Expertise: 6,5% or 26 Expertise needed for Dodge cap
Hit Rating: 8% is the Hit cap for special and 2H attacks, 27% -3% for Nerves of Cold Steel for DW, keep in mind that those 3% also add up to special attacks for DW, so you'd only need to have 5% Hit as DW to never miss specials.
Spell hit cap is 17% - 3% for Misery -3% for Virulence = 11% needed. Only a few skills of ours use spell hit cap, Icy Touch, Death Coil, Unholy Blight, Howling Blast AND Mind Freeze, however it's highly adviseable to get the 289 Hit Rating as DW Frost. Remember that spell hit cap is on a different conversion ratio than melee hit (check your spell tab in character screen). You will be very close to spell hit cap at 8% melee hit (with Virulence).
Strength
This is the best stat for all specs, and it's recommended to gem for Strength, especially if you are a person that changes specs as often as normal people change underwear. The only reason to not gem Strength would be that you are missing Hit for the 8% or you're playing DW and are missing Expertise for the Expertise cap.
Something interesting to note from the ensidia guide...
The Frost rotation is very tight and bad latency, human failure or just movement bosses will result in a huge DPS loss. Personally I like to call Frost a "stationary spec" because when you stand still, with a bit of luck it'll result in the highest personal DPS a spec can offer. The luck factor is quite large though, so in the end it'll turn out to be just the same DPS as Blood or Unholy, considering both specs are played right.
Blood on the other hand has a much more relaxed and enjoyable rotation. It's not like the old Unholy rotation where you could eat a whole pizza between rotation transitions, but it's also not as tight as Frost. It offers a lot of DPS, especially the T9 set has really good stats for Blood. Hysteria and DRW are 2 timers which you'll have to use wisely to maximize your DPS at all times and the variety in the spec is what makes me enjoy Blood the most.
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