Gear, Gems, and Enchants for PVP! Oh My!Follow

Hello to all Alla posters. I have read the forums here for years for both FFXI and now WoW and you guys have tons of great advice and experiences that I love to draw on and improve myself as a