PTR: Patch 3.2.2. Hunter Bestial Wrath Change

It may seem that Beast Master hunters are getting more love from the nerf bat with a significant change to their bestial wrath ability.

Ghostcrawler however does bring to light the complete revision to the talent.

He states:

I love data-mined patch note day.

It should be no surprise to anyone who has been on these boards for long that we're trying to chill out abilities that convey offensive and defensive bonuses with the same button press. At the same time, BM damage was a little low and too dependent on the pet. With this change, hopefully, Bestial Wrath becomes more of a defensive ability while taking Beast Within will boost hunter (and just the hunter) damage at all times.

I call it more of a defensive cooldown because it now breaks all CC like a PvP trinket.

He continues:

Since the changes seem to be causing confusion, here is the new tooltip.

“Send your pet into a rage causing 50% additional damage for 10 sec (down from 18). While enraged, the beast does not feel pity or remorse or fear and it cannot be stopped unless killed.”

The tooltip doesn’t say this, but it now breaks all forms of CC that a PvP trinket would break (including Cyclone, Sap, etc.).

“Increases all damage you deal by 10% and while your pet is under the effects of Bestial Wrath, you also go into a rage causing 10% additional damage and reducing mana costs of all spells by 20% for 10 sec (down from 18). While enraged, you do not feel pity or remorse or fear and you cannot be stopped unless killed.”

So the changes are:

Duration lowered.
Passive hunter damage buff added.
Now breaks all forms of CC (whatever a PvP trinket breaks, including Sap and Cyclone).

I've never been Beast Master. I am considering it as a spec for my future tanking spec however I seem to recall Bestial Wrath made you immune to any form of crowd control. You could not be stopped, slowed, and were able to do it for 18 seconds. 18 seconds to me seems like a really long time in an Arena environment. I can understand why this has been changed to 10 seconds and how many are not happy with the change.

I recall that Bestial Wrath would not break you out of a Polymorph. It would break you out of a Sap or a Stun. With Ghostcrawler comparing it to a trinket it makes me believe that the ability will break a hunter out of Polymorph.

Is it me or does anyone else find it amusing that Ghostcrawler seems irritated at Boubouille for bringing this to light?