New Hunter talent trees

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My first look at Wyvern Sting and I was thinking that it was fairly useless, being only usable out of combat, and only lasting 12 seconds if nothing touches it. Doesn't seem like a worthwhile talent point investiture to me, yet everyone's drooling over it like it's a godsend? Can you explain this to me? What am I missing about WS that's so great?
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CC is the ultimate utility in this game. It will be more effective PvE, but then again so is Sap. The best example I can use is UBRS. With our low amount of druids, it's quite often that we end up in UBRS with no druids whatsoever. Sap is only Humanoids, Sheep only Humanoids and Beasts, and Shackle doesn't even apply to UBRS. So for the Dragonkin, that leaves Freezing Trap at 20 seconds - 26 seconds if you count 3 points into a talent nobody got. Given a perfect Feign Death/retrap, that's 40 to 52 seconds. Sap's 45 seconds, so that's about equivalent if you count the fact that Freezing Trap can be used on anything even though it's tougher to do right.

Now let's take the new talents. Only 2 talent points for a 26 second Freezing Trap, and Wyvern sting is now one of two CCs that does damage - the other being one limited to outside. Now a Hunter in UBRS can either control one Dragon for 64 seconds - even doing a small amount of damage to it - or can control 2 for 12 seconds then just one for 40 more seconds.

Sure, it's the toughest CC to use right in the game, but it's still the most versatile.