Feral Druid DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.2

Welcome to our Gearing Page for Feral Druid, this section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.

You can find information on what to enchant on any new piece of gear you acquire on our dedicated page below.

At this stage in the game, there are so many variables and so many layers of optimization that you can apply to your character, that there is no way for a guide or anything else to tell you exactly what gear you should wear. This is why we always recommend simulating your own character using Raidbots The website can help you choose set bonuses, Soulbind traits, trinkets, and combinations thereof in a way that is tailored completely to your specific character. Learning to use this tool is essential to maximizing your potential, as there is simply no other way to take all the variables into account.

The Droptimizer feature from Raidbots lets you identify which dungeons and Raid Bosses you should spend your Bonus Rolls on. It simulates all of the potential upgrades in a raid or a dungeon, and lists the bosses/dungeons by rank order of how much DPS you can expect to gain from bonus rolling on it. We have a guide for it that you can access using the link below.

While we heavily recommend simming yourself, you can find some of our general simulations on the dedicated page below.

Feral has a few strong options, and your selection is largely defined by the damage profile you are looking for and the Covenant you are playing. The rules to watch for are:

• Before double Legendaries, when playing Night Fae you should be using Celestial Spirits.
• After double Legendaries, this should be paired with Apex Predator's Craving in most situations for both single-target and extra funnel damage in multi target situations.
• Alternatively, it can be paired with Frenzyband for burst and pure single-target situations.

If you want a more detailed explanation of each individual Legendary and also more options for different scenarios, you can look at our dedicated page linked here:

1. Conflux of Elements (Night Fae)
2. Taste for Blood (single-target)
3. Carnivorous Instinct (AoE)

1. Well-Honed Instincts
2. Tough as Bark

For more details regarding each individual Conduit, you can look at our dedicated Covenant, Soulbind and Conduits page linked below:

Due to how strong trinkets can sometimes be, and that they are not always easily accessible from Mythic+, raiding, and PvP sources, we always recommend using Raidbots' Top Gear to determine what your optimal trinkets are.

Bloodmallet.com also provides rankings for Shadowlands trinkets to give a general overview of relative power levels, and things to look out for:

In many cases players often think too much about the specific distribution of secondary stats, when the most important rule tends to be that more stats is better than less. Especially going into Shadowlands with Agility rising to a high priority, this puts more of a focus on item level. This is not a hard rule but will often serve you well when evaluating gear so keep it in mind. For more specific information on stats though you can check our dedicated page below.

Patch 9.2 adds in two- and four-piece set bonuses available for all specializations, adding in effects built around class mechanics when equipped. The Feral effects are as follows:

• Feral Druid 2-Piece — each Combo Point you spend reduces the cooldown of Berserk / Incarnation: King of the Jungle by 0.5 seconds.
• Feral Druid 4-Piece — whenever you enter Berserk / Incarnation: King of the Jungle, you apply a Bleed effect for high damage over 10 seconds to all nearby targets, dealing reduced damage above 8 enemies hit.

This can be obtained from bosses within Sepulcher of the First Ones boss drops and The Great Vault. First and foremost you should aim to activate the four-piece bonus, but the weakest piece is the Chest, so if you have the choice this is the one to drop. You can find more details on our Rotation page covering the impact of the bonuses for Feral:

These pieces can also be accessed outside of the regular drop sources through the new Creation Catalyst system, which will become active roughly 8 weeks after the patch launches. This allows you to use resources gathered in Zereth Mortis to convert items that share slots with Tier pieces into Tier, enabling the set bonus requirements.

Patch 9.2 disables these effects in all forms of content outside of Torghast, The Maw and the Sanctum of Domination raid, so they are no longer something to worry about optimizing.

This is a recommended set of gear available exclusively from Dungeon drops. This excludes open world drops because of how random it can sometimes be to acquire them, so these serve as items to slot in whenever you can. Trinkets are not listed, as they are covered in the dedicated section above.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Hood of Refracted Shadows	Halls of Atonement
Neck	Trailspinner Pendant	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Shoulder	Breakbeat Shoulderguards	Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Cloak	Cloak of Enveloping Manifestations	Sanguine Depths
Chest	Freshly Embalmed Jerkin	The Necrotic Wake
Wrists	Bracers of Autonomous Classification	Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Gloves	Rocket Chicken Handlers	De Other Side
Belt	Girdle of Shattered Dreams	Theater of Pain
Legs	Fearless Challenger's Leggings	Theater of Pain
Boots	Primeval Soul's Ankleguards	De Other Side
Ring #1	Fleshfused Circle	Theater of Pain
Ring #2	Ring of Perpetual Conflict	Theater of Pain
Weapons	Quarterstaff of Discordant Ethic	Spires of Ascension
Alternative	Devos's Cacophonous Poleaxe	Spires of Ascension

This section contains the best gear to look for in the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid. It does not include anything from outside sources, so with some drops you have access to you might have better choices.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Headpiece of the Fixed Stars	Anduin Wrynn
Neck	Beacon of Stormwind	Anduin Wrynn
Shoulder	Shoulderpads of the Fixed Stars	Lords of Dread
Cloak	Drape of Mournful Melodies	Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle
Chest	Fractured Colossus Core	Vigilant Guardian
Wrists	Devourer's Sandblown Hidebinders	Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener
Gloves	Handwraps of the Fixed Stars	Lihuvim, Principal Architect
Belt	Runecarver's Twisted Ward	The Jailer
Legs	Leggings of the Fixed Stars	Halondrus the Reclaimer
Boots	Treads of Titanic Curiosity	Rygelon
Ring #1	Rygelon's Heraldric Ring	Rygelon
Ring #2	Modified Defense Grid	Vigilant Guardian
Weapon	Zovastrum, the Unmaking	The Jailer
Alternative	Elysia's Promise	Prototype Pantheon