Originally Posted by
Epoch
The buff you are referring too wasn't really buff, but an attempt at a band-aid fix for feral scaling. It was 4% and ferals are still having issues.
Until feral is fixed the way that other specs have been, we will continue to see this pattern - start out good at the beginning of an expansion, towards the middle we fall behind because we scale poorly. This is a design issue. We don't benefit from haste like other dps specs, so instead of fixing that, blizzard will continue to throw band aid fixes as a coverup.
It would be nice if scaling was fixed and we weren't so reliant on certain stats, gear or legendaries; but look at it from blizzard's perspective: Why allocate man hours and money to fix a spec which is one of the lowest represented specs in game? Keep in mind, they are ultimately a corporation and in it to make $, not spend $ to fix a screw up even if they caused it.