Ferocity or Cunning?Follow

I've recently switched to a wolf for leveling with (one of the demon puppies from Zul'drak), and I'm loving it. He has tons of skills to stay alive, does a fair amount of damage, and holds threat just fine with Aspect of the Beast. I'll probably stick with him up to 80, then level up my wind serpent...at which point I get to decide which family I want to raid with, and that's going to be tough.

Ferocity does great damage and has a lot of skills to stay alive and happy--it doesn't matter that my wolf only eats meat, because I never have to feed him. Cunning seems to do a fair amount of damage, too, and the more points I can spend in the tree the better it gets, even if most of the damage skills are fairly situational. The big thing I'm looking at is Roar of Recovery, though. It's a long cooldown, sure, but in the past it's meant the difference between switching to viper on boss fights, or going all out for a bit longer. It seems almost too good to give up by switching to a Ferocity pet, especially since I like to save my potion for a healing potion just in case. On the other hand, lightning breath really doesn't do a lot of damage anymore, and I've been getting frustrated with my wind serpent's lower DPS even if the extra mana keeps me going longer.

I'm leaning towards my wolf for soloing (especially if his howl doesn't stack with trueshot aura, as we usually have at least one marks hunter in the raid), and my wind serpent for raiding just for the mana return...I'm not sure though, I'll have to pick up some cheap arrows and experiment a bit. (Of course, if I hit 80 before they fix the hydra, I might just bring a tenacity pet along for pure awesome. Crossing my fingers on that one!)

Which pet families are you guys planning on using for raiding?

A few things, and I'm not in the mood to tell them in a nice way, so you're warned. ;)

Cunning pet dps is rubbish compared to ferocity dps.
Ferocity pets have dps, tenacity pets have defense and cunning pets have gimmicks, gimmicks are useless.

For raiding you should never ever even think about using a cunning pet.
Their dps is so bad compared to ferocity pets that you are better off running OoM with a ferocity pet than not running OoM with a cunning pet.

For dps, get a Scorpid, cat or raptor. At this point those are the only viable options.
(if you use a cat, get either 1 or 3 points in Longevity. because of the DoT thing 2 points is worse than 1 which is worse than 3 points.)

Aside from all that, you dont need the mana return.
In a raid you should be able to count on any combination of mana totems, Judgments of Wisdom, Spriests and I think Boomkin have a mana return too.
Either way, you wont be running OoM any time soon.

Simple conclusion at this point: don't use a cunning pet for anything.

I have not yet reached 80, but for PvP I would still assume that the scorpid is the pet of choice. The sting protection they provide is necessary for PvP, and even though their poison was nerfed for damage, they still crank out DPS. I can not see a Gorilla's AoE stomp being better than a scorpid's poison.

I wonder if this is due to the change of replenishment? I mean, another high armor pet with the ability to immobilize for 4 seconds is nice- but am I missing something that makes it the ultimate PvP pet?

I still don't get why he would choose a pet with a channeled spell, when one of his primary play aspects during BC was to have his pet always on the healer.

Except, if we are still talking about Megatf, he's using a chimera shot build. Still, its a ton of damage.

I know it is a good ability, but I guess I was thinking along the lines that Yuppley was. Pet -> healer for me normally in arenas so I didn't see the benefit of using an imobility spell. I see the use in a burst situation like Aeth pointed out, but I guess I'm still too green in PvP to see the overall picture.

This, I keep mixing em up in my head >.>