Originally Posted by
Dracodraco
I think that at this point, most guilds are using pets to tank Dark Animus adds, just to make the fight less hectic (having your healers not tanking adds makes it alot easier on overaggro issues from dot-horny moonkins, and makes things more stable overall we found). Due to meta's and gear, the fight is no longer hard to meet the enrage on (we used 2x surv hunters and 2x warlock pets tanking golems, and we skipped the "pour the 1-stack golems into each other then into massive"-part as we didn't need the extra 20 seconds it gives). Overall for a guild progressing the fight, while BM may be the stronger spec for pure singletarget DMG, I'd personally recommend surv and using the utility that it turns out hunters actually have.
As for Twins, Serpent sting/BA will keep on ticking on Suen after she "dissappears" (AMOC will NOT), but BA will not trigger Lock and Load procs. So essentially, you'll only throw BA on her once (in your opener in the start of the fight, you get 3 seconds before she dissappears - ES-BA-SS). That's essentially the advantage Surv has over BM in the first phase - the dots you throw on her will do more overall due to surv mastery. Also, Surv is far more steady damage than BM, meaning that your damage done in P1 to Suen may be lower as BM, if you don't delay BW to tears are used etc - if you do, the burst you can do in that window of time is probably higher. BM would only win out due to P2+3 damage I'd reckon.
As for Qon, always been wondering how the deadzone works for the hunter pet - does it work like Jinrokh's pools (if the hunter's got it, the pet has it), or does it work like Garalons legs (if the pet is standing behind it, it's got it, if not, then it's free to dps)? Or does the pet simply move around to hit the dog where its vulnearable? I have a really aids position, absolutely no camera angle to see it, really =P.
Ra den it's quite easy to see why BM is stronger (burst on anima orbs + pure singletarget burn).
As for Lei Shen - assuming that you have no issues meeting the "soft" timers (pushing before conduits level), why is BM stronger than Surv? The balls seem quite deadly (mind, only been practicing on P2 so far), and surv is far stronger at dealing with them, and one of the "best" heavy burst AOE specs in the game if you manage to save fervor.