Feral Druid DPS Stat Priority — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.3

The stat priority for Feral Druid is as follows:

1. Critical Strike;
2. Mastery;
3. Versatility.
4. Haste;
5. Agility.

Feral currently leans heavily into secondary stats over primaries, with a strong focus on Critical Strike and Mastery. There are no fixed ratios, but it is common to see Mastery and Critical Strike fluctuate as the best performing secondary stat at higher gear levels. Ideally, to decide on specific gear, you should generate your own stat weight plot within SimulationCraft. This is due to stats currently present on your gear potentially altering the ideal choice drastically.

Agility provides you with Attack Power, which increases the damage of your melee attacks and abilities.

Critical Strike increases the chance for your attacks and abilities to critically strike, dealing double damage. Your Combo Point-generating abilities such as Shred also grant an extra Combo Point when they Critically Strike.

Mastery, through Mastery: Razor Claws, increases the damage of your Bleed effects and finishing moves. This gains in value in multiple target situations where you have multiple instances of the same Bleed spread across different targets.

Haste increases attack speed, Energy regeneration and the tick rate of your Bleed DoT effects. Haste also decreases the your Global Cooldown to a minimum of 0.750 seconds. Feral Druids also gain 50% additional Haste from rating on gear.

Versatility increases all damage and healing you do, and reduces all damage taken.

When considering these stat priorities, be aware that Feral has a good amount of synergy between each of them, so going too far into one direction can in some cases have negative effects. Try to generally aim for Critical Strike and Mastery as your focus. Still, pay close attention with this rule in mind to simulations of your gear that show trends with stats you may be neglecting.