World of Warcraft: Forever Feral Druid 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

Able to Fill Many Roles

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 30. Larger parts of the toolkit are also available, allowing Feral Druids to perform much better in both roles.

Slow but Steady Start

Since Bear Form is not unlocked until Level 10, and Cat Form at Level 20, Feral Druid has a fairly slow start. 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 after reaching Level 10, and then regen that Mana while fighting enemies in Bear Form.

Strong and flexible

Being able to choose between Tank and DPS means you have more flexibility in what role you fill in dungeon groups. At Level 30 you also have access to far better tools for both Tanking and playing as DPS making the experience a lot simpler.

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. Reaching Level 24 and 26 will grant access to Remove Curse and Abolish Poison allowing you to dispel Curse and Poison effects from yourself and your party.

Among the Fastest

Feral Druid is able to 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. Travel Form is also unlocked at Level 30 for even more movement speed options.

Starter Information

Beginner Guides

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Leveling

This build opts into putting five points into Ferocity, helping with both your Rage economy while leveling allowing for more Maul casts, and reducing your energy cost in Cat Form. After this we place three points in Feral Instinct for Swipe damage and to improve your Prowl once Cat Form is unlocked. The next two points go into Feral Swiftness for a sizable movement speed increase in Cat Form, and an added benefit of granting increased Dodge chance in all forms.

Once you reach Level 20 you want to start building points in Savage Fury and Shredding Attacks to open up the gates to Shifting Power and Primal Bite. Shifting Power allows you to trade Mana for Energy while in Cat Form, and Primal Bite adds an additional attack to your Bear Form toolkit, you want to take both unless you plan on only playing one role exclusively.

Your next three points go into Sharpened Claws and one point into Blood Frenzy, or Feral Charge if you want the additional mobility. Finally when you reach Level 30 you gain Leader of the Pack giving you and your whole party 3% increased chance to Critically Strike.

If you unlock enough Legacy Points you can unlock the Talented trait, allowing for five more talent points at Level 30. These can be used on Improved Shifting Power, halving the cooldown for even more energy, and Predatory Instincts to increase the damage of your Critical Strikes. The last point can either go into Predatory Strikes for a small amount of Attack Power, or to grab Feral Charge or Blood Frenzy for mobility or increased resource generation.

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 very worthwhile when leveling since there have been several strong Rare items added to Leatherworking which can make your leveling process much easier.

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.

Exploring secondary professions can be useful beyond this, Cooking gives access to food that both give stat buffs as well as increased experience from killing enemies. First Aid gives access to bandages and potions for healing, which can be useful for healing out of combat and in emergencies respectively.

Your choice of Race is somewhat limited as a Feral Druid, with Night Elf available for Alliance, and Tauren for the Horde, as well as Skyborne available to both factions.

As Alliance, Night Elf offers an interesting choice with Elune's Light as a burst damage option, as well as a slight stealth improvement to Prowl, and a small defensive boost through 1% Dodge from Quickness. Meanwhile Alliance Skyborne gives access to Walk on Air allowing you to slow your fall and reach otherwise hard to reach places, as well as 1% faster Auto-attacks through Wind Blessed.

For Feral Druids that prefer to play Horde Tauren stands out on lower levels with their Plainsrunning passive, which lets them build up to 30% increased speed while running. On top of that they offer both increased Health and 1% increased chance to Hit with all attacks. Tauren also gain access to War Stomp for a short stun in close proximity. While Horde Skyborne Druids do gain access to Skysight for increased movement speed, it does not perform nearly as well as Plainsrunning.

• Cat Form
  • Your Level 30 rotation will be a slight upgrade from Level 20, now that more spells are available to you. While playing as DPS in Cat Form you want to ideally build combo points with Shred and spend them on Rip when you know the target will live through most of the duration. Use Shifting Power on Cooldown, making sure you have less than 60 Energy so that none of the bonus Energy is wasted. Make sure to use any Omen of Clarity procs on Shred.
  • If you are unable to be behind your target to use Shred, you will instead have to use Claw, which deals less damage for a similar Energy cost. Rake can be applied to deal Bleed damage to the target but might not deal as much damage as Shred, making it less important to use.
• Bear Form
  • 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. Your main Rage spender is Primal Bite, and Swipe against multiple enemies. You can use Maul to burn through excess Rage if needed, but since Maul replaces your next Auto-attack the Rage cost is actually slightly higher than the Rage cost. When playing in Bear Form you want to use Omen of Clarity on Primal Bite if available, otherwise you can use it on Swipe against multiple targets, or Maul against a single target.

