Spirit Walk

This ability is goddamn atrocious and needs to be fixed. My pet walks around like he has a stick up his ass when it is active, making Kill Command virtually useless as he slowly waddles his bow-legged as towards enemies severely limiting my ability to do, ANYTHING.

Is this ability really worth keeping on in PvE? I, along with many others, hate having an invisible pet. Another extremely annoying thing is that it takes them a very long time to reach the target... And if you get into combat while trying to sneak out of a cave, even if they are on passive, they slow way down and end up despawning due to distance.

I think I am going to toggle this off. I doubt I will see even a minor DPS loss.

After I turned the auto-cast off (right-click ability) and had my pet attack something it didn't go back into Spirit Walk (transparent).

This isn't a particularly useful ability to use in PvE content, unless you are trying to sneak by an enemy or hide. Using this stealth ability and the night elf racial will let you literally hide in plain sight while trying to recover from nearly dying, for instance. I definitely recommend toggling its autocast off and manually activating it.

Blink strike no longer exists (having been redesigned as a passive ability), but if you are BM you can still use this in combination with Kill Command as your opening attack.

So this one is a bummer. You go BM only to tame a spirit beast (because BM sucks otherwise as of cataclysm) you then tame a spirit mob, wih can take a looong time if you are unlucky or on a crowded server. Then when you get the good looking pet, it uses this awful crap of a ability. Sure it SEEMS good (really, does it? it basically removes the pets dash and charge spells) and then what happens? Your pet becomes very close to invisible.

Blizz, Do tell me what is the point of having a good looking pet when its invisible? You go through all of this, and you end up with not even seing your pet.

Also the spell text says "Lasts until canceled" however, the spell cant be canceled.

The "bummer" is actually a "bonus ability." The Spirit Beast also has (and has always had) both a raidwide damage buff and a heal. The stealth can be toggled off and cancelled by attacking something.

This only really works well when followed with Blink Strike. The fact that the pet is blinking (more like Shadowsteping really) to the target means the slow movement speed is negated. For best results use a macro like this...

/cast Spirit Walk(Bonus Ability)
/cast Blink Strike

...and gain a 20% damage buff to every Blink Strike.

BFA: I might add that Kill Command/Barbed Shot are good to get your pet sprinting (blinking) to the target in Survival spec. It's possible to disable stealth after a fight permanently.

I can't stand how this spell makes your pets look. I hope Blizzard will consider redoing it.

thx! couldn't figure out how to cancel stealth in my pet

PvP. The invisibility is beneficial there, so is the small burst. If you PvE, simply do not use this, no one forces you to.