Dire Beast

In the Beast Mastery Hunter talent tree, Dire Beast sits in the Beast Mastery specialization talents, row 3 of 11. It is a single-point node.

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The tree draws a line into Dire Beast from Animal Companion or Solitary Companion.

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  Animal Companion

  Your Call Pet additionally summons the pet from the bonus slot in your stable. This pet will obey your Kill Command, but cannot use pet family abilities.

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  Solitary Companion

  Your pet damage is increased by 35% and your pet is 10% larger.

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Dire Beast leads on to Wild Thrash and Bestial Wrath.

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  Wild Thrash

  Command your pet to thrash all enemies, dealing (191% of Attack Power) Physical damage to them. Damage is increased by 300% if Wild Thrash hits 2 or more enemies. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.

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  Bestial Wrath

  Sends you and your pet into a rage, instantly dealing (800% of Attack Power) Physical damage to its target, and increasing all damage you both deal by 20% for 15 sec. Removes all crowd control effects from your pet.

Same row

Also on this row: Alpha Predator, Stomp and War Orders.

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  Alpha Predator

  Kill Command now has 2 charges, and deals 15% increased damage.

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  Stomp

  When you cast Barbed Shot, your pet stomps the ground, dealing (144% of Attack Power) Physical damage to all nearby enemies.

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  War Orders

  Barbed Shot deals 10% increased damage, and applying Barbed Shot reduces the cooldown of Kill Command by 3.1 sec.