Pet skills in 1.7

[Lissa]

You can only have four, yes four activatable abilities now. 

So for a cat who can learn
Prowl (got rank two off a L43 Elder Shadowmaw in STV)
Dash
Cower
Bite
Claw
Growl

Your pet can only know 4 of them!  If you already have 5 of them (like most higher levels do with dash or dive) and you retrain your pet you then get stuck with only being able to teach them 4 of them!

Prowl is not affected by dash or bestial swiftness (I tested by putting a point into BS after the cat already knew prowl).  Rank 2 lowers the movement speed to 55% (and you will just run away from the pet if you leave prowl on while you are traveling) and adds 35% damage to the first attack to for a cost of 40 focus.

So yeah being able to do the auto skills from the skill boot IS COMPLETELY POINTLESS since you can only have 4 skills that take an activation!

I'm pissed, with the new bestial discipline talent my cat got focus fast enough to have growl, bite, and claw on all the time pretty much.  So if I learn those 3 I can only have prowl or dash or cower, not all 3 of them, not even just 2 of them.

This makes me very mad!
On the happy side for my beast master intimidation now rocks and bestial wrath means I have a L50 pet that gets over 110 DPS with that active and since it's 15 seconds out of every 2 minutes I pretty much sustain 70-80 DPS now with my L50 cat pet.  Of course being able to use my stealth opener would be nice but I can't have that and dash with claw and bite that are now usable with the new focus regen talent....
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There also seems to be something horribly wrong with growl now. Lissanna pulled agro from Ehecatl by shooting a single serpent sting and no other skills outside of mark. Also was having a great deal of difficulty having the pet hold agro against Sons of Arkkokan (needed to FD twice to keep the Son on Ehecatl). I know Bun was also noticing these same problems with Mostal.