Originally Posted by Protagonist
Something like that is what I expect as well. Boring, though. Giving dire cat an "off paw" would be a much more interesting mechanic.
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An "off paw" although an interseting mechanic would mean that it would either have to be faster or the same speed as our "main paw". That would lead to some absurdly fast attacks for spell pushback in pvp as well as some very nasty reflective damage from Molten Shield and Thorns. Add the additional dual wield miss rate, I think its safe to say Blizz wil stick to the 1.0 speed single paw.
Although, now that I think about it, that could simply be addressed by changing the weapon speeds to something along the lines of dagger rogues. And that would also make +hit heavy rogue gear, far more apealing to ferals and work well with Blizz's new gear homogenization plans.
What concerns me about Dire Cat form though, if it is simply a different scaling of AP or adjustment of base weapon damage, we'd be essentially losing one of our wotlk "spell slots" to something rather inconsequential.