I suggest doing a little more researching of not only this thread, but the WotLK A&T thread. This information is readily available with justification, testing and reasoning behind the commonly used raid builds.

A long time ago during TBC raiding 4/5 Frenzy was proven to be a sufficient amount to keep 100% up time. Having 1 point in Animal Handler is also odd. I am not sure if you are factoring in the possibility due to the upcoming change giving expertise or you are not aware of the transference of hit to our pets recently added in 3.0. Either way, only having 1 point in Animal Handler is not offering the full potential to your pets DPS. Post-3.0, 2% hit > 1% hit and now with the upcoming change 10 expertise > 5 expertise. 3/3 Longevity was/is a good DPS boost, but 1/3 Long and 3/3 Cobra Strikes has shown to be the better DPS combo.

I can assure you that BBotB's proc doesn't trigger additional viper ticks.

It doesn't seem worthwhile to use the bow as a switch weapon at all, since you're going to be getting it's 8 mana/shot regardless of if you're in viper, hawk, or something else. Two GCD's spent on swapping would be better spent to get one extra shot in during viper, and switch back to hawk one GCD earlier. It's essentially ~40mp5 as long as you're attacking with auto/steady, and your aspect won't change how effective it is.

I'm inclined to say you either use BBotB, or you don't. There's not really an inbetween, and if you've got a twins bow, you shouldn't need black bow for pve at all.

If I am understanding you correctly, you are saying the there is a GCD used for the Aspect switch and a GCD spent for the weapon swap, right? Honestly, I have not seen a GCD initiated for the weapon swap, but I wasn't looking for it either (will check tonight). The proc from the BBotB is additive to the viper tick, so it is an extra 8 mana per shot. The DPS difference between the Twins bow and the BBotB is 1.5 dps (using the tooltip DPS of both bows). Using simple numbers, if the current AotV gives back say 350 mana/shot and it is used at oom with a 8000 mana pool, it would take 23 shots to fill that mana pool. The extra tick from the BBotB would eliminate 1-2 additional shots required to fill up the same 8000 mana pool. The difference in DPS is not great enough to make a huge difference, but of course one could argue the stat gain from the Twins Bow would reduce the 1.5 DPS difference even more. The point is to get out of AotV as fast as possible, correct?

The swap seems to be instant, but I re-test it again tonight to see if an additional GCD is applied for the swap itself. also note that come next patch Aspects are being taken off the GCD. On paper the extra mana returned just made sense. And, I will admit that using this same macro beyond low level 70s is a stretch.

EDIT: Ok, I took a few minutes to research the GCD/weapon swap piece and it does, in fact, incur a GCD in combat. When I devised this weapon swap macro I did not factor in a GCD, which is essentially negating the that extra shot being saved by using the BBotB. Point taken and thank you for the insight. Just for my own sake, I still plan on doing an active test with this macro, but looking at this on paper factoring the GCD charge the results are not going to be nearly as great as I initially considered.

Sure - here are 4 - just don't laugh too much - we are not a 1337 bunch. The first two are the first raids we did after the patch and no one understood what was going on.... the second one was fun as we AoE pulled everything. On these ones I'm running 51/10/0 (Armory is borked and is still reporting my old spec). Using an owl.
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The second two are after we have things a little more straigtened out. I'm 50/11/0 and using a cat. The third one was a mess for me because I'd just reinstalled the application from an old image just before the raid and didn't noitice that it rolled back ALL my macros until after the raid, so there will be some funny stuff there from some unknown point in time (given the number of arcane shots, probably from a PvP time).
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I'm still an armature and reading into these. Any insights would be appreciated. For other hunters Kheer is MM spec, Mable is BM, but with literally her old 2.4 talent tree. Purujit is something like 46/15/0. None of the four runs is the same content.

hehe why not? I mean, nobody here should be looking to jump down your throat and flame you for your ideas and theorycraft hehe. its definitely something I still feel is worth testing.

I still hop on beta to do only one thing. compare 51/20, 55/16, and various 51BM specs against 50/21. I think 51 pt. BM needs a buff, not because it sucks altogether, but because it's up against go for the throat at 70, and readiness at 80 lol. that's a tough match imo.

Something that jumps out at me immediately using a Cunning pet w/o GFTT is Owl Focus is a a 30% chance for only 1 free focused attack, which would have a high probability of being a Claw (Bite or Smack) since there is not GFTT present to provide added focus surplus. Of course, with the OF proc a free Claw would transfer the saved focus to follow up with its special attack freely (in theory). Basically, is this 30% chance enough to off-set A.) a consistent surplus of focus for the pet to pull from after every GCD? and B.) is a 30% chance reliable enough to justify losing the extra crit chance of a ferocity pet?

