Rather small update today but somewhat important.
Mostly sparked by a few boomkins I've spoken to and the general consensus going into 5.4, as well as partly due to my post in the Changes and Thoughts thread (
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...1#post22331399), I've decided to change the default talents from Inc/HotW to Inc/DoC. DoC seems like a particularly strong talent, but in the event that HotW is mostly taken I'll revert this change.
Nonetheless, with DoC selected there's but one change in gear I can find: offhand from Revelations of Y'Shaarj to Juggernaut's Power Core. While the JPC has less secondary stats overall, it allows us to get a lot more crit and doesn't affect our hit rating (more spirit would be very difficult to remove), at the expense of some mastery. Because mastery is quite a bit lower than crit, and also because DoC is better with less mastery, this change nets an increase of around 400 DPS. So far I haven't been able to find anything else that results in an increase, and Rik'kal's ends up being a loss because the hit on it isn't amplified.
I'll change these two things around, and with 5.4 just around the corner I'm sure I can supplement some findings with WoL logs and SimCraft sims soon enough.