Cat Vs Spirit Beast

Daragh was kind enough to send us this a few weeks ago. It's a bit outdated but we LOVE to publish our readers mail. Hey, better late than never heh?

So here's something that is going to put a downer on all us spirit beast hunters. I always feel proud strolling the streets of Dalaran or Stormwind with my spirit beast and have people stop and stare at it but alas this remains pure vanity...

I noticed something the other night that scared me a little. I was in Icecrown doing the argent crusade daily with the spirit beast and as always I kept a close eye on my recount DPS; now I always use the same shot rotation. I decided to go back and come out again with my level 79 cat and do the same thing. So here I am with a lvl 79 cat and after resetting recount, I notice I am doing more DPS with the cat than with the 80 spirit beast...

Can this be true I ask myself ? so I decide to level up the cat to 80 and once that was done, I headed back to Darnassus and the heroic training dummy. I set the cat and spirit beast up with the exact same talents and I took to the dummy using only hunter's mark and aspect of the dragonhawk with auto shot and no other shots...

Now irrespective of my gear, I took down some figures. During a period of 3mins each, with the cat I recorded a DPS of 840 (simple autoshot) and then with the spirit beast I recorded a DPS of 732. Now this is due to the fact that spirit strike does not benefit from our hit rating seeing as how it's a spell based attack and hot physical.

So in short I decided to stable Loque until patch 3.1 is released and the bugs on spell hit are fixed. Normally the patch promises the spirit beast being on equal par to a devilsaur so lets hope they stick to their word.

However prior to patch 3.1, no sincere BM hunter can afford to take a spirit beast on a raid or an instance, knowing full well that they can get more DPS from a simple cat and probably insane DPS from a Devilsaur...

We agree. But may not just been a matter of vanity. For us is the thrill of getting what we think it's the most amazing, beautifull, mystic pet in the game.

Spirit beast FTW!