Spec would be big consideration in this too. Cobra Strikes is activated solely off pet crits and Owl Focus does not grant a crit, but just a free attack. This is apparent regardless of having GFTT or not.

Another thing that concerns me is the DPS difference in having the 2/2 Animal Handler for 10 expertise reducing the chance for a target to dodge by 2.5% and Wolverine Bite being reliant on dodges to proc. vs. skipping Animal Handler just to increase WB's proc rate.

The Cunning tree has interesting talents, but it all seems more geared towards PvP than raiding.

EDIT: Response to Mako.

Mako, you are absolutely correct. Having the time to actually account for all factors that are involved in making a swap out and the true mechanics behind AotV...I would say I butchered the math I used to justify the macro I suggested. I realized I was also not considering the mana cost to fire each shot. In my defense, the idea came to me on a whim after finding my BBotB in the bank the other day and I did not take the time to actually test or consult with others prior to implementing what I thought was a "great idea." My apologizes.

Good point on Wolverine Bite. I did watch that on the pet bar, and in the current patch it proced prettly regularly. In was on cooldown more than not, but I don plan to spec back into animal handler after the next patch.

I agree that owl's focus and feeding frenzy don't make up for the crit rating on paper. What I couldn't show you was my testing with 55/10/0 between the cat and owl. Because the cat was focus gimped (especially outside of a raid) the two were almost statistically comparable.

I'd offer to provide better WWS reports (and comparable ones) after 3.0.3, but it looks like there will be very little time before WotLK and I doubt there will be many raiding ops.

I can't remember, but the spreadsheet might already have nerfed rake (can someone confirm this?)
Other than that, I don't see how wolves can do higher dps, when their pet family skill doesn't stack with BoM or BShout, while rake is a dps skill.

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I have to disagree with ArP becoming in vogue again. It remains an unavoidable stat, so there are many items that are the best for you at the given that are just not optimally itemized with ArP.
The reason ArP is bad isn't that the armor is low on bosses, or even that it is only applied aftyer Sunders and stuff, but the simple fact that all three specs put out so much damage that isn't affected by it. BM = 40-50% pet, MM = Chimera + sting + pet, Surv = Explosive + sting + pet. So ArP really doesn't scale very well with our damage because of the limited impact it has. Bosses would need way more than 10% more armor for it to be effective enough.

It is a stat we will have to live with though, but gearing directly for it seems to be a path down Trouble Lane at this time. Much like Haste for BM Hunters.

Regarding Wolverine Bite and Animal Handler granting Expertise. I have to agree at this time that they don't mix very well unless you have extra pet talents to throw around. If we assume the target will dodge 2.5% of the attacks with Animal Handler, then a fully hasted pet attacks around 11.63 times in the span of the cooldown of Wolverine Bite and does 6.67 specials (I still ahven't seen any conclusive evidence for the 1.25 sec GCD for pets). That's not that many attacks and given the dodge our pet has a chance to WB within the cooldown of less than 50%. Wolverine Bite alone should be enough to near eliminate dodge of a target (dodgestreaks are of course possible), unless it is especially high in dodge. And depending on the power of WB you might even want enough dodges for it to proc (is it better than the melee swing + normal special?).

Regarding Owls Focus... Well it is essentially a 30% reduction of focuscosts. Though we all know it doesn't work like that. It can proc when you don't need it and forget to proc when you need it a lot. And the really problematic stuff is that it mainly procs after your pet has spent focus (or had another Owl's Focus proc), so it needs focus to get it to work.
But if we calculate it as a 30% reduction is costs and the pet uses the 1.5 GCD, then the FPS of the pet is only 11.67 which can be covered by Bestial Discipine alone (12.25 FPS). So a Cunning pet is at this time the best option for level 70 51/20/0 pets. But the reality is that Owl's Focus isn't anywhere near enough to keep focus starvation away, and when that happens the value of OF falls off sharply.

Make sure you changed the focus dump ability the pet uses. Wolf has bite, but cat has claw, so if you leave bite in the list of abilities used, it does no dps at all for the cat.

Last night during our Supremus fight, it occured to me how important positioning is now that buffs are raid wide. Simple concept but when we came out of the kite phase and I noticed I only had half the buffs I had earlier, it only took moving 10 yards to the left and bam full buffs again. This will be the single largest dps gain for many people - make sure you know where your shaman totems and feral druid are.