Beast Tamer discussion thread

I think of doing bear/cat, but looking at the cat skills it looks like you need to remain in cat mode for most of them to be active? For someone who would choose the bear for bossing, how exactly would the cat help if you sort of need to be in one mode or the other. Or am I misreading the skills.

Since all the buffs are passive, switching into the cat form would give you the buffs instantly. If you weaken a boss down to one or two hits away from death and then switch to cat form to deliver the killing blow (it's not exactly weak) you'd get the drop rate and exp buffs.