Feral Druid DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within Pre-Patch
On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items for your Feral Druid in World of Warcraft The War Within Pre-Patch.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Feral DPS Druid gear and best in slot.
Gearing a Feral Druid
Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Feral Druid for The War Within Pre-patch. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Feral Druid, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.
Note that during the pre-patch, gear is still available from many leftover Dragonflight Season 4 sources, and this page will be updated in the lead-up to the expansion release with new information for The War Within.
BiS Gear Guide for Feral Druid
Feral aims for the highest item level pieces available for the bonus Agility, after that, Critical Strike and Mastery are the secondaries of choice. The only items that tend not to follow the item level rule is Jewelry, as these have no Agility. Thus, power is weighted more toward ideal secondary stats. Visit our Stats page for more details.
BiS Gear for Feral Druid
BiS List for Feral Druid
This list is the ideal DPS setup, including all sources available to
us. This includes Crafting, Raids, Mythic+, and even The Great Vault. Therefore,
think of this more as an end goal to work toward, as this list provides
the most balanced end setup, assuming you have access to everything. All
crafts use Draconic Missive of the Peerless unless otherwise stated.
Slot | Item | Source/Note |
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Weapon | ![]() |
Mythic Fyrakk |
Alternative | ![]() |
Mythic Rashok |
Helm | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / The Great Vault |
Neck | ![]() |
Crafted by Jewelcrafting |
Shoulder | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / The Great Vault |
Cloak | ![]() |
Mythic Sarkareth |
Chest | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / The Great Vault |
Bracers | ![]() |
Crafted by Leatherworking |
Gloves | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / The Great Vault |
Belt | ![]() |
Mythic Rashok |
Legs | ![]() |
Mythic Fyrakk |
Boots | ![]() |
Mythic Gnarlroot |
Ring #1 | ![]() |
Mythic Eranog |
Ring #2 | ![]() |
Mythic Broodkeeper Diurna |
Trinket #1 | ![]() |
Mythic Smolderon |
Trinket #2 | ![]() |
Mythic Echo of Neltharion |
Alternative #1 | ![]() |
Mythic Smolderon |
Alternative #2 | ![]() |
Mythic Broodkeeper Diurna |
For our crafted embellishment pieces, Feral aims to pick up a Neck and Bracers
as offpieces for better stat options. While it has inconsistent uptime, the value
of double Blue Silken Lining is just too high and even when inconsistent,
still provides the best option in all content.
Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Feral Druid
This list contains the ideal options for each slot available from Mythic+ dungeons added in the Season 4 pool. These are items that are worth target farming if you are looking to gear up a character and have holes in your gear set. This does not include any Raid or Crafted items.
Note: this is not a list for the best gear to wear when doing Mythic+, and instead a list of the best gear available from these dungeons in each respective slot. For that, see the overall list.
Slot | Item | Source/Note |
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Weapon | ![]() |
The Azure Vault |
Alternative | ![]() |
Algeth'ar Academy |
Helm | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Neck | ![]() |
The Nokhud Offensive |
Shoulder | ![]() |
Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr |
Cloak | ![]() |
Neltharus |
Chest | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Bracers | ![]() |
The Azure Vault |
Gloves | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Belt | ![]() |
The Azure Vault |
Legs | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Boots | ![]() |
Brackenhide Hollow |
Ring #1 | ![]() |
Neltharus |
Ring #2 | ![]() |
Algeth'ar Academy |
Trinket #1 | ![]() |
Algeth'ar Academy |
Trinket #2 | ![]() |
Neltharus |
Alternative | ![]() |
The Nokhud Offensive |
Raid Gear BiS List for Feral Druid
This list provides the best item in each slot available within the 3 different Awakened Dragonflight raids available. This does not include any Crafted pieces.
Note: this is not a list for the best gear to wear when Raiding, and instead a list of the best item available from the current raid in each slot. For that, see the overall list.
