pretty tiny at best and that which spec pulls ahead is somewhat depending on gearing. However everything I've seen has the hawk glyph performing lower than explosive/killshot/steady/serpent. I don't know about aimed but just from a guess I'd have to say the fact that there are multiple shots with higher priorities than aimed may mean that the 2 seconds saved on the cooldown won't always get utilized, which would make the glyph less powerful.

There is a lot of talk about glyphs here. On the PTR we could just buy them from the vendor and test them out. When this goes live tomorrow, will all the new glyphs be available immediately from the trainer or do they have to be researched?

That sounds about right I guess, I'm really not convinced about the KS glyph unless we end up spending signifcant time in KS range and that doesn't seem very likely to me, so I guess that leaves steady/serpent/explosive, and god knows if I'll even be able to find explosive glyph anywhere unless its vendor trained and not discovered.

I'm still not really sure about the specific talent point allocation and since I'm not really a spread sheet wiz (don't have excel) I'm not exactly sure what to go with but this spec/glyph setup seems to me like it would be top. Any ideas on if this is right/wrong and whats wrong with it?

I did a quick check in the sheet with my gear against a 1/15/55 spec. I took out all the glyphs except for explosive shot and checked the damage benefit for adding each one. This is what I got:

70.83 - KS
48.86 - steady
44.81 - hawk
41.86 - serpent
27.81 - aimed

I expect some of the glyphs do tend to affect how much damage benefit the others give, so take the numbers with a grain of salt.

I would also say that if you have a fairly high amount of haste (and are typically in a raid with someone providing the haste buff), you may do better moving that point from hawk to hunting party or imp stings (or even focused aim if you have enough hit gems in your gear to see a benefit from switching them out). For my gear I'm finding the imp hawk talent to not perform as well as the alternatives.

I have been searching the forums but cannot seem to find information about which pet will be the best in terms of dps and which pet-spec will be the highest dps for the patch.

I am a survival hunter, currently using a raptor. I read in some random places that wolves will be the new top dps pet. Is that true? and what spec are people finding is the best for a ferocity pet?

Why take 3 points in Hawk Eye and not Trap Mastery?