A good portion of an Unholy DK's damage comes from his pet, so the DK himself will produce less threat than non-pet classes.

You must take into account that you can and should combine the Synapse Springs with Avenging Wrath which boosts your 480 str. every 2nd time you use them. In Raid circumstances you have a lot of transitions and movement where the tailoring procc is running without any use, while an AV with the gloves can be timed which will provide a higher usage for your overall dps. Ina tank and spank encounter you should not delay AV for the tailoring procc because of a possible loss of AVs used, so the Synapse Springs wins from my point of view.

10 seconds every minute should give an average of 80 like other profs. Being able to stack the benefit under every other AW+Zeal is theoretically at least a +10% boost, but that also means you're likely not using it exactly on the 1 min mark every time which will counteract at least some of that benefit.

Tailoring seems to be the only bonus that's way out of line still.

SO interesting circumstance here in the coming patch.

Which would be more desirable? Our T11 Chest (+ 188 Haste/228 Crit) or our T11 Legs (+ 228 Mastery/188 Hit) with the Mastery buff? Should we forgo the haste bonus to obtain a lot more mastery and then go for the crafted chest that has +mastery (since I didn't see any raid boss drops that have a +mastery chest) or just stick with the idea of getting as much haste as we can and then reforging some of the crit on the Chest to mastery?

I was under the impression that even if mastery becomes a desirable stat, it would still be far away from STR, leaving both t11 tank chest or the helm from Valiona as our most desirable offsets, one or another, not both of course.

But that will still depend on how it will be applied to live, we are both just speculating. But as it is at this momment, redcape numbers still show STR much more intresting than mastery.

Seems like Mastery was toned down some on the PTR, perhaps because they realized with the boost from Inq it would be too strong. Has someone been able to determine if Inq effects Mastery in the latest build?

The tanking helm from Valiona has already had its extra str converted into parry rating to make it less attractive to dps; I haven't heard anything about the t11 tanking chest yet, but I'm sure it will be changed as well. The Mastery comparisons in this thread were related to Mastery/Haste/Crit, I doubt anyone thought the boost was going to put Mastery ahead of Str. We still gem for pure Str, but intead of reforging mastery off of gear we will be trying to get as much as possible.

The build is still the old one, so no changes really (which is a bit odd, since we've had patch notes for a while now).

So isn't License to Slay BiS for the simple reason that it overbudgets str compared to every other trinket?

H Heart of Rage

Exp 363
2178 Str for 20 Seconds. I was under the impression that trinket procs provide close to the same value as the static stat value on the trinket when considering uptime so ==> 363 (16.67% x 2178 = 363.07)

License to slay

321 Hit
380 passive str after ramp up.

So you lose out on 42 secondary stat points compared to the heroic heart or rage (or other heroic melee trinkets for that matter) but you gain 17 str.

17 str > 42 secondary stat rating

Sure there is a ramp up time as well as not being able to time the icd with other effects, but this seems like a real winner. That is unless 4.06 really screws that much with the secondary stat weights.

My apologies if I'm missing something

I was using these stat weights.

Licence to Slay - 380 Str with a chance of dropping it all.
Heart of Rage - 1926 Str for 20s with ICD of 90s which makes it - 1926*2/9 = 428. With a chance of triggering at the wrong time.

Basically IMO Heart of Rage is better. And since you can change trinkets on the fly by just reforging some gear - if you prefer Licence to Slay - feel free to use it.

I haven't included DMC:H since I didnt do the math for it... :/
After doing the math it seems that DMC:H proc should be something in the lines of 700~DPS, which compared to Crushing Weight's 321 median haste is... much better. Tbh this would make DMC:H the best trinket.

And seeing how Heart of Rage gives 428 median STR I would probably go with DMC:H + Heart of Rage.
Thus making the trinket list:

1. DMC:H (321 STR + 700DPS)
2. Heart of Rage (428 mSTR + 192Exp / 128Mas)
3. License to Slay (380 mSTR + 321Hit)
4. Crushing Weight (321 STR + 321 mHas)

Correct me if I was somewhere wrong >_>

That would be assuming Heart of Rage has 100% chance to proc after the icd, which it doesn't.

If this is true then its almost certainly better than license to slay. It also means that Heart of Rage probably isn't working as intended (I'd be really curious to see where you got the 90s ICD from, though).

My understanding is that Cata trinkets are universally supposed to have an ICD that's 5 times their proc length, so the expected ICD for Heart of Rage would be 100 second. Furthermore, proc rates seem to be much lower across the board, so there will be some time after the ICD finishes before you actually get the proc again (wowhead lists the proc chance at 10%). Without knowing exactly what can trigger the proc its hard to tell for sure, but this lag could be anywhere from about 6 seconds on average (if auto-attacks and specials all get a double proc chance due to SoT) to around 30 seconds average (if only auto-attacks have a single proc chance).

On a somewhat related note: Blizzard seems to value these sorts of procs as if they had 1/6th uptime (which makes sense if the ICD is 5x the proc length plus some extra time before it procs again). Strangely, on use trinkets seem to be valued at 1/5th uptime when their proc lasts for 1/6th of their cooldown. This is what makes things like Impatience of Youth seem to be under budget, but its pretty clear from looking at a list of trinkets with "on use" effects that its like this across the board. Perhaps they figure the predictability makes them more valuable--if you're popping wings every time you use a trinket then you're getting ~20% more benefit out of it which brings it roughly in line with proc trinkets.

Looking at License to Slay from a budget perspective, fully stacked its worth 380 points, but its budget should only be 321 points. This means you need to get something like 85% uptime for it to be on-par with other 359 trinkets. If you can do better than that (which you can in a lot of current fights) then it should be effectively over budget. If you can get above ~95% uptime (which requires a ~5 min fight assuming a 30 second ramp up time) then its on par with the ~363 str that a 372 trinket would be expected to provide. To make up for the 321 hit compared to 363 rating points you'd get on a 372 trinket you'd need to get a bit more uptime out of it (better than 98% which requires nearly a 13 minute fight). So, License to Slay might not be 2nd BiS, but its should be fairly close to many of the 372 trinkets on most fights budget-wise (and noticeably above all the 359 trinkets). The detailed ordering, however, will depend on the specific effective cooldowns of the proc trinkets and if they get any extra benefit from cooldown stacking.

(From my limited testing, License to Slay stacks only from auto-attacks. Assuming a 3 second swing timer, it will take ~30 second to get the full 10 stacks up. Since the stacks are building during this time, you average a half stack over that first 30 seconds--or equivalently, you have nothing for 15 seconds and then a full stack thereafter. To calculate fight time required for a certain uptime percentage: 15 / (1 - desired_uptime) = fight_length).