I'm glad to hear it helped. I've always believed in playing the spec you're most comfortable with, maybe because I've always been BM One thing to remember is that the dummy never goes to 20% health, so you don't get the double kill shots, which would add maybe 6% or better to your number. All the ferocity pets are supposed to do the same damage now, I believe the only difference is the buffs.

Are you familiar with the dps analyzer at Zeherah's Hunter DPS Analyzer I get a lot of whispers from other hunters, and I always direct them there. You can easily download your character from the armory, adjust the settings slightly for the fact that your using a target that's always at 100% health, your latency, and the lenght of the fight and get a theoretical dps number. It's a good target to shoot for. It will also allow you to play around with your talents, pet talents, gems, reforging, etc. to see how that may impact your dps.

I also grabbed a program called wow log parser. You can use it to compare the number of each type of shot you fired compared to what the dps analyzer says you should have, as well as lots of other helpful info. I also macroed Focus Fire into all of my shots, so it has nearly 100% uptime (approx. every 16 secs).

The biggest thing that will help your dps whatever spec you are in is your ranged weapon. Right now that may be the 264 PvP stuff. You may get some flak from people who don't know what they're talking about for using a PvP weapon (much like with the Rowan's tank gun at one time), but right now slower weapons do much more dps (and the extra crit and agility on it doesn't hurt). Seriously, it really is better than my 264 Zod's.

I haven't checked what my kill shot is hitting for, but pre patch it hit for maybe 10k and crit for 20k+. With the glyph you get 2 in a row for a cost of 0 focus. You're right about fervor the first time through, you should be able to hit kc, srp, and 4 arcane, then kc and 3 arcane and a steady for a cost of 140 focus. I have 110 focus and regen maybe 72 in 12 secs, plus 9 for the steady, which leaves 51 going into the 3rd KC. Hitting fervor just before or after the 3rd KC (40 focus) leaves enough to be able to refresh serpent.

That reminds me, I forgot to mention that you'll want to build up some focus just before BW comes up again, so that you can take advantage of it, probably 85 or better.

On a different note, has anyone noticed ISS missing? On the dummy none of my other shots ever miss, but ISS seems to consistently show a miss rate of 6-12%. Is hit rating calculated differently for that shot?

Arcane spam during BW provides quite a lot of Cobra Strikes procs, thus focus via Invigoration. I can't recall being low enough on focus during BW to go for SS.

I haven't hit the dummy in a while, you're probably right. I'm averaging 1.3 focus per second from invigoration. But I think BW lasts 10 secs, and it's 12 to the 3rd KC, which leaves a 2 sec window to get in a steady.

Regardless of whether they do stack, they shouldn't. Are the others in the group seeing both buffs as well? It could be a simple case of the UI showing you the aura you provide regardless of whether it is effective or not. I will see about checking it in both live and beta a bit later (if nobody beats me to it).

I am under impression that it is due to BoM providing a "better" version of the buff (i.e. AP+MP5) instead of just AP from TSA.

The unusual behavior that both can show at the same time, even though BoM is a "better" version (the MP5 component), may be attributed to the fact that TSA is an always-active aura, while BoM is a castable buff. This misleading graphical representation seems to be the case with most of other buffs that are provided by an aura and a castable buff at the same time, even though they are supposed to overwrite each other. Graphic representation-wise, two non-stacking castable buffs will overwrite each other (MotW and Kings for example) and two auras will also overwrite one another (TSA and AM for example), but not an aura and a castable buff. On the other hand, this doesn't seem to hold true for some of the other buffs, especially in the case of an aura and a castable buff done by our pets.

Here is my understanding:
1) They do not stack
2) Since TSA is now a permanent aura, it is up before BoM has been cast on you.
3) When BoM is cast on you, it shows up on your buff list since it provides more benefits than just the 10% AP. Your TSA still exists for you since its your aura.
4) Whether the buff list should still show your TSA or not may or may not be a bug, but either way it does not have any impacts to game play.

We've noticed that Might will stay up (even with TSA) only until mana tots are put down. Then bye bye might buff, with both of its elements otherwise covered.

At least, that's what we think is happening... input welcome.

Blizz buffed Cunning's Wolverine Bite talent in one of the past beta builds... Does anyone have approx. damage numbers for this ability?

The damage calculations for it on femaledwarf.com should be fairly close to accurate for live (I just checked them against some of my logs last night). I'll doublecheck to see if the numbers have changed on beta since I last tested them.

Thankfully, quoted from DPS Meta Gem Change...Change it Back - Forums - World of Warcraft :
"The current design has been reconsidered, so we're planning to revert gems that now require more blue than red gems back to their original requirements. Such a change can't be accomplished via a hotfix though, so we'll have to wait to revert these in a future patch."

Never understood what the strong reasoning for the DPS meta requirement change before, honestly.