Feral Druid DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.1

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, Azerite 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 lot of good options for specific situations, but even considering Patch 9.0.5 changes, Circle of Life and Death gets the most mileage out of a single craft in different content scenarios.

However, more focused options such as Draught of Deep Focus and Apex Predator's Craving can also be considered depending on content. For a more detailed explanation on each Legendary option you can check our dedicated page below:

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

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.

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.

Note that as of Patch 9.0.5 these items can also be upgraded all the way up to item level 246 via the new Valor system; if possible, hunting these items and upgrading them to fill any gaps in your gear is ideal.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Hood of Refracted Shadows	Halls of Atonement
Neck	Trailspinner Pendant	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Shoulder	Far Traveler's Shoulderpads	De Other Side
Cloak	Cloak of Enveloping Manifestations	Sanguine Depths
Chest	Freshly Embalmed Jerkin	The Necrotic Wake
Wrists	Bands of the Undergrowth	Mists of Tirna Scithe
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

The new mega-dungeon introduces new items at a base item level of 226, or 233 if completed on the hard-mode difficulty. Due to the inability to upgrade them, they are mostly sidegrades until you are able to get hold of new options.

One exception to this however is the quest item to access hard-mode, the Passably-Forged Credentials neck. The proc activates anywhere, and can be an alternative that competes with some slightly higher item level options.

Patch 9.1 introduces the Domination socket system, with unique slots that can have Shard of Domination gems applied to them and are acquired within the Sanctum of Domination raid. For Leather, these are present on Helms, Shoulders, Chests, Gloves, and Boots acquired within the raid and are something you should aim to get all 5 of.

Your priority for Shards is in the following order:

1. Complete the Unholy gem set bonus, requiring a Shard of Dyz, Shard of Zed, and Shard of Oth. This bonus also requires you to have a Domination Socket Helm to activate.
2. Fill out your 4th and 5th slots with Shard of Bek and Shard of Cor gems from the Blood and Frost types respectively.

If you would like to know more about the remaining Domination Shards' effects, their set bonuses, or how to upgrade their effects into even more potent forms, please see our official guide detailing everything about this new system of Patch 9.1:

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

Of note is the Jotungeirr, Destiny's Call weapon that has a unique on-use effect, granting a large amount of all secondary stats for 30 seconds. This shares a cooldown with trinkets, but can be swapped meaning that it will very likely be a strong option if synced with Berserk and Convoke the Spirits.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Cowl of Haunting Precognition	Fatescribe Roh-Kalo
Neck	Weathered Talisman of the Shadowmoon	Remnant of Ner'zhul
Shoulder	Spaulders of the Crooked Confidant	Kel'Thuzad
Cloak	Cloak of Scarred Honor	Soulrender Dormazain
Chest	Witherheart Studded Breastplate	Sylvanas Windrunner
Wrists	Clasps of the Unfortunate Troubadour	The Tarragrue
Gloves	Loyal Kvaldir's Handwraps	The Eye of the Jailer
Belt	Windrunner's Baldric	Sylvanas Windrunner
Legs	Elite Aranakk Breeches	Kel'Thuzad
Boots	Trenchant Warmonger Treads	Soulrender Dormazain
Ring #1	Tarnished Insignia of Quel'Thalas	Sylvanas Windrunner
Ring #2	Oscillating Ouroboros	Fatescribe Roh-Kalo
Weapon (Unique Effect)	Jotungeirr, Destiny's Call	The Nine
Alternative	Pylon of the Great Purge	Guardian of the First Ones