What I kind of meant about the chimaera shot baseline was more on the lines of if it's baseline and we don't use it atleast we'll "maybe" get a cool new talent. What I'm really trying to say it just remove Chimaera Shot, change it, or give us something new.
Blink strikes being baseline is just weird. I don't want my pet to be some magical ninja all the time.
Just improve pet ai and speed.
I love the idea of Dire Frenzy enabling our pet to pounce on enemies. Or how about just letting our pets pounce in general? Instead of blink strikes baseline just have a pounce ability or a leap ability. Pet movement is the number one cause of us BM hunters losing DPS.
Stampede should probably stay as it has it's place in certain situations. Killer Cobra isn't bad because I enjoy how it changes our playstyle even it it's a small change. Aspect of the Beast should just be thrown in the trash.
Stomp is too OP. Give us a choice in that tree. I also don't like summoning magical beasts from thin air.
Cobra Shot is meh. I hate spending focus on it sometimes.
I just want the spec to have a rewarding feel. I want reasons to press buttons. I'm not saying I want the RNG fest of MM. The reason I don't play MM is the playstyle is just not for me... I don't worship RNJesus.
- - - Updated - - -
Also the way I feel about BM is because almost all of our dps is from our pets we don't scale well AT ALL! We could be tops at the beginning of a certain encounter or at the beginning of progressing through a raid but by the end we are middle of the pack/bottom. Another reason this happens to us is because our down time and because our DPS is mainly through our Bestial Wrath windows... So we'll be high and then go low and then from low we'll go medium-high again during our next bestial wrath. By the end we're just low.