Originally Posted by Trifle
Having used scare beast before, I'd have to say it is by far the least reliable form of fear. I'm not sure if its the lack of spell hit or an inherent spell modifier, but while priest and warlock usually seem to last the full duration, or at least a significant period (even while the target is taking damage via dots or melee/spell attacks), scare beast seems more like intimidating shout: as soon as I do something even as insignificant as wingclipping the target for 50 damage, the fear will break instantly.
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This is probably more psychology than an actual issue with the spell. Having played a warlock for a long time, I observed that the spell does not usually last as long as people tend to say it lasts. But that one in 5 times that it does, that person immediately gets frustrated and remembers that it lasted oh so long on them, and forms the opinion that fear lasts way too long. And it works in reverse. The caster only notices it not working when it breaks really quick. So it seems underpowered to them. Such is the nature of random + human psychology. See: Onyxia deep breathes more this patch, my <x item> hasn't dropped in <y time>.
Now, having said that, I have not used scare beast on the PTR, so you may have something concrete here. And it may well be intended. I would want to see some numbers though, with a fairly large sample size.