Feral Druid PvP Talents and Builds — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0.1)

Here is the best build for maximizing your damage output into teams:

The goal for this build is to deal as much spread pressure as possible with your bleeds, Rip/ Rake, and dealing strong single-target damage with Ferocious Bite.

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

Some important spells to note in the Druid talent tree:

• Although you do not choose any of the final talents in the Druid talent tree, Well-Honed Instincts, is a crucial defensive for Feral Druids. This will use Frenzied Regeneration when you drop below 40% once every 90 seconds. This is great versus teams that have stuns for you or if you are the primary target.
• Frenzied Regeneration, Verdant Heart, Thick Hide, Natural Recovery, and Aessina's Renewal are all talents that help increase your survivability when you are the focus of enemy teams.
• Fluid Form allows Shred and Rake to be used in any form and will shift you in to Cat Form.

Some important spells to note in the Feral Druid Talent tree:

• Sabertooth. Because most of your damage is single target, increasing the damage of Ferocious Bite is crucial for landing kills when the enemy healer is in crowd control.
• Lunar Inspiration allows Moonfire to generate 1 combo point when used in Cat Form.
• Feral Frenzy. This talent deals a large amount of damage and awards 5 Combo Points. This means you can follow Feral Frenzy up with a large Ferocious Bite for strong instant damage. The damage of this spell is drastically increased by Focused Frenzy.
• Incarnation: Avatar of Ashamane is your primary burst cooldown. This replaces Berserk, but still gains its effects. It will also reduce the energy cost of all Cat Form abilities by 25%.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has its uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents depending on your team's goal.

If you are playing with a specialization that does not have a Mortal Wounds debuff, you should be using Wicked Claws. This makes your Infected Wounds stack and reduce healing done to that target.

Tireless Pursuit makes it so you retain up to 40% of your movement speed when you leave Cat Form or Travel Form. This is important for maintaining up time on your target and making it very difficult for enemies to get away from you.

High Winds increases the ranges of Cyclone, Typhoon, and Entangling Roots by 5 yards. This is a great option for when you are playing against casters that are playing far away.

Ferocious Wound causes 5-Combo Point Ferocious Bites to reduce the target's maximum health for 30 sec, stacking up to 2 times. This makes Ferocious Bite an incredibly important ability and creates a large amount of pressure on an enemy player.

Strength of the Wild gives you more team utility and an additional way to stay alive when you are the focus of the enemy team. This should be taken in almost all situations, especially against teams that do not have many interrupts to stop you from casting Regrowths.