I will once the spreadsheet is updated with the latest changes from the PTR.

Viper drains 16% of your target's mana pool, but it's capped at 32% of your mana pool, so you won't get massive drains on bosses. Essentially, the most mana you'll ever get back from Chimera will be 19.2% of your maximum mana.

Also, since I haven't seen it mentioned specifically, the 30 second cooldown on LNL does apply to and is shared by both trap and sting procs. I went to the IF training dummies on test and put serpent on all 7 dummies (Gives me a 42% chance per 3 seconds to proc) and never got any procs within 30 seconds of each other. Likewise, if I used a trap to trigger the proc, I wouldn't get any sting-based procs before the trap had cooled down.

Yeah, that is correct. The spreadsheet doesn't account for trap dancing, so I used a non-trap dancing spec.

Note: I linked the wrong spec/numbers for SV initially. I was using an outdated spec based on when Serpent Sting didn't benefit from Improved Tracking. I've updated that post with the correct spec and numbers for each pet.

Hi. I just did something similar, with the same talent build for MM, and tried to figure in how Roar of Recovery would factor in.

With the same principle as the best gear per slot (although I used the sheet's scale for it), and getting hit capped, I came to different numbers but similar results, as far as rankings.

With that in mind, I noticed how my viper time on a 6 minutes fight would be around 20 seconds. That is on a fully buffed raid environment, so roar of recovery was able to keep it at 100% hawk uptime.

My total dps did favor the wind serpent over the cat, but by only 3 dps, for only 1080 total damage during that same time span. The difference is a tad greater if you do not have a minor debuffer in the raid, and use a spore bat(i changed the viper settings from OOM to always on to figure out the difference - if I did this incorrectly, some one please point it out, so I can change it around), now the sheet does not calculate the damage from the actual cloud, so I would the total difference around 50dps when using a spore bat over a cat and no minor debuffer present in the raid.

While the dps difference between them is minimal, the spore bat would bring more benefit for the whole raid as well (it would be a very good pet for 10 mans, since its rare to have a minor debuff up at all times). With that being said, I can not determine the benefit of having a ferocity pet for attack power stacking with Call of the Wild for serpent sting/chimera, but my feeling is that it would be much greater than 50dps.

In conclusion, for me at least, Cunning pets became a bit more attractive, but only under the right circumstances. Roar of recovery still feels underwhelming, and its certainly not enough to close the current gap between MM and SV (my very brief SV test yielded similar results, a difference of about 8% in favor of SV, with a cat)