I was doing some parsing work on my monk and decided to test my long standing thought that keeping my ToV Gloves and ToV Pants equipped was beneficial for my dps because of the offensive and hand to hand bonuses. My initial posts on Vlar using only sune buffs had me a bit concerned:
Vlar on 3/11/2011 in 304sec with offense and hand to hand bonuses
Zeik
--- DMG: 380257 (100%) @ 1251 dps (1251 sdps)
Vlar on 3/11/2011 in 308sec without offense and hand to hand bonuses
Zeik
--- DMG: 532225 (100%) @ 1728 dps (1728 sdps)
I repeated the process on the CT dummy with longer parses, thinking that maybe the RNG had an effect. I also thought that the harder mob would allow the offensive and hand to hand bounses really shine. The same result followed:
Cazic Thule Dummy on 3/11/2011 in 4557sec with offense and hand to hand bonuses
Zeik
--- DMG: 3845125 (100%) @ 844 dps (844 sdps)
Cazic Thule Dummy on 3/11/2011 in 2448sec without offense and hand to hand bonuses
Zeik
--- DMG: 2644094 (100%) @ 1080 dps (1080 sdps)
I know you guys have a lot going on right now, but I thought that posting this may give more insight into some code issues. Or maybe this is a long standing bug I never knew about. But my assumptions that the mods helped was definitely off!
Edit: I forgot to mention that the item upgrade did upgrade ferocity and cleave one level (I went from ToV to ST armor). I don't think that would be enough to give me a 40% boost on Vlar, but I could be wrong.