Early BM/pet dps testing

[Lisaara]

So SV is the new MM, BM is the new SV, and MM is the new BM? Cool! This is great - I adore the pets of BM, but I love the slightly more chaotic gameplay for SV.

Ew. *hisses* I hate SV. I pray to the gods thats not the top dps spec and never will be. ><;

[bluddy]

my ranking. Bm,Surv,MM yesi like playing in surv.

[Fayos]

So SV is the new MM, BM is the new SV, and MM is the new BM? Cool! This is great - I adore the pets of BM, but I love the slightly more chaotic gameplay for SV.

Ew. *hisses* I hate SV. I pray to the gods thats not the top dps spec and never will be. ><;

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

Alltho, in internal Blizzard builds right now, SV is higher than BM, and MM is still waaaay down the list.

[Saturo]

So SV is the new MM, BM is the new SV, and MM is the new BM? Cool! This is great - I adore the pets of BM, but I love the slightly more chaotic gameplay for SV.

Ew. *hisses* I hate SV. I pray to the gods thats not the top dps spec and never will be. ><;

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

Alltho, in internal Blizzard builds right now, SV is higher than BM, and MM is still waaaay down the list.

my ranking. Bm,Surv,MM yesi like playing in surv.

MM > BM > SV.

MM is FAR above the other two tough. It's more like MM > Unspecced > BM > SV.

[Slickrock2]

SV is the new MM, BM is the new SV, and MM is the new BM? Cool! This is great - I adore the pets of BM, but I love the slightly more chaotic gameplay for SV

Ew. *hisses* I hate SV. I pray to the gods thats not the top dps spec and never will be. ><

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

Alltho, in internal Blizzard builds right now, SV is higher than BM, and MM is still waaaay down the list.

my ranking. Bm,Surv,MM yesi like playing in surv.

MM > BM > SV.

MM is FAR above the other two tough. It's more like MM > Unspecced > BM > SV.

So... According to Saturo, any BM should be quitting now because our damage is so low?
(and SV too?)

If we are worse than unspecced, that's the only choice. MMers rejoice, the BMers will be gone soon.

[zedxrgal]

This will create a problem for any one (like me) who's solely BM. After all 98% of my pets are exotics. I think maybe even more. So if it really ends up being this way then that will make my exotics completely useless.

[Kalliope]

Saturo was posting her preferences.

[Saturo]

SV is the new MM, BM is the new SV, and MM is the new BM? Cool! This is great - I adore the pets of BM, but I love the slightly more chaotic gameplay for SV

Ew. *hisses* I hate SV. I pray to the gods thats not the top dps spec and never will be. ><

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

Alltho, in internal Blizzard builds right now, SV is higher than BM, and MM is still waaaay down the list.

my ranking. Bm,Surv,MM yesi like playing in surv.

MM > BM > SV.

MM is FAR above the other two tough. It's more like MM > Unspecced > BM > SV.

So... According to Saturo, any BM should be quitting now because our damage is so low?
(and SV too?)

If we are worse than unspecced, that's the only choice. MMers rejoice, the BMers will be gone soon.

Saturo was posting her preferences.

What Kalli said. Also, I wouldn't want BMers gone, I merely said that I hate it's playstyle. I prefer MM, keeping track of CDs, having a somewhat stable rotation and so forth.

[Doth777]

Updated initial post with Raptor. Also, Cats should be considered the same as Spirit Beasts damage-wise, as both provide the same buff and the 'exotic' ability of Spirit Beasts does not affect damage.

I'll try to do Wind Serpent next, I expect it to be a pretty good one as well, especially for Survival hunters.

[Slickrock2]

Ok, that makes more sense...

But as I've said, I wouldn't mind a MM cannon spec either. (ducks...)

Good to hear about the pet dps balances...

[Worba]

I like all 3 but have to say I find MM the most interesting, so far - SV also has plenty of stuff to do, but it doesn't seem to gel as well as it does with MM... for me at least it's been more of something hunters can take to feel "shooty-without-being-MM"...

[Doth777]

Well, the pet vanishing bug has returned as of Monday's "tool patch". Lost several pets, including the Raptor, Cat, Shale Spider, a Fox, and 1-2 more I believe. Oddly enough, the most recently tamed pet, the Wind Serpent, survived. I'll try to lvl the WS up and test it, but that sort of depends on Blizz's server stability I guess.

They really need to fix this bug before pushing 4.0.1, it's been ongoing for over a month.

[Kalliope]

Well, the pet vanishing bug has returned as of Monday's "tool patch". Lost several pets, including the Raptor, Cat, Shale Spider, a Fox, and 1-2 more I believe. Oddly enough, the most recently tamed pet, the Wind Serpent, survived. I'll try to lvl the WS up and test it, but that sort of depends on Blizz's server stability I guess.

They really need to fix this bug before pushing 4.0.1, it's been ongoing for over a month.

Confirmed; I lost pets on the PTR as well.

[SgtMakkie]

All my pets got transferred with no problems and my corehound the beast still has his ??…
I haven't had chance to get any decent tome to get used to the rotation to say spa is better or worse. From initial feeling, it seems rushed ( use of focus ) that is.

[Vephriel]

All my pets got transferred with no problems and my corehound the beast still has his ??…

Hmm, I just went to UBRS in Beta to double-check on The Beast, and he is still labelled as a level 60 with no Boss tags.

[zedxrgal]

On the PTR my Beast still has his ?? Boss title also. Odd. Was thinking he'd have lost it by now.

[Vephriel]

The PTR hasn't implemented the big changes, it's only for the talent and resource additions, nothing new pet-wise.