Originally Posted by
Tyrean
The DW thing has been discussed and used in previous seasons, but it ultimately turns out to be less damage DW than 2H. The reason is that yes, a lot of our damage is from diseases, pets and the delayed damage of necro but necro does have weapon damage, etc. It was mathed out and DW turned out to be behind 2H enough to essentially kill it.
Now, with that said I can see in certain comps where you would want to do this. I am thinking of boomkin and affliction comps in which you are not the person doing the killing, but your job is to rot everything, necro stack and stay alive. DW has an upper hand in that scenario in the sense that you can either go for more disease damage by taking advantage of double runeforges such as cinderglacier gives 20% to both diseases [may need to test since I have not used this since cata], disarm protection, silence reduction, or straight AP (which is not as strong as double crusader imo)
I don't think any less of Unholy players who choose to DW, I view it as preference. I will say that it is not optimal though.
As for pumping out damage, with the massive boost to unholy might I think new numbers need to be run to see if straight strength gemming out does mastery. I also believed in mastery because it increases BP, gargoyle and soul reaper. Strength of course increases EVERYTHING so I can see the recent changes pushing it waaaaay ahead.