Talk:Predator's Pounce

Possibly one of the most useful pet attacks in the game? --Armond Warblade (talk) 23:35, 13 April 2007 (CDT)
 * Meh, if you're going full damage-pet oriented with Dire and all, this doesn't have much room on the bar, since you should be spamming skills like Brutal Strike, Bestial Mauling, Poisonous Bite, Pounce, Disrupting Lunge, Enraged Lunge...This is very nice for Hearty pets though, keeps them alive very long in tandem with Comfort Animal and any other buffs you care to bring like Call of Protection. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 23:38, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

I disagree. It does more damage than the other skills and it can help your pet stay alive a little (which should be somewhat useful for most beast masters). While I agree the healing isn't great, the fact that it costs 5 energy AND has a 5 seconds recharge time makes this a very spammable skill. Very nice with Crossfire.


 * "does more damage than the other skills" Um, check your math? Brutal Strike and Melandru's Assault deal out crazy damage when conditions are met and high damage regardless. Poisonous Bite lands unconditional, fairly long lasting degen for cheap cost as well. Keeping your pet alive is easily done with any number of pet buff skills, and it's not a huge deal if it dies anyways - rez with Comfort Animal in a flash, or use Heal as One if you're running it for a 100% health rez...no real loss. Energy isn't a huge problem on a pure Beastmaster (means: staff), and Brutal Strike is just as spammable. Combining Bow Attacks and Beastmastery is teh sucks in most cases, since it'll cost you either skill disables (Tiger's Fury, Heket's Rampage) or IAS, though you need a three-spec build for the former (Lightning Reflexes in Expertise). Crossfire...if your target is going to be Blocking, use Determined Shot to recharge all skills. Saves you from wasting unnecessary points in Bow Mastery. Only reason you'd really ever use a Bow on a BM is for interrupts, but your pet can do that for you. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 23:52, 4 May 2007 (CDT)


 * For 5 energy? You must be kidding me. Melandru's don't always meet, and even when it does.. predator's probably better simply due to the cost and low recharge. If you are using enraged, the face that you can't spam Melandru's and Brutal as much DESPITE it's fast recharge means you wont' meet the req. for enraged as much. Pred's damage is amazing, for a 5 energy. Poisonous is bullshit. Since when is degen a truly viable source of damage? -218.103.246.60 00:09, 5 May 2007 (CDT)


 * Since always, if you can show me any other Beast Mastery skill to cause degen then I'm willing to listen. Zomg, Viper's Nest! Ftl. Degen gives you 2 damage a second per pip. Poison is 4 pips, or 8 damage per second. Poisonous Bite will give you perhaps up to 20 seconds of Poison. 20 X 8 = 160 damage. For just 10 energy. You call that crap damage? It makes Pred's look like trash in comparison. You'd need to use it three times or more to achieve the same damage. You can argue that "degen is easily countered". But that's bullshit as well, tell me how it's not easy to counter the highly predictable spammage of Predator's Pounce? But wait - you don't compare degen to straight damage, you use them together! Duh! [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 00:24, 5 May 2007 (CDT)