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On the PRIVATE server I've been playing, it is possible to learn a higher rank of a skill without having learned the previous one. I mention private because I am not sure how this will apply to retail.
I have learned Bite 1, Bite 2, Bite 4. I have learned Lightning Breath ranks 2 and 3 but NOT 1 ...

Quick question.

I noticed that there was some information posted saying that pets did the same damage regardless of attack speed. I wonder if that is true though.

Surely with faster attack speed there would be more chances to get a critical strike to increase the uptime of Frenzy (beastmaster ...