Originally Posted by Feorthas
Pred Instincts states that it increases the bonus damage by 10% (as opposed to the net damage).
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This is not correct. The text from Predatory Instinct reads: While in Cat Form, Bear Form, or Dire Bear Form, increases your damage from melee critical strikes by 2% [per point] and your chance to avoid area effect attacks by 3% [per point]. Originally it had SAID it only increased the bonus damage but it always functionned by increasing the total damage. One or two patches ago they updated the tooltip to the text I posted above.
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As a side note, I wonder if our differing valuations for the stats are generated from using a different testing methodology & definitions (and my generally weaker tests, which are pretty much doomed to have poorer accuracy by definition); for example, I refuse to call something a 'cycle' unless I start and end at roughly the same point, especially when energy & debuffs are concerned whereas everyone else seems to use the 1 Mangle, 3 Shreds, & Rip 'cycle' (with excess energy just kinda going into the void?).
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Usually for those doing a mangle/3 shred/rip cycle end up dividing by the total energy used for this to determine DPS. As such the "extra" energy isnt wasted or anything its just taken into account in terms of decimals. Due to the fact that varying crit rates and different energy returns on a miss/dodge, finding an optimal true cycle seems extremely difficult and far too time consuming since it would need to be redone for every different crit/hit chance.
Due to the complex nature of modelling the yellow attacks I think a simulator using a RNG and thousands of seconds of attacks is probably a simpler way to get the desired results. I dont have any experience coding such things except in basic C so I wont be able to make a pretty interface or anything for it but I am working on a program to do this so hopefully I can get that done soon and post the code which may help some.