Originally Posted by Valerian
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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Ah; wowhead is still using the "Bonus Damage" tooltip. I did model a *2.2 crit though.
Anyway, a hit still nets 83.3% of a crit, damage-wise. 16.7% less damage for 29% less cost works for me
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Originally Posted by Valerian
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.
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Yeah, coding GUIs isn't my thing either (I can design some good ones but hate coding & tweaking them). I may code up something in the next few days(/weeks) but we'll just have to see.