I recently ran my lock through a variety of sims with the following variations:
Destro with all crit enchants / gems and every piece of gear I had in my bags with crit and then swapped out to mainly highest ilvl.
Demo with all mastery enchants / gems and every piece of gear that had haste or mastery over crit.
(I tend to run mastery as I run demo / destro)
I also messed with talents a few times trying to tweak some things as well as a couple of glyph changes.
The max I could achieve was with Demo hitting 25,900 dps in a patchwork sim.
Oddly my destro even with all mastery still managed a 25,400 in the same situation.
Questions:
First question: Are secondary stats worth a lot more than I am realizing? My gear is not ideally secondary stat optimized and my gear is basically whatever I can get my hands on.
Second question: Are the sim results that are posted based on BiS or do they include 4p tier? I am asking because at the 665 ilvl it shows destro being 31k (ahead of both of my specs currently at 669).
**nvm Self answered I looked it up and it appears to include the 4p tier bonus.