I'll compare Predatory Instincts and Naturalist talents, even though it's unclear if you mean Predatory Instincts or Predatory Strikes.
Predatory Instincts (5/5) increases your damage from critical hits by 10%. So in effect, it's equal to having 10% of your crit chance as extra damage. That's a rough way to estimate your damage gained by this talent. Meaning that 30% crit chance, will get a bonus of ~3% damage. 40% crit will yield a ~4% extra damage. This will NOT effect DoT damage.
Naturalist increases all damage you do(not 100% if it works on DoTs or not) by 10%(5/5). This might effect DoT damage as well, I'm not 100% sure.
So when comparing the 2, Naturalist gets the upper hand, if I'm not missing something crucial.
You aren't indeed. Naturalist is entirely better than Predatory Instincts in terms of increasing damage. You would need a crit rate of 100% for PI to be as good as Naturalist...
Why people do talent comparisons on stuff they should be picking both up on anyway is funny.
Naturalist is better for +Damage, Pred adds on AoE avoidance (which doesn't sound like much til it saves your behind). Just use both...
Theres very little Feral-related that isn't worth picking up. Feral Aggression is one of them (Demo Roar buff isnt that much, and Lawl at Fero Bite), and Nurturing Instinct is another (how it works now is alittle dumb, it should give a higher str to healing bonus and only apply so many secs after you shapeshift). The 15% to fear/stun talent can be skipped if you need those points elsewhere..its another talent that you really don't miss until it saves you.
naturalist beats out PI easily. however, you need PI to get heart of the wild, and heart of the wild destroys naturalist.
but really, when it comes down to it, you should have both. end game, pvp or pve, 10% damage is awesome, and you need PI to get HotW. this is assuming you want to be deep feral of course.
1- This thread was over 1 month old, thus considered as dead, which makes you a Necromancer. So you'll have to be burned, or first we'll see if you weight as much as a duck.
2- Quor must've posted while asleep or something. PI was confused for PS, which is the requirement for HotW. That 10% damage thing was in reference to Naturalist, not PI nor PS.