as rarebeast said. try not to stick to a dps and only dps mentaility for a druid. Cat is only one face of the druid class and our greatest strength is our versitility. great you are the top 5 in grul in a group of equal geared people. In a group of 25. top 5 is just saying you're no 5 out of 14-17 dps. 6-8 healers 2-4 tank/offtanks. In kara top 3 means you're the middle of the dps scale as there are 5-6 dpsers.
if you're looking to be a damage zombie, try the rogue, mage or hunter forum. Raid wise good raid leaders look for the guys who know how to and will be willing to play their class to the max. ie offtanking/ maintanking, healing and dps. irregardless of their personal preference of ONLY dps. in druid terms the class that ONLY dps is moonkin. (though they also do offhealing from time to time) as a feral druid I have currently +1.2k healing. 250mp/5 and 10K mana pool.(unenchanted+ common gems) on the off chance I ever need to heal an instance for others or the guild I'm in ever overshoots on the tank and dps requirement and desprately needs healers. I've a running joke with the gm that I'll pull out of the guild bank 125g for the respec + training costs (abet it's only 15g for respec atm ^_^)
DPS wise have fun and good luck whatever you do or how well you do. give the rest of us an updated as it comes and we'll look forwards to any stories you can tell us about your runs as a kitty druid.
ps once kara or another instance starts feeling like farm, get Gift of Arthas for the tank and cut 5 min /hour for the run.
Edited, Feb 21st 2008 2:28pm by Addermine