Omen of clarity procs are not amplified by berserk, and getting too many omen of clarity procs during berserk can cause you to be unable to spend all your energy during berserk, which would result in loss of damage. Therefore it is advantageous, if only slightly, to deliberately not use berserk during bloodlust.

Doing a quick look in Rawr, you're not too far off from it's predicted DPS. Also note that Str. food would give you a 25 DPS increase over Hit food. What flask or elixers were you using? Lastly a Warrior keeping Trauma up should increase DPS. Keep that in mind when comparing.

Has anyone looked into why Rawr and Tossk's site give such wildly different values for stats? Another thing I noticed was that Rawr either undervalues or Tossk overvalues a metagem in a helm. I couldn't find any discussion of these differences here besides the fact that they exist.

@ Valerian:

I don't know how much you have dug yourself into the differences between Toskk and Rawr (Astrylian) before posting here. There are some minor differences, but nothing big. When comparing them it is vital that you enter the correct information in both of them. This has been brought up many times and the differences explained by both Astrylian and Toskk. If you cant find the information in this thread, try looking in the now closed "Feral Druid Megathread" or on the druid wiki pages.

Perhaps I've been lucky, my opener has never pulled aggro.
FF on the run in
Mangle - SR - Rake - Shred - TF+Berserk - Shred to 5 - Rip - Shred but reapply Rake - SR - Shred but reapply Mangle - FB
Perhaps using it later in the fight when full sunders, and all the other debuffs are up would provide me more DPS, actually, I'd count on it being more DPS if I were better at my rotation. But this gets me in a groove, it sets up my cycles at a high point, so if I do screw up (and I do fat finger SR instead of FB sometimes) I'm usually only losing downtime on one thing, not 2.

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The other MT in the guild maintains over 6k TPS, in order to outpace them on TPS I need to do over 8.5k DPS. Since we use Misdirect and Tricks of the Trade, they're also going to have a 20k lead on me by the time I get in there. Mind you, I don't use this opener on Patchwerk because the OTs aren't quite as good and I don't feel like taking a hurtful, nor do I use it on Razuvious (well, not anymore) because we get more breaks in the first 30 seconds than in the rest of the fight.

This is a reason to NOT pop berserk as an immediate opener, however after the first 5-10 seconds of a fight, I've never been able to pull aggro off any of our MTs with berserk (and I've certainly tried for funsies).

That said, I haven't worried too much about berserking during bloodlust because I set my berserks up so that I'll only need to refresh rake in the middle, Rip and SR should be good to go throughout the entire duration, so I'm basically just shred-spamming for 15 seconds. Assuming I berserk at 100 energy, I'm still only able to shred-spam for about 9 seconds before I'm energy-starved, and have to wait for a period longer than the GCD to shred again. So the question in my mind becomes, given a normal or average number of OOC procs during the 15-second berserk, should I be able to shred-spam my way through the whole thing? If yes, that suggests I shouldn't pop it during bloodlust, right? If no, doesn't bloodlust become more advantageous? I'm worried I'm not thinking about this just right, so I'd appreciate additional thoughts on this.

There isn't much of an overlap (Berserk only helps your yellow attacks, Bloodlust only helps your white attacks). To the extent that there is it's due to Omen of Clarity and negative - you get the same increased attack speed and hence the same expected number of additional Omen procs from a Bloodlust whether you have Berserk up or not. If you do have Berserk up you are more likely to waste some of those extra Omen procs by not being able to spend all your energy.

This, I found it counterproductive to save Berserk for Bloodlust for the exact same reason: you wasted a part of berserk even if just 1 OOC proc put you at 100 energy at any given time.

As for actions performed during Berserk, as long as it's your highest DPE move, doubling the DPE will not change their priority. This means that as long as any action put you at 100 energy for any reason, you should be doing your normal priority list.

Has anyone collected any data on dps unbuffed on target dummies? I'd like to have an easier way to compare my current dps to others instead of only a few laggy Patchwerk attempts. Rawr predicted unbuffed I should be at 3276dps and after 10 different 3 min tests (some using fb when opportune, some just aiming for max bleed uptime) I was able to get between 88% and 95% of my predicted dps. How close to others get to their optimal values?

Also, what other cat models exist and do they more accurately model (or simulate) estimated cat dps. I've heard about Toskk's model although I haven't looked him up since TBC, and I seem to remember nightcrowler had a cat sim during the beta, are those up to date?

Edit: Toskk's Model Estimates me at 2964dps unbuffed.

Personally, Rawr was actually on the low end of estimated DPS. Not by a ton, but by a bit. I suspect it undervalues combo point generation from crit; most of the more successful cats I have seen have emphasized crit over strength and found better overall results. This is against real-world mobs and not target dummies.

Toskk is the other main model. I don't personally like it that much; it doesn't value hit/expertise highly enough for my tastes.

none, strength is simply better than agility for your dps. Your T7 gear is already heavy on agility, so you shouldnt have a problem with overall crit% being too low. Simply put, 1 STR= 2 AP and 1 AGI= 1 AP. Gemm for hit if you need it, strength if your capped. This is my philosophy.

Under no circumstances should you gem feral gear for mana regen.

I assume maxdps.com has not updated their values for WOTLK, as strength is now irrefutably superior to agility for dps.

My suggestion is to stop using maxdps.com and and download Rawr