Damn Feral DruidsFollow

Coming from someone who have both a druid and a hunter, there are a lot to say but first of all your not the right specc (not that the other speccs will do much better but still )to beat a feral druid.

If you ever beat a feral druid is because of his lack of skill, not because you have many tools against him, they simply don't let you kite them, and they have many skills to keep you close, ER, Nature Grasp for pet, Feral Charge, And dash.

If you used deterrence it means that you stayed too much in their range, try to avoid that as much as possible (yes i know is hard), and for all means don't let him get your back, shred hurts like hell, sometimes aspect of the cheetah can help until his closing in, kitty with talent have the same speed with a hunter in aspect of the cheetah.

If he using dash from start, concussive shot him, try to outlast his dash, if the dash is over, freezing trap he will trinket, and after that you should wingclip. He have nothing else to come to you except feral charge but feral charge means switching to caster and then to kitty a lot of mana used and 1 sec at least to act, the weekness of FG is the dead zone of 8 yards and max 25, try to be in one of those ranges when he goes in teddy form.

No, a nerf don't bring nothing more then whines and nerves, think about the poor droods, is not enough that they are forced to heal in end game raids ?

I've yet to meet any druid silly enough to stay in their form long enough for me to pull that off (or let me last long enough to pull it off)

Personally I have so many tools at my hands to prevent people from getting to me I don't have much of a problem with it. Between my traps, concussive shot, wing clip, intimidation, the trinkets I have and the massive damage I do they never really get close enough to kill me if I spot them first.

That said, if they get the jump on you try your best to get distance and at the very least throw down a trap or a wing clip. Slipping in and out of forms might slow them down just enough to save the flag carrier in wsg or prevent that particular druid from getting towards a base.

I'm curious, what spec are you? As a BM my pet is usually doing enough damage in the background for me to only need to get a few shots off to kill them and doing his part in stunning them via Intimidation.

Theory on beating feral druids:
1: feral druids can get rid of a lot of things through shapeshifting.
Good druids do that, if (s)he doesnt its a free kill.
2: Shapeshifting costs mana. (40% of base mana cost, and feral druids arent known for their huge mana pools ;) )
no mana = no shapeshifitng, no shifting = dead druid.
No mana also means no healing.


Simply said, try to force the druid to shapeshift as much as you can.
Because an oom druid is a dead druid (especially in casterform).

Exactly how to do all that ask more experienced PvOers ;)

I had an interesting go with a feral druid the other night and learned some dos (and don'ts). The problem was, it was druid/druid versus hunter/spriest... and my spriest friend died quickly at the hands of both druids.

While he was being pummeled, I was pummeling their resto healer. Problem being, the spriest died and Mr. Resto shifted to bear so he could take more of a beating.

I got him down, but by the time I did I was oom and nearly oom.

Every time the druid would feral charge, I'd wing-clip and run the other way. A lot of people use freezing traps, but I've also found that snake-traps are INCREDIBLY useful against druids. The cool thing is, even when they trinket out the snakes continue to attack, which interrupts them. Mind-numbing poison + all the dots also help to keep them at bay because if they cleanse one, they may not get the one they want.

This one was not the smartest of them all; he went kitty to try to reach me. Failing that, he went back to bear and tried to charge me. It was a good 5 minute fight which, sadly, ended with a dead hunter and a druid at around 10%. The problem was, I didn't switch to AoTV. If I had done that, I probably could have thrown in an occasional other shot. As it was, I was trappign him and/or dazing him, stopping, firing an auto shot (!!) and kiting again. It was a big, bloody mess.

As said, keep your viper sting on them---it'll hurt. I noticed that Mr. Druid was also OOM, because he stopped shifting after a while. Keep out of range of feral charge if you can (hawkeye helps this). Just keep patient, it won't be a quick kill like you're fighting a squishy.

Having both a hunter and druid i think i can answer your question. I rently fought a Sv hunter friend of mine. We both are equally geared and skilled. He was actually the first hunter to ever beat me lol he was a smart 1. He kept viper sting on me and layed frost traps to slow my speed. and since i can teinket or shapeshift ot of those he just kept kiting me around and when i did a feral charge we would deterrance/readiness/snake trap. Usually he se his frost trap first but he used readiness once for the snake trap to ***** me over. Basically keep a feral druid in a frost trap and kite away. Remember that your pet in gonna be doin the most damage and your only gonna be able to do a arcane or auto shot. and he was at 75% hp while i was at 0 mp and 1 hp lol first hunter to ever beat me and beat me badly he did. Excuse spelling mistakes if I made any, at work and boss is being an *** -_-

Agreed Caldone. It's a tough fight, but by no means impossible. Everyone panicks when they see a druid... but all you have to do is just keep a cool head and be proactive, not reactive.

A druid can do many things well... but not as well as the classes who specialize in them. So, for example, a kitty isn't as powerful as a rogue; a bear isn't as powerful as a warrior, and if they try to pewpew? You've got 'em beat. You have to be an experienced fighter and know how to combat each of these classes (in close time frames, often interchanging)... and if you can do that, you're golden. :)

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I am too lazy to dig up the quote I used last time, but I dug up some confirmation from WoWwiki that Viper Sting does indeed work in all forms now. That information was correct up until the last patch, and I didn't see anything in the patchnotes that indicated changing it.

I haven't done any real testing, but from World PvP with my Druid I have the distinct impression that it does indeed work. I can't truly confirm it since there might be other circumstances in World PvP that made me just think it worked, but combined with the information on WoWwiki I am 99.9% certain it does.

LOL @ Mazra also... glad to see someone else has played portal :)

Druid dots? You mean the Bleed effects? Might I remind you I am a Dwarf ;) Stoneform FTW! That and the ever so handy Luffa!

So, If they are noobs for staying in bear.. What, they come out of bear, try to do something, see oh **** Im OOM, and do what? Silencing shot is always used as soon as they morph into nelf form :)

There is alot of techiniques and tricks for druids, it just takes practice :)

like others have said, play on their low mana pool. hit em with a viper early on and keep it up. do anything you can to slow them and force them to shape shift, traps, wing clip, concussive shot, whaterver. if you are lucky enough to get stuck in caster form they'll either blow a pot or die or both.

viper is your friend with druids. soon the ability to take off a dot with an arcane shot will be great too.

Actually, for most Druids, cleansing away the Serpent Sting is more mana efficient than it is to cast Serpent Sting for us. Viper Sting is the best way now that it works through all forms. Serpent Sting simply costs us too much mana compared to both the damage it does, and the mana it costs them to remove it.