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.

WoW Forever has added a lot of changes to gearing, i.e. by adding new quest rewards to old Dungeon Quests, new drops from Dungeon bosses, as well as several new crafting recipes that can be purchased with Merchant's Favor. A lot of these items offer varied stat itemization and give different options depending on what you are looking for.

Leatherworking can craft several strong Leather items that are fairly powerful, which can be useful both while leveling and once you reach Level 30, beyond that you are mainly going to want to look out for items with a lot of focus on Strength, Agility, and Stamina while leveling. Dungeons and quests related to them will most likely offer a lot of good rewards that can also help you gear up as you level. If you find items with Critical Strike chance bonuses, Expertise, or Hit chance, those items are likely very strong.

The Following list contains strong items for each slot that are available at Level 30. Some of them will require you to group with others to complete quests significantly higher than Level 30, but the rewards are likewise much stronger. In some of these slots you can get similar value from Uncommon (Green) items with suffixes of either of the Tiger, Bear, Bandit, or Beast. Especially if those items require higher levels closer to Level 30.

Being a Specialization that can broadly fill two roles means that the gear you choose might vary slightly depending on the role you are aiming to fill. Broadly speaking you will want roughly the same stats, regardless of whether you are tanking or playing as a DPS, but the difference in how much emphasis you put on certain stats might change depending on your role choice.

Below you can find a list that explains the stats and ranks them roughly by value, as well as explanations of why stats are placed as they are and when you might consider any of them more than others.

1. Weapon DPS
   • WoW Forever has added Weapon scaling to both Bear Form and Cat Form, making your Weapon one of your most relevant items for your damage and threat output. Since your auto-attacks are fixed speeds and the Weapon DPS is carried over, the speed of your weapon has no relevant impact on your final DPS.
2. Hit Chance and Expertise
   • These are stats you will not find on lower level gear, but once available they are among the strongest effects for increasing your damage and making your abilities hit more consistently. As a Tank they also add a lot of consistency to your Threat generation.
3. Critical Strike Chance
   • Has a chance to double the damage of all abilities. Rare on lower level gear but a potent stat, especially at higher levels with talents like Primal Fury and Predatory Instincts.
4. Strength
   • Increases your Attack Power by 2 per point. A simple and potent stat that increases your damage done and therefore threat generation.
5. Agility
   • Gives increased chance to Critically Strike, increased Dodge chance, and 1 Attack Power per point when you are in Cat Form.
6. Stamina
   • Increases your Health by 10 per point. Good to give a larger buffer of Health when tanking or just to survive stray damage as a DPS.
7. Spirit
   • Increases your Health and Mana regeneration out of combat. Can be useful for recovering during solo content, but is overall less valuable than other stats.
8. Intellect
   • Increases your Mana by 15 per point, as well as increasing Spell Critical Strike chance. Since neither Tank nor DPS Feral Druids use Mana or spells much, this is one of our worst stats.
9. Spell Power
   • Increases your Magic damage, which has fairly little value as Feral, since the only relevant damage it buffs is Thorns.

Some of the more useful consumables available will be potions and elixirs made by Alchemists. Healing potions like Greater Healing Potion can save your life in an emergency, and if a greater heal is needed and you are playing with a healer you can use Greater Discolored Healing Potion for strong burst of healing followed by losing 75% of the amount healed.

Powerful elixirs such as Elixir of Agility and Elixir of Ogre Strength will increase your main stats while elixirs like Elixir of Lesser Fortitude and Elixir of Defense increase your passive defenses while tanking.

Blacksmiths are able to craft sharpening and weightstones, such as Coarse Sharpening Stone and Solid Weightstone. When applied to your weapon they will increase your weapon damage for 30 minutes. A new addition in WoW Forever is that this also increases the damage done in both Bear Form and Cat Form, making these really potent consumables for Feral Druids.

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 other interesting effects can be very useful when leveling or doing dungeons. While leveling food buffs also give increased experience from killing enemies, speeding up the leveling process.

Enchanters have the means to add stats and other bonuses to your items. While it is usually rare to enchant your gear during leveling the limited level range of the WoW Forever beta means that you can empower strong gear at Level 30 for more power.

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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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