Actually item budget wise Cultist's+4pc is the best combination due to the excessive stamina on Ikfirus (see here).

Cultist's vs Aldriana's are identical, the only difference is in the respective Tier pieces.

Tier Shoulders have Hit, while Tier Gloves have Haste and since it's easy to reforge crit->hit, the haste makes Tier Gloves+Cultist's the superior combination.

I'll give you a hint: the answer starts with "re" and ends with "forging"

Was messing around with this. But not MoS ironically, lol.

Vendetta updates Rupture dynamically. So does Hemo.

However, increases/decreases in AP, Agi, Crit do not. (and I'd assume Haste, although it has no effect on our dots anyway). Things like trinkets, Weapon/Enchant procs, raid buffs/procs. The Bleed keeps the value of the first tick regardless of how your AP changes for better or worse.

This means in an ideal situation you want all your proc buffs up at once when you put the bleed up. This typically happens right at the start of a fight.

If I remember I'll check out MoS. If I had to guess, I'd assume it works like Vendetta and Hemo, as they are flat % increases. But who knows.

Rumor is that Blizz wants dots/bleeds to update every tick in Cata. I'd prefer this tbh.

I believe what you are looking for is on the first page of this thread. Aldriana's post.

But what is says is expertise cap and spell hit cap (not white), then haste and hit only where you can't put haste.
Note this is combat only.

hmm, judging from your quote "unless we happen to find outselves already near it from gear", does that mean mastery is superior at a certain rating and/or white hit cap becomes better when most of my gears are giving hit? without any reforge, i am already at 561 hit, thus i needed a little more reforge to actually reach white cap, where as if i reforge them to mastery, would i actually be downgrading myself for not having enough mastery, since mastery acts a little bit like expertise, every certain amount of mastery adds damage by 2.5% rather than damage increase per mastery rating point

No, I meant that the only time you should consider trying to reach the white cap is when your hit is already close to it, sort of like your example, but you shouldn't be reforging to mastery as combat. Currently mastery is very weak for combat, hence the .6 EP rating. From reforging you should be reforging expertise over the cap and crit to haste. Unless the piece of gear already has haste, then you should reforge it to hit. Also, note that the EP value of haste is higher than white hit, so if you have a piece of gear with large amount of hit and that piece of gear doesn't have haste, reforging it to haste would be an upgrade.

Also, to what I have quoted from above, unless it is different that assassination's mastery, 1 point in mastery will indeed increase the damage by 2.5%, but partial points from rating will still increase the damage. Example: 5 mastery would increase the damage by 12.5%, 5.65 mastery would increase the damage by 14.125%(5.65 * 2.5).

Every point of mastery rating gives full benefit. You don't have to worry about specific amounts.

As for hit rating, if you are at 561 hit before reforging, you don't have to worry about getting any more hit. Expertise is still the best stat to reforge to, then haste -> mastery (for mutilate) -> hit -> crit.

I just wanted to point out a rather interesting observation. Not sure if it was mentioned before, couldn't find it.

For AoE, and general trash that lives more then 20 seconds, you will find it beneficial to have your thrown weapon poisoned with Deadly Poison, since it procs your main hand poison as well. ( instant or wounding).

Assassination will benefit significantly from this, while combat and sub might find wounding poison more beneficial on FoK weapon( If the range bug has been fixed).

For Assassination it's a possibility, though it's not as clear-cut as you might think - but lets look at (for instance) Combat for a moment. Combat regens about 20 energy per second, and FoK costs 35 energy; hence, in 20 seconds, you regen 400 energy, plus the 100 you start with, meaning you'll get around 14 FoKs off. Each one has a 30% chance to proc DP, which means you expect to have about 4.2 procs of DP per target. Which is, sadly, rather less than the 5 you need to start proccing MH poison. Subtlety is largely in the same boat - Slaughter From the Shadows makes FoK cheaper, but the lack of Vitality means you have less energy regen, and then net result is that you still don't really get enough DP procs to see MH procs.

For Assassination, energy regen is likely around 14 per second (assuming you don't have rupture running, which for a 20 second AoE pack is usually a good assumption), plus 120 starting energy, works out to about 400 energy and thus 11 FoKs in 20 seconds. Each has a 50% chance to proc your DP from the OH, so we *do* actually get up to 5 stacks right around the 20 second mark. Hence, on a 20 second fight, we do actually get bonus MH procs from DP on our ranged weapon; in particular, in 11 FoKs we expect to get 5.5 MH poison procs from FoK, versus 4.24 if we just put IP on our thrown weapon directly. So for a 20 second (11 FoK) fight, yes, DP is perhaps a bit better. However, now lets look at, say, a 8 FoK fight: now we get 8 DP procs (4 from OH, 4 from thrown) and thus 3 MH poison procs; meanwhile, if we just put IP on our thrown weapon, we'd get about 3.1 MH procs.

So, in short: on a long enough fight, DP will pass IP for Assassination - the crossover is probably around 8 FoKs, or a little under 15 seconds. Since fights of this duration are actually somewhat common, it may well make sense to make the switch. However, for Combat and Subtlety, its not even *close* to worth it.

Also, I would think that DP on the thrown distributes DP to the trash faster, activating Master Poisoner buff sooner for +8% spell damage, improving rDPS.

I think I assumed that your OH weapon poison doesn't proc when you FoK as Combat. And what's more, that's a completely legitimate assumption, because it doesn't.