I can't comment specifically about that fight, but there are definitely fights where a scorpid will likely hurt your dps on adds (i.e. Phase 1 Magtheridon would be a poor place to pump up your poison stacks with TBW, etc). At the risk of overgeneralizing, I would say go with a scorpid for fights where you can keep your pet on the main target for long periods of time, even if you yourself have to change targets (for adds or any other purpose).

Another scorpid question: do multiple scorpids share the same stack? I don't see why they wouldn't, but if they do it would definitely aid in keeping a full stack on the target dealing a retarded amount of damage over time. So many questions, so little time to test.

IIRC the main reason Blizzard doesn't allow more stable slots is because apparently hunter pets take up a significant amount of resources in terms of space. This is why they're so hellbent in finding a way to work around that limitation by giving hunters a chance to tame "temporary" pets or somesuch method to getting new abilities. At least this way we can actually use all three slots, instead of keeping one "free" just to get the new stuff.



PS - It's nice to see you all jumping on the Scorpid bandwagon. Too bad they're probably going to nerf the spelldamage stacking after everyone starts using one. =(

So...
I ditched my windserpent since it was bugged anyway, and the highest level of the pets I had if I wanted to get one again and since my last post I have leveled a scorpid to 70 and level 5 loyalty so I had some training points.

Anyway I went to blasted lands and with my gimp RAP of 1738 ( hawk, major agi and 20 agi food included ) and 25.4% crit I was able to keep it on for 6 minutes with 522 ticking.
I didnt use claw since I didnt wanna risk loosing the stacks but with this the scorpid did 480 DPS for the 6 minute duration.

It had cobra reflexes and no buffs on other than spirit bond.

The only real issue I can see is that with raid bosses it will most likely miss so much that its not possible to keep it stacked consistantly, but I guess in certain fights it will do really well even with "only" 300+ / tick.

Edit: I still havent figured WWS out, so sorry for not posting a parse.

480 dps seems a lot, which addon did you use to check pet dps?

Yeah I know it's low lvl mob but windserpents on that mob do 380 dps max with my gear at least, 480 seems extremely high. But I'll try it myself tonight.

Edit: I tamed a lvl 69, did 350 dps for 2 minutes, poison ticks for 324. Weird thing is poison doesn't seem to receive the 50% more damage from wrath. For me it ticks for 314 with or without wrath. Is my scorpid bugged?

I think Ladwenae pointed it out in his post. It seems like the poison's damage is based on what it first ticks for. After that I imagine the only way of changing how much damage it's doing would be to let it wear off and then reapply it.

It works for me. I had really awsome results tonight in raid (especially on solar). Poison ticks for 604.

Does animal handler effect the chance of resisting scorpid poison? I was under the impression the poison gets resisted, not missed/dodged/parried.

Scorpid Poison is applied as a melee attack - it's dodge/parry/miss not resist. It may be possible to resist the DAMAGE from the poison (I'm not sure though), but the application itself uses melee rules.

My pet with 2/2 Animal Handler had a 13.7% miss rate on Gruul. Just to give you an idea.

Sounds about right if it's miss + parry + dodge, since just browsing my WWS logs shows about 16-17% miss + parry + dodge (0/2 Animal Handler for me).