Old math there. The change to Unholy's mastery makes mastery a lot better than crit, especially with the shift of your damage proportions more onto your diseases and SS from your pets.
There's a logical disconnect here that's very common if you haven't looked at the math behind it.
If you lose 1% expertise for 1% haste (This is not the exact math), you do not necessarily lose 1% white damage / strike hits over the course of an encounter. In addition, if you have empty GCDs at any point, missing a strike does not matter, at least for Unholy. 1% haste is always a DPS gain, though, as far as rune regen and white damage, as well as pet damage, is concerned. Pet damage is not affected by expertise, making haste affect more of your overall damage.
Expertise is heavily focused on for Frost because the spec is GCD-capped and a dodged or missed strike still consumes Killing Machine. Unholy has no such restriction.
The math incorporates Heroism and Unholy Frenzy. It's still not worth it to cap it unless you have so much expertise that you still have 26 even after reforging all of it off.
If you have that much you've made a gearing mistake somewhere along the line, however.
Whoa! EJ is technically out of date and will be for quite some time until somebody else picks up Consider's work.
That said, expertise isn't necessarily required for Unholy because the spec isn't GCD-capped and a large portion of its damage (Diseases, Death Coil, pet damage) isn't affected by the stat, whereas only diseases manage to dodge the expertise requirement for Frost.
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Mar 9th 2011 7:48PM (WoW)If you lose 1% expertise for 1% haste (This is not the exact math), you do not necessarily lose 1% white damage / strike hits over the course of an encounter. In addition, if you have empty GCDs at any point, missing a strike does not matter, at least for Unholy. 1% haste is always a DPS gain, though, as far as rune regen and white damage, as well as pet damage, is concerned. Pet damage is not affected by expertise, making haste affect more of your overall damage.
Expertise is heavily focused on for Frost because the spec is GCD-capped and a dodged or missed strike still consumes Killing Machine. Unholy has no such restriction.
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Mar 9th 2011 11:39AM (WoW)If you have that much you've made a gearing mistake somewhere along the line, however.
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Mar 9th 2011 4:13AM (WoW)That said, expertise isn't necessarily required for Unholy because the spec isn't GCD-capped and a large portion of its damage (Diseases, Death Coil, pet damage) isn't affected by the stat, whereas only diseases manage to dodge the expertise requirement for Frost.