Forever Feral Druid Melee DPS and Tank Guide

Feral Druids are masters of shapeshifting, with talents enhancing both your Bear Form and Cat Form, making Feral Druid the only specialization in WoW Forever that gives effects buffing both Tanking and playing as a DPS! Most Feral talents enhances abilities of both forms, making it an effective all-around specialization for flexing between the two roles.

Overall Performance Leveling Dungeon Utility Mobility

Versatile, but Lacking Some Tools

The Flexibility of being able to play both Tank or DPS allows Feral Druids to handle situations other classes might struggle with by switching between the two. Druids also have among the best mobility options of all classes at Level 20. However they still lack large parts of their toolkit to flesh out the gameplay, lowering performance overall slightly.

Slow and Steady

Since Bear Form is not unlocked until level 10, and Cat Form first at level 20, Feral Druid has a fairly slow start. With lacking mobility until it reaches level 20 it will take time to move across the world. It does however have the benefit of being a Tank that can use their Mana to heal up when needed, and then regen that Mana while fighting enemies in Bear Form.

Can Fill Two Roles Decently

Being able to flex between Tank and DPS means you have more flexibility in what role you fill in dungeon groups. However both forms lack for tools and abilities that really make them shine that are unlocked at later levels.

A Few Handy Tools

Feral Druids lack some utility available to other specs, your only Crowd Control tool is Entangling Roots which can be inconsistent and does little against spellcasters and ranged enemies. They do however have access to the Mark of the Wild buff, which increases the stats of your whole group.

Among the Fastest

Feral Druid gives access to the Feral Swiftness talent, giving a permanent 30% speed buff while in Cat Form. This coupled with both the ability to stealth with Prowl and being able to break all roots and slows by simply shapeshifting makes Feral Druid one of the fastest and most mobile specializations in the WoW Forever beta.

While leveling to Level 10 you will have to utilize the base kit of Druid, using your normal spells like Wrath and Moonfire to kill enemies. This is usually not a major issue as most lower level enemies are a bit weaker relative to players. As you reach level 10 you will mainly want to level in Bear Form, using your Mana to heal yourself after killing enemies or in an emergency, and then recovering your Mana while in Bear Form.

Feral Druid has two potentially interesting profession combos to look out for in the WoW Forever Beta.

Skinning combined with Leatherworking allows you to gather Leathers and turning it into items you can wear yourself, this can be good to fill out item slots when lacking from quest rewards.

An alternative combination is Herbalism and Alchemy which lets you create useful potions and elixirs to heal in a pinch or increase your stats for long periods of time. One major drawback is that it does not offer a way to make your own gear.

This build opts into putting 5 points into Ferocity, helping with both your Rage economy while leveling allowing for more Maul casts, and reducing your energy cost in Cat Form. It puts 2 points in Feral Swiftness for movement speed in Cat Form with the added benefit of granting increased Dodge chance in all forms. It then takes 3 points in Heart of the Wild increasing your stats, a talent that becomes very potent at higher levels, but a bit less so with low level gear. It finishes up with taking Feral Charge at Level 20.

An alternative at Level 20 is to move Feral Charge and Heart of the Wild for 4 points in Furor, allowing you to enter your forms with some resources.

Your level 20 rotation will be fairly simple since you will not have unlocked most of your kit yet. In Cat Form you will be using Claw as your Combo Point builder, and spending them on Rip when you reach 5 Combo Points.

When tanking in Bear Form you build Rage by taking damage and Auto-attacking, with Enrage allowing you to generate 30 Rage over 10 seconds on a 1-minute cooldown at the cost of reducing your Armor slightly. You will spend Rage on Maul, or if you are tanking multiple targets you can spend it on Swipe.

You can use Faerie Fire to reduce the Armor of targets to increase the damage they take, and buff yourself with Mark of the Wild and Thorns to increase your own power. If you need healing you can always leave your form and cast healing spells on yourself, and use Nature's Grasp or Entangling Roots to root enemies so you can run to safety.

While leveling and doing content by yourself a higher priority is placed on Armor and Stamina, which usually are more plenty on higher level items. Strength adds more damage than Agility while Spirit allows you to regen more Mana while fighting enemies meaning you have better means to heal yourself up when needed. Intellect does very little for Feral Druid and is significantly below the other stats in value.

Additional stats that affect your gameplay are Hit Chance, which increases the chance for your attacks and spells to hit enemies, and Critical Strike Chance, which gives a chance to double the damage of attacks. These stats usually only appear on items obtained at later stages of the game and are very powerful.

The stat priority looks something like the following:

Some of the more useful consumables available will be potions and elixirs made by Alchemists. Healing potions like Lesser Healing Potion can save your life in an emergency, and elixirs like Elixir of Lion's Strength increases your stats, making you deal more damage or be more durable depending on the elixir.

Food crafted by players with Cooking will be able to give extra stats as well as an experience buff when eaten. This makes stocking up on food extra good. Buffs that give Stamina, Strength or Spirit can be very useful when leveling or doing dungeons with friends!

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This guide is written by Meyra, a Vengeance main with a love for pushing Mythic+ keys and showcasing Proof of Concept keys with 5 tanks or other non-standard group compositions. They are a distinguished member and frequent contributor to Vengeance theory in the Demon Hunter class discord, and also occasionally stream Vengeance and other tank content on Twitch.

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