My two cents, but I just respec’d from survival to BM and am still inexperienced with this build – and Bestial Discipline really changes things. (e.g., I used to keep ferocious howl turned off when soloing with my wolf since growl/bite/dash used up everything, but now he can let go the full 6 howls a minute and still have focus for all the growls and bites and still have focus to spare.)

and HEY striders make GREAT tanks :^) Health is a frogs hair higher than a gorilla and it can dash and is most entertaining when it goes postal on a gnome. But he has had a serious diminishing return after the respec to BM – whereas my WindSerpent now does sick damage.

(I loved being able to CC 4-5 things at once as a survival hunter, but damn if your instance group didn’t find a way to break it after a few seconds – If you think a mage can get touchy about his sheep being broken, try breaking a SV hunters quintuple CC move – FRUSTRATION – so BM for me for a while!)

Anyways, so based on this do you end up repecing your cat for each instance/raid like this? I’ve repec’d mine a few times but still have yet to see it go over 1g, so i’m wondering how high the cost goes, where it caps.

I also wanted to ask about your other pets. I think I recall you saying you used a warpstalker or something else to tank and I was wondering what situations you used such a pet for? I’ve pretty much stuck to my one cat and hope to tame certain special carrion bird when i hit lvl65 (thanks to another post of yours that convinced me about their worth), but I haven’t really needed to be anything other then DPS and my Nyku holds aggro nicely when needed and can even OT pretty well for my lvl range. Maybe you can post an example or two about your use of defensive/tank pets? I’d really like to read it. Thanks

I have have a guilty secret, I am a level 63 BM hunter who loves bear pets. I used to be a cat person, until I trained a bear for a higher level bite or claw at 48 and found all his stats (bar dps) to be better than my cats. Playing with him I found him much better to solo with with his high health and armor. I just wish he could have charge like a feral druid or warrior. I have recently trained up a wolf for dash, but want to continue to level my bear alongside him, in case Blizz ever show bears any love. I know BRK thinks bears are in the crapola bin (is this just cause they are slow or your prejudice against bite?) What would they need to do to a bear to make you love them? And are there any other bear lovers out there? Btw I replaced the level 48 bear with a white polar bear from winterspring.