Classic Feral Druid Tank Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities
On this page, you will learn how to optimize the rotation of your Feral Druid Tank Tank, in order to survive damage and build up threat while doing PvE content in WoW Classic. We also have advanced sections about cooldowns, procs, etc. in order to maximize your survivability and DPS.
If you were looking for TBC Classic content, please refer to our TBC Classic Feral Tank Druid rotation.
Introduction
Your actual rotation as a Feral Tank is quite simple and follows the priority listed below.
- Maul whenever possible;
Swipe to avoid capping Rage;
Faerie Fire when you are not going to cap on Rage;
For multiple targets, you can use Swipe more while also making sure
that you switch between different targets after each
Maul use to
spread out your threat generated.
Growl and
Challenging Roar are great taunt abilities that
force either one of multiple enemies to attack you when used. Use Growl when you
need to pick up threat on a new enemy, and use Challenging Roar when you do not
have threat on a group of enemies and need to pick them up urgently.
Rage
Feral Tanks generate Rage from auto attacks and from damage taken. Once you get
into raids, basically all of your Rage will come from damage taken. In fact, you
will have almost unlimited Rage since you will be generating much more than you
can spend through Maul. You should still use
Swipe sparingly
depending on your Rage, but you should be using Maul as much as possible.
You should almost never get an actual pure auto attack off since every single
attack should be affected by Maul. Maul is your highest threat ability.
Cooldowns for Feral Druid Tanks
Feral Tanks do not have any way to reduce their damage taken through normal
abilities. The only abilities that Feral has to help with mitigation or healing
are Frenzied Regeneration and
Barkskin. Barkskin can be used
relatively often since it only has a 1-minute cooldown, and reduces your damage
taken by 20% for 15 seconds. It is an awesome spell to use for periods of high damage,
or against magic damage, where your Armor will not help mitigate it. Frenzied
Regeneration is a powerful healing cooldown that converts Rage into health. This
is a great cooldown to use if you are either getting low or if you know you are
about to go into a period of high sustained damage.
Your most powerful threat generating cooldown is not a spell at all, but is
actually an item. Manual Crowd Pummeler is your best weapon for threat
generation due to its amazing on-use effect. When used, your attack speed is increased
by 50% for 30 seconds. Since
Maul hits as a buff to your auto attacks,
that means that you can use 50% more Mauls during that 30-second window. This item
only has 3 charges of its on-use effect, however, and you will need to farm multiple
copies of it for raids.
Changelog
- 18 Nov. 2024: Page updated for Classic Anniversary.
- 15 Jul. 2019: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Seksi, original vanilla player and multi-class player, currently playing on Gehennas Horde. You can find him on the Classic Warrior, Mage and Shaman Discords, as well as the Icy Veins Discord.
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