Feather is the reason everyone is going Unholy
Feather is the reason everyone is going Unholy
dw is shit single target if you believe simcraft
Perhaps you should qualifiy that to say "I only think it's viable to play Unholy on those fights." If you look at the logs you'll see that for most of the fights on the tier Unholy has produced equal and sometimes superior results to Frost. You can also look at the number of Unholy players progressing in top tier guilds as ample evidence that Frost's superiority is not as clear cut as your lack of argumentation would suggest.
perhaps you go for unholy if you get a better 2h weapon, wich result in higher dps
Not doubting unholys strength but frost has more multi utility and strengths, unholy has still been a debate to switch in my books but the biggest thing is that, you cannot use 25 man heroic logs as many are skewed and very few are posted yet. many top end guilds dont post logs yet
Also like many fights like garalon legs, it depends on the /roll on who gets to parse this week and gets priority on long aoes to up dps
Last edited by mmoce994820d54; 2013-03-22 at 03:41 PM.
Feather is almost like Gurthalak was in Cataclysm. You get a huge boost when you get one, since you can get an additional 15k Str on your diseases :P
Make no mistake, Unholy is doing well on all sorts of add based fights. Burst or not, you can continue to rattle off huge AoE damage even after the mobs may have spread out, or you move to another target.
It requires a bit different gear/stats than Frost, but it's looking very good right now.
I had to test Unholy out on Horridon and it was pretty beastly in LFR. I did 275k (without any determination buffs). Mainly just stayed on the boss on the first door and then helped with adds by spreading diseases on the higher HP adds.
Seemed to work really well without solely tunneling Horridon. I imagine results would be higher on Heroic considering you stay in the 200% phase for a lot longer. My blood plague was critting for like 240k once he smashed the fourth door.
as stated earlier, UH & frost have their advantages on different fights...it's coming down that DW Frost & UH are pretty close at the moment and I'd take it down to playstyle as well as, obviously, what weapon(s) you have available to yourself and what you could optimize better for yourself since UH & Frost have some different stat priorities.
Playing with a 2H weapon is more versatile since switching between the 2H specs only needs a push of a button, as your weapon and stat priorities stay the same. As DW it's harder to switch to a more single target centric spec for fights other than the few fights that require burst aoe you want to be DW for e.g. Megaera, and the dps increase on single target as 2H is substantial, mostly due to the Festerblight playstyle and the trinkets this tier (RPPM uptimes are bad for DW), but also when comparing to the standard playstyles of Unholy and 2H Frost. The recent howling blast nerf didn't leave much incentive to stay DW either, as you can put out similiar numbers on cleave/sustained aoe as Unholy, which works better on fights like Horridon and Tortos where the adds aren't stacked in HB splash range all of the time and include execute phases. DW excels on fights like Megaera where the adds are bursted down fast, but the problem with this is that extra damage on adds that get blown up either way in a matter of seconds mostly doesn't matter, although this depends on your raid comp and damage.
Why would you think Unholy is only viable on cleave? Festerblight tops single target. Unholy is optimal or good on 10/12 of the fights (viable on Megaera), exceptions being Ji-Kun and Primordius, which you want to go 2H Frost on from what I've heard about how the buffs work and about the ghoul despawning mid flight on Ji-Kun.