Originally Posted by
Aettis
As others have pointed out, MM only had Silencing Shot and Readiness(as well as the traps and Scatter Shot). BM has all of those, plus a 3 second stun. Still better CC than MM. Not to mention, Intimidation is essentially 2 more CCs than MM has when you throw on Readiness.
You also don't have to use a Spirit Beast. If you run with a healer, that extra heal won't be as helpful. Run a crane and get a 4 second sleep or a monkey for the 4 second blind. Baselinee, BM is better.
Baseline MM CC: Scatter, Freezing Trap(both affected by Readiness)
Baseline BM CC: Scatter, Freezing Trap, Intimidation(all 3 affected by Readiness)
I also don't get why you think BS is not great. An instant long range port that also can get over certain terrains(ledges for instance) on a 20 second CD, does great damage, etc etc. This is going to be HUGE to BM PvP. Healer about to run LoS? Too far too pewpew? Blink pet and proceed to pwn. Profit!