Feral Druid Leveling Guide from 1 to 80 — The War Within (11.1.5)

Welcome to our Leveling Guide for The War Within. This will help you in your journey to max level as a Feral Druid, covering talents and abilities you should know about.

Feral Druid is extremely mobile, giving it the advantage of questing quickly moving point-to-point. It is also equipped with a strong AoE toolkit, but a lot of it happens over time so requires care to not get overwhelmed. It is also very well suited to doing dungeons, though you may find your queue times are faster if you do so as Guardian to tank.

When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. You will often be replacing these gear pieces very quickly, so equip whatever comes to you without worrying about secondary stats.

During levels 1 to 9, you will not have activated the Feral specialization and, as such, will have to spend the first 5 levels in Caster form using Wrath and Moonfire. After acquiring Cat Form at level 5, you can make use of Shred, and at Level 7, use Ferocious Bite to use Combo Points.

To help with understanding what changes as you level up and progress through the talent tree, use the slider below to select your current level. Each time you level up, move it along and the rotation will adjust for you!

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After reaching level 71 and unlocking Hero Talents, we recommend playing with Druid of the Claw to gain access to Ravage.

Due to Feral only being unlocked as a talent specialization at Level 10, you should use the abilities provided to you in the intro quests until you are presented with the option.

Always be in Cat Form during combat as Feral's toolkit requires using the shapeshift form.

Try to always start combat from Prowl to take advantage of the bonus to Rake from Pouncing Strikes.

If you are struggling to stay alive use your Predatory Swiftness procs gained from spending Combo Points on instant Regrowth casts.

1. Enter Prowl before opening on your target whenever possible.
2. Open with Rake from stealth.
3. Cast Berserk on dangerous elites or large groups of enemies.
4. Cast Convoke the Spirits on dangerous elites or large groups of enemies.
5. Cast Ferocious Bite / Ravage with Apex Predator's Craving procs.
6. Cast Feral Frenzy on cooldown.
7. Cast Tiger's Fury on cooldown.
8. Cast Primal Wrath at 5 Combo Points with multiple targets in range to apply Rip to all of them.
9. Apply Rip to any high health targets at 5 Combo Points if it is not already present.
10. Cast Ferocious Bite / Ravage at 5 Combo Points.
11. Apply Thrash against multiple targets.
12. Maintain Rake.
13. Cast Brutal Slash to generate Combo Points.
14. Cast Swipe to generate Combo Points against multiple targets.
15. Cast Shred to generate Combo Points against one target.
16. Make sure to always be in Cat Form.

Feral also has a variety of additional helpful abilities while out in the open world:

• Feral has access to a variety of shapeshift forms, most important being Cat Form which activates the majority of Feral's damaging abilities. Others are:
  • Bear Form can be used for additional survival if you are in major danger.
  • Caster form allows you to use healing and magic spells.
  • After acquiring Killing Strikes, you will always trigger Ravage after casting Tiger's Fury the first time in combat. Make use of this for big opening burst!
  • Travel Form can be used while outdoors to move faster.
  • Aquatic Form will be activated when using Travel Form in water, swimming at much faster speeds.
  • Flight Form will be activated when using Travel Form outdoors and out of combat, instantly granting flying mount equivalent speed. This can also be used to interact with quest objects and gather without canceling.
• Moonfire can be used while in caster form to pull far away enemies, while Regrowth can be cast to recover health between encounters. Mark of the Wild should also always be kept active for additional Versatility.
• Prowl can be used to slip into stealth and get around dangerous enemies.

In this section, we will rank the PvP talents best for leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content. Below is a ranking of Feral Druid-specific PvE talents.

1. Fresh Wound can provide additional burst to targets when applying your Rake effect, and is a solid increase across the board when cycling between targets.
2. Leader of the Pack grants 10% additional movement speed and causes players to heal for 3% of their maximum health when they critically strike with a 6-second cooldown. Provides free sustain and mobility, making it a good first option.
3. Ferocious Wound provides additional damage to your Ferocious Bite that can be useful on high health targets due the maximum health reduction it applies. Value is mostly tied to the difficulty of the enemies you are encountering.
4. Savage Momentum causes successful interrupts with Skull Bash to reduce the cooldown of Tiger's Fury, Stampeding Roar and Survival Instincts by 10 seconds. This can be useful for moving around the world and extra burst windows on targets.
5. Thorns can provide some use in situations with extra enemies present, to allow you to deal additional damage back when being hit.

Other options are much more focused on enemy control, which is more oriented around PvP gameplay, rather than killing enemies more efficiently, so they are not recommended.