Back to the idea of measuring focus starvation: since 3.0.8 my hunter has been using her spirit beast instead of Broken Tooth. Spirit Strike has a cooldown of 10 seconds. Claw is instant but is on the global cooldown of 1.5 seconds. The focus cost for Claw is more (25) than for Spirit Strike (20), so assuming limited focus, Spirit Strike should proc before Claw if both cooldowns were up.
Given enough focus, the spirit beast should be able to cast Claw six times between casts of Spirit Strike. Looking at some measured Recount data, I see 317 Claws (with 40.9% crit) and 91 Spirit Strikes. From this I infer the pet is lacking enough focus to cast Claw as often as it is up, otherwise I would have expected 91x6 or 546 casts of Claw.
Is there any flaw in my logic? I am tempted to put the last talent point into 2/2 Go for the Throat to see if we get closer to the 6/1 ratio. Unfortunately with more Claw attacks I would expect to see a lower ratio of Claw crits, since a lot of that 40.9% Claw crit is coming from procs of Cobra Strikes.
However maybe an even better place to put that last talent point would be in 3/5 Mortal Shots. Then if I could find some way to boost my crit, not only would the spirit kitty have more focus, Woad would be doing more crit damage. I see no easy way to boost crit percentage though. Maybe we should all go spec Survival.
Edit: Duh. Disregard the above. Woad has 3/3 Longevity, so the SS cooldown is 7 seconds, not 10. Thus there should be only 4 Claws between Spirit Strikes. For 91 Spirit Strikes there should be 364 Claws. This compares much better to the 317 Claws actually recorded.
Putting that last point in 3/5 Mortal Shots is looking even better.
Given enough focus, the spirit beast should be able to cast Claw six times between casts of Spirit Strike. Looking at some measured Recount data, I see 317 Claws (with 40.9% crit) and 91 Spirit Strikes. From this I infer the pet is lacking enough focus to cast Claw as often as it is up, otherwise I would have expected 91x6 or 546 casts of Claw.
Is there any flaw in my logic? I am tempted to put the last talent point into 2/2 Go for the Throat to see if we get closer to the 6/1 ratio. Unfortunately with more Claw attacks I would expect to see a lower ratio of Claw crits, since a lot of that 40.9% Claw crit is coming from procs of Cobra Strikes.
However maybe an even better place to put that last talent point would be in 3/5 Mortal Shots. Then if I could find some way to boost my crit, not only would the spirit kitty have more focus, Woad would be doing more crit damage. I see no easy way to boost crit percentage though. Maybe we should all go spec Survival.
Edit: Duh. Disregard the above. Woad has 3/3 Longevity, so the SS cooldown is 7 seconds, not 10. Thus there should be only 4 Claws between Spirit Strikes. For 91 Spirit Strikes there should be 364 Claws. This compares much better to the 317 Claws actually recorded.
Putting that last point in 3/5 Mortal Shots is looking even better.
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