Actually On the yogg fight if you go into the portal and come back out your pet does stay on the brain and keeps attacking. I had to go Surv after 3.08 but am looking back into BM for that fight since in phase 1 I seem to be holding back my dps in order to not kill the adds before they get to sara anyway. I'm hoping the extra pet dps saves us a portal phase since the last time we go in we seem to be on the brain for like 5 sec

Interestingly in the Paragon Yogg-Saron + 0 Video (mmo-champion has a link) there appears to be a Devilsaur (and thus a BM hunter) in the mix. I wonder if it's for this exact reason.

Haven't noticed my pet's whereabouts as I leave the brain realm, but it usually despawns (out of range?) by the time I reach the green beam to recharge sanity. I'll keep a close eye on it this week.

The location of the brain room is directly below yogg's main room. When you get spat out his mouth if you stay close to the centre of the room then your pet will indeed contine to attack the brain. However, any attempt to move away from the central area will cause you to outrange your pet causing it to despawn.

In regards to the Paragon 0 kill, as in a 0 keeper kill you get zero sanity refresh so this would be a non-issue anyways.

I suspect the Paragon reasoning is either extra brain dps or an idea that BM will be a better spec for burning through p3 due to less dps loss during Lunatic Gaze - or both.

I will go for the 2nd reason. I tried the BM spec last night on 3 keepers. I did more damage on the brain than all the others, but only just ahead of the rogue. Compared to the previous week's Yogg 4 keepers, where I was MM, I did ~70k damage less with BM. I just can't tell how much of this is due to the one extra keeper. Still, it performs reasonably well in P3 and killing Corruptors in P2, so I think that's why they used it.
However, I encountered a problem last night. If I leave the pet to dps the brain and leave, I get thrown too far away from the center of the room and the pet despawns. The other hunter in the guild suggested using Disengage to stay close, which only works if I disengage in exactly the right moment so that when I get knocked away from Yogg the second time, I will still be close enough to him. Is there something I am missing or that's the only way to do it?

Oh, and also, what I noticed on the Paragon movie, at least the hunter using Devilsaur does not run into the portals. I couldn't see what are the others doing tho.

They didn't have a ret paladin?

We did.

Then you must tell us! Why the BM hunter?

I'm more interested in the spec chosen for the Yogg fight since IT is worthless. 54/17? 54/14/3 to try and try to hug the center to keep the pet on the brain?

Obviously not since that Devilsaur was roaming about on the outside. But I would like to hear about this too. What was it that made BM attractive for the fight? Now that the pet wasn't on the brain I can't really see any good advantage.

Well, thats a really good point to use it on the hardest phase. And focus will last long enough till you turn back again.
Now it really depends how much dps is the pet pushing right?

I doubt BM would be superior. I am able to dps with instants during Gaze; if you spin your character fast enough you can use ExS/Chim/whatever and even Kill Shot (but that takes some practice).

The easy answer to this is to model your dps as BM and MM on the spread sheet without Steady Shots. If BM is already higher dps then we know for a fact it is better. If it is close then it may be better because you will still get some steady shots off as BM. If it's no where near then it is not likely BM will exceed in dps. I have done this, and am going with BM for Yog.

Also, being BM would allow your pet to continue full DPS on Yogg-Saron while you are at range using Distracting Shot and kiting the Marked Immortal Guardians into place before the Shadow Beacon heals.

Not to doubt the value of BM on phase 3 (and phase 2 if you can keep it in the brain room) but is MM really the best spec to be comparing it against for Yogg? Setting the sub 20% to 2/3 of the fight, with a typical survival spec and the kill shot glyph, I'm seeing some pretty good results in the spreadsheet.

Oh I guess they fixed the bug where your pet simply despawns when you put it on yogg in phase 2 brain phase and phase 3. And I thought BM was useless for this fight...

Next week it's gonna be my glyphed aspect of the pack with 2/2 Pathfinding in the brain phase!

Delete, double post.

I had completely forgot about Pathfinding, what an excellent suggestion!

@ Esoth
I made the change of using kill shot 2/3 of the fight and see a dps gain of Kill Shot over Hawk for the BM build (this makes sense). Do you have any other suggestions on how to better model the dps loss due to turning around for gazes? Also do you think it is possible for Glyph of the Beast to find it's way into the build? Here is what I'm going with atm: 55/16/0

I've been playing around with the PTR version of Shandara's sheet (standard 53/13/5 - like Shandara's BM template but with one less point of frenzy and an extra point of mortal shots).

Basically, by switching out the gems in Shandara's default gear for AP, switching to Spiced Mammoth treats and speccing the pet BM with the 4 extra points. I've been able to get to within about 70 DPS of the out of the box MM template. (7042 vs. 6974)

Can someone confirm I haven't just screwed up, and if the MM template in the spreadsheet is anyway correct please?

This would work a little better and wouldn't force you to change targets. It could also be inserted into any of your shot macros.

/petattack [target=Corruptor Tentacle]
/petattack [target=Constrictor Tentacle]

That actually isn't possible to do because the only elgible targets are:
[target=RaidUnit]

Commands with mobs are blocked such as:
[target=MobName]

The closest you could do would be:
/targetexact MobName
/petattack
/targetlasttarget