2.1.0 Patch Notes

[Concillian]

A has 500 strength, granting 1000 AP. With Vitality, this becomes 550 strength, for a total of 1100 AP. He also has 500 AP from non-strength sources, for a grand total of 1600 AP.
B has the exact same stats, 500 strength and 500 AP. He gets 10% more from strength--for a total of 1100 AP from strength--as well as 10% more from the 500 AP--550 AP--for a grand total of 1650 AP.

It seems to me you're only counting the Improved Berserker Stance bonus when doing specials. It affects white damage as well, y'know.

I'm not going into white damage here. Flurry makes white damage immensely more complex. Look at the Fury sheets and the prot sheets and you can see how I'm incorporating it into white damage. Needless to say I am factoring it in to the white damage calculations.

It's not a small factor. 2-3% more DPS is 2-3% Protection simply doesn't have. How can you ignore a DPS increase when discussing potential DPS builds?

Compared to 100 -150 DPS, 2-3 % is an order of magnitude different. I'll gladly drop 2-3% deep wounds to gain 10x that on being able to use rage more efficiently. It's a liability anyway... it tremendously hinders your ability to use Intim. shout in PvP and solo, and limits CC options when things go wrong in 5-mans. It's good damage per talent points, but if I can manage a build with good damage that doesn't have deep wounds, I definitely prefer not to have it. It's a prereq for impale, but it's actually better damage per talent point than impale. I'mpale is among the worst talents in all the trees for damage per talent point, but for some reason it looks really attractive to people.