Originally Posted by
Alth
Yes, the addon tracks how much focus you saved by USING the arcane/multi shots, not how many procs you received.
1) You will not get 100% effect from your fervor, your pet included (assuming you aren't casting it while focus capped, which would be retarded). As I said, there will most likely be numerous times in a fight where you cannot make use of it, for example, during or shortly after a string of explosive shot procs. You will 1, have to sit on fervor until your streak ends and 2, have to cast off a couple of spells afterwards to get yourself under the 50 focus mark. Not to mention general fight mechanics making you unable to effectively use it on CD. (Kiting Thok, proceeding to the engineer on Garrosh, deterrencing mark of anguish, Immerseus intermission just to name a few (got bored). This will mean your pet, and indeed yourself will not receive 100% benefit from Fervor, as it is not always optimal to use it on CD in the current state of SV hunters.
2)You say capping focus is an issue, but it is not. If you are casting your most powerful spells (ie, explosive shots on proc) it is absolutely not an issue if you focus cap. Regardless if you are using Fervor or ToTH, in an explosive shot string, your focus is more often than not, going to cap out. The advantage that ToTH has over Fervor here is that when your sting does fall off inevitably during fairly decent LnL streaks, you can simple cast a Thrill of the Hunted multishot at the target for a dps gain. It is far better to do this than reapplying serpent sting without the multi shot, as you get the added damage of the multi shot factored in. This you cannot do with Fervor (while I might add, potentially sitting on the CD) because it is a terrible Damage to focus ratio to do this while not under the effects of ToTH.
I would also like to re-iterate my point about Fervor fallng far behind ToTH on fights with AoE as well. With fervor, you will get what 2-3 multishots out of it? With ToTH you can quite easily pull off 6-7 multishots in a row no issue at all. And before somebody cries "but RNG", if you play correctly with ToTH you can bank procs for upcoming aoe phases (bats on thok, Garrosh hc first intermission). ToTH has a 30% chance to proc off a multishot or arcane shot, so you can rest assured that it is extremely likely after firing off your three procs, you will receive another three on top. Even if the RNG gods hate you that day and decide you aren't worthy of a proc, it is at the very least greater than or equal to fervor for this short window of time. (Remember, ToTH has a 65-85% uptime in most peoples logs, so the chance of you not receiving a second proc is very low).
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Perhaps explain why you perceive blink strikes to be better then? I'm talking straight up iron juggernaut here, of course BS is superior on Galakras/Spoils/Immerseus/Possible Thok.