Ramuh.Merlinjr said:
On a side note, are you aware of any atma's that will lessen the frequency of whiffing with Predator Claws?
Frustrating that I can easily one-shot some Plateau Hare's with PC and other times barely dent them.
Actually, what is probably causing the variation is not that she is whiffing, but that she is not doing crits. Crits are a massive part of Pred Claws. You can do 300 damage with Pred Claws and still land all 3 hits (you can verify this by checking avatar's TP).
What you really need to do is cap out crit rate. I suggest Razed Ruins & Gnarled Horn for this. As others have said, increasing STR helps a lot too. In my experience the best combo for Pred Claws is:
Voracious Violet + Razed Ruins + Gnarled Horn
Basically STR & Crit Rate are where it's at. Don't use Apocalypse unless you want the Auto-Reraise. DA & TA are pointless on BPs because they don't gain the modifiers of the BP. They are just normal attacks for 100-200 extra damage. Also don't worry about crit damage, you would think something like Sanguine Scythe would be awesome based on what I said above, but it turns out Pred Claws has a natural ~20-30% crit damage bonus, and the cap is 50% so Razed Ruins caps you out there. Between Razed Ruins & Gnarled Horn, you should have capped crit damage bonus and damn near capped crit rate (~90%).