Slot | Item | Source/Note |
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Weapon | ![]() |
Fyrakk |
Alternative | ![]() |
Rashok |
Helm | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Neck | ![]() |
Tindral Sageswift |
Shoulder | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Cloak | ![]() |
Sarkareth |
Chest | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Bracers | ![]() |
Broodkeeper Diurna |
Gloves | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Belt | ![]() |
Rashok |
Legs | ![]() |
Fyrakk |
Boots | ![]() |
Gnarlroot |
Ring #1 | ![]() |
Eranog |
Ring #2 | ![]() |
Broodkeeper Diurna |
Trinket #1 | ![]() |
Smolderon |
Trinket #2 | ![]() |
Echo of Neltharion |
Alternative | ![]() |
Broodkeeper Diurna |
Enchants and Sockets
If you have a new piece of gear containing prismatic sockets or are eligible to be enchanted, you can find everything you need to pick the best one for the job on our dedicated enchants page below.
"Simming" Yourself as a Feral Druid
Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each individual gear piece you have access to can change the overall balance and alter what is best right now for you.
While we do offer generic sim charts for Trinkets and offer recommendations, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!
If you are new to simming and Raidbots, check out our detailed guide below.
Tier Set Bonus for Feral Druid in Season 4
During the War Within pre-patch, the set bonus from Dragonflight Season 4 is
still available and is the Benevolent Embersage's Guidance. This
focuses on Feral Frenzy, and confers the following bonuses:
-
Druid Feral 10.2 Class Set 2pc - Casting
Feral Frenzy grants
Smoldering Frenzy for 8 seconds, increasing all damage you deal by 20%.
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Druid Feral 10.2 Class Set 4pc - Reduces the cooldown of
Feral Frenzy by 15 seconds, and during
Smoldering Frenzy, enemies burn for 10% of all damage you deal to them as Fire over 10 seconds.
Either of these bonuses makes Feral Frenzy a mandatory
talent point to activate it. This puts your damage on a 30-second cooldown
cycle aligned with each Feral Frenzy cast, in which you want to have all of
your Bleed management set up before entering into the window. While active,
you want to focus on filling it with high-value casts such as
Ferocious Bite,
so pooling is needed due to the short duration. It also opens up the option to
play both
Convoke the Spirits and, in some cases, reduce its cooldown via
Ashamane's Guidance depending on encounter to get extra triggers.
As it can be obtained through all 3 different raids, The Great Vault and the Revival Catalyst, it should be quite easy to acquire the 4-piece bonus. The bosses within each raid that drop each piece are as follows:
Slot | Vault | Aberrus | Amirdrassil |
---|---|---|---|
Helm | Raszageth | Magmorax | Tindral Sageswift |
Shoulder | Broodkeeper Diurna | Echo of Neltharion | Smolderon |
Chest | Kurog Grimtotem | Zskarn | Nymue |
Gloves | Dathea | Forgotten Experiments | Igira the Cruel |
Legs | Sennarth | Rashok | Larodar |
Omni-Token | Raszageth | Sarkareth | Fyrakk, the Blazing |
Best Crafted Items for Feral Druid
With Professions, you can craft items with customizable stats in nearly all slots with up to Item Level 525. This means that for many non-tier slots, Crafted items are a competitive alternative when gearing or to fill up gaps in your gearset.
If you want to learn more about the Crafting system in general and potentially craft your own items for less Gold, check out our dedicated page below.
Best Feral Druid Crafting Order
Best Crafting Order for Feral Druid
This is our general recommendation for the best Crafting Order. All
crafts, unless otherwise stated, use a Draconic Missive of the Peerless
wherever possible.
Torc of Passed Time using
Blue Silken Lining,
Life-Bound Bindings using
Blue Silken Lining,
Signet of Titanic Insight (with
Alchemical Flavor Pocket)
- Lowest Item Level Piece.
If you are still struggling to acquire a weapon, you can invest two sparks
into an Obsidian Seared Halberd.
Blue Silken Lining is difficult to fault even with lower uptime due
to the sheer amount of Mastery provided.
Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch
is an alternative for consistency if you are worried (and provides a nice
activator for
Seal of Diurna's Chosen) though, but falls behind
significantly in AoE scenarios.
Feral Druid Crafting Details
Embellishments either come set on items as standard or can be added with an optional reagent when crafting the piece. These provide additional bonuses (and in some cases quite large ones) but are limited to two. Due to there being so many options, here we explain in detail the ones available that are worth considering:
Blue Silken Lining - while the uptime is not consistent due to the amount of chip damage, even as low as 40% uptime provides a significant increase to one of our strongest stats - Mastery. This means that even if you cannot guarantee a high uptime, it still gains a lot of value over weaker tuned alternatives available.
Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch - less risky than using the above Embellishment as it does not risk losing value when you take damage. Can also serve as an activator for the
Seal of Diurna's Chosen ring, but the performance loss is enough to make this more of a comfort pick.
Toxic Thorn Footwraps - these still do solid single-target damage, but the investment and loss of Stamina when alternatives are equivalent or more flexible makes them a less desirable choice than previous seasons.
Toxified Armor Patch - can be applied to any Leather armor piece to double up on the value from Toxic Thorns, making it an alternative, even though it does increase the Stamina loss downside of using them.
Elemental Lariat* - While this is a good alternative, the value it provides relative to
Blue Silken Lining means you would need to be unable to maintain it almost at all to keep up. This paired with needing a full suite of 8 sockets to make useful makes it not worth considering.
Undulating Sporecloak - Grants Versatility while above 70% that can be easily maintained. Unfortunately, both he offensive and defensive effects are far too weak to consider and as such even though it may look appealing, is not worth it.
Slimy Expulsion Boots* - these are weaker than Toxic Thorns as the downside of losing Haste is more pronounced and as such you should avoid crafting these.
Alchemical Flavor Pocket* - this does not require an Embellishment slot, and as such, it is worth using to avoid losing your Well Fed buff should you die.
Trinkets for Feral Druid in Season 3
In The War Within Pre-patch, there are a lot of strong options left over from Season 4 that work for Havoc in different situations. Unfortunately, they all come from raids, so require group content to access.
Trinket | Note |
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A huge amount of frontloaded agility on the same cooldown as ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Passive Versatility that comes with a big Agility proc triggered by DoT effects. While RNG, the value of these procs is really big, making it a great pick for any type of content. That flexibility makes it worthwhile in both raids and Mythic+. |
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Deals very high burst damage every 2 minutes, with large cooldown reduction should an ally die. This can be very useful for priority targets in both raids and Mythic+, and the hidden value in the CDR can sometimes be a lifesaver. While not numerically as strong as alternatives, the potential makes this worthy of consideration. |
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Deals extremely high single-target damage but takes up to 3 minutes to
fully ramp up. While the backlash damage is quite high, surviving through it
is fine and definitely worth it. Also provides an activator for the
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A pure stat stick option with the flexibility to shift the stat gained based on your gearset. Some of the value relies on 4 allies also wearing one to activate the secondary buffs, but this is still a solid trinket on its own as a consistent pick for both Raid and Mythic+. |
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A Critical Strike stat stick that has additional secondary procs so long as an allied Healer and Tank are also using it. While this is a good option on its own, it is slightly more restrictive for gearing than the above, and it is also unlikely tanks will be using this to activate the full buff suite in Season 4. |
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This is a very niche option that provides a huge uncapped AoE burst window, though infrequently. While the potential is very high for Mythic+ situations, the fact that you remain rooted for the duration puts you in extreme danger while it is active. This danger paired with the long cooldown means it requires very careful planning and the right situation to be worthwhile, so use at your own discretion. |
Trinket Simulations for Feral Druid
These are generic simulations from Bloodmallet, giving you a rough overview of strong Feral Druid Trinkets. It is not a replacement for simming yourself, but can still offer a quick reference point.
Check out the BiS Lists if you just want to know the best Trinkets from M+ and Raid.
BiS Trinkets for Feral Druid
Best Raiding & Single-Target Trinkets for Feral Druid
Best Mythic+ & AoE Trinkets for Feral Druid
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4 and Awakened gear release.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5, highlighted Ashes of the Embersoul as equal to Witherbark's.
- 07 Nov. 2023: Updated to remove Sporecloak recommendation, switched Toxic Thorn/Toxic Patch.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Restructured for Patch 10.1.7, information remains the same.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5 with megadungeon gear, and clarified crafting section.
- 25 May 2023: Added section on Cataclysm Timewalking.
- 09 May 2023: Updated to account for Trinket changes.
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1 and Season 2 release with new gear recommendations.
- 24 Mar. 2023: Updated for Primordial Gemstones hotfixes.
- 22 Mar. 2023: Updated to account for Primordial Stone buffs.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7 with Onyx Annulet recommendations.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed and updated for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Wordup, a frequent theorycrafter involved in a number of class communities. He is also an experienced player who has been in the world top 100 since the days of Sunwell, currently raiding in Echoes. You can also follow him on Twitter.
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