The final talent in the Beast Mastery tree for hunters, gives the ability to tame exotic pets like Devilsaurs and the elusive Spirit Beasts, plus gives 4 bonus pet talents bringing the total up to 20. Even if you don't run with an exotic, though truthfully Devilsaur DPS is scary even compared to Spirit Beasts, the 4 points means you can spec
Cobra Reflexes Rank 2,
Dash,
Culling the Herd Rank 3,
Spiked Collar Rank 3,
Blood Thirsty Rank 2,
Soider's Bite Rank 3,
Rabid,
Call of the Wild,
Shark Attack Rank 2, and
Wild Hunt Rank 2 that's every straight DPS talent in the ferocity tree, still BM lacks the power that other trees bring and Beast Mastery falls behind Chimera Shot and Explosive Shot for final talents, there was even a time where the optimal BM spec completely ignored the talent in favor of
Readiness from MM, of course back then Readiness worked on
Bestial Wrath. Now a days you won't see a self respecting Beast Master without it and at least one Exotic, either in the stables or with them right there. Still people aren't quite happy with BM, or exotics, particularly spirit beasts. Ever since the first Skoll people have felt slightly ticked. Spirit beast had two abilities
Spirit Strike and
Prowl Then Skoll showed up in the data files. People hoped for
Furious Howl and spirit strike. A new precedent pets in the same family with different abilities, or maybe even a new family. For as rare as spirit beasts are it wouldn't have been so strange. Sadly he was just a regular Spirit Beast, a ghost cat with a wolf skin, the same arguments occurred with Arcturis the new Bear spirit beast (a bear without swipe and a ferocity its a ferocity pet). For some folks that's awesome, they can raid with a bear with out sacrificing the already lower BM DPS. For other's no new Tenacity (or cunning) exotics, with ferocity still holding one more exotic clan over the other two. Many people have discussed letting hunters chose which tree their pet is spec'd into, but I like many other people feel like that sort of reduces the value of having multiple pets, and is completely contradictory to my hope of obtaining more stable slots, but for a Beast Master it shouldn't be difficult to teach a boar to be more aggressive, or a gorilla to be calculating. If we can tame loa spirits what's stopping us. So here's my proposed new Beast Mastery.
- Improved Beast Mastery - You master the art of Beast training, teaching you the ability to tame Exotic pets and increasing your total amount of Pet Skill Points by 4. In addition your skills allow you to train each pet you own in a secondary specialization from one talent tree it does not already know. Changing specializations reduces pet happiness by 50 and shares a cooldown with Call Stabled Pet. Cannot be preformed in combat.
This isn't meant to be a DPS increase, it's just supposed to be cool and would make a lot of people happy. The crutches on the ability are that 1.) It's a BM talent, final tier at that, and 2.) It only allow a pet to have one additional tree, while keeping the same one. You like bears and want to raid with one, then off spec ferocity. You want more PVP viability for your cat, off-spec cunning. With this Arcturis can be the tank he was meant to be, and Ravagers can reclaim their place in raids that they lost when WotLK made them Cunning Pets. This is not going to make some pets the optimal raiding pets, in fact some pets, like Chimeras and Wind Serpents might take some tweeking to keep them in line with non-magic dealing pets (Chimeras could be at spirit beast dps levels), Some abilities are more suited for one roll than the other. Tallstriders and Hyenas would make great cunning pets, while self healing Moths could be great tanks. All the while still maintaining this also add versatility, but without having to switch pets and losing any buffs already applied to the pet from party members. This would make the BM talent more appealing just from casual versatility standpoint. You doing Faction Champs and your pet keeps getting stunned? Switch over to the cunning spec with Bullheaded and get back in the fight. You just finished a raid and ready to do some dailies? Wait you were raiding with your bear, switch back over to Tenacity and keep that massive fortitude buff going while you plow through some cultists. This way it gives more versatility and choice for their pets without cheapening the Pet Talent system.
The final talent in the Beast Mastery tree for hunters, gives the ability to tame exotic pets like Devilsaurs and the elusive Spirit Beasts, plus gives 4 bonus pet talents bringing the total up to 20. Even if you don't run with an exotic, though truthfully Devilsaur DPS is scary even compared to Spirit Beasts, the 4 points means you can spec Cobra Reflexes Rank 2, Dash, Culling the Herd Rank 3, Spiked Collar Rank 3, Blood Thirsty Rank 2, Soider's Bite Rank 3, Rabid, Call of the Wild, Shark Attack Rank 2, and Wild Hunt Rank 2 that's every straight DPS talent in the ferocity tree, still BM lacks the power that other trees bring and Beast Mastery falls behind Chimera Shot and Explosive Shot for final talents, there was even a time where the optimal BM spec completely ignored the talent in favor of Readiness from MM, of course back then Readiness worked on Bestial Wrath. Now a days you won't see a self respecting Beast Master without it and at least one Exotic, either in the stables or with them right there. Still people aren't quite happy with BM, or exotics, particularly spirit beasts. Ever since the first Skoll people have felt slightly ticked. Spirit beast had two abilities Spirit Strike and Prowl Then Skoll showed up in the data files. People hoped for Furious Howl and spirit strike. A new precedent pets in the same family with different abilities, or maybe even a new family. For as rare as spirit beasts are it wouldn't have been so strange. Sadly he was just a regular Spirit Beast, a ghost cat with a wolf skin, the same arguments occurred with Arcturis the new Bear spirit beast (a bear without swipe and a ferocity its a ferocity pet). For some folks that's awesome, they can raid with a bear with out sacrificing the already lower BM DPS. For other's no new Tenacity (or cunning) exotics, with ferocity still holding one more exotic clan over the other two. Many people have discussed letting hunters chose which tree their pet is spec'd into, but I like many other people feel like that sort of reduces the value of having multiple pets, and is completely contradictory to my hope of obtaining more stable slots, but for a Beast Master it shouldn't be difficult to teach a boar to be more aggressive, or a gorilla to be calculating. If we can tame loa spirits what's stopping us. So here's my proposed new Beast Mastery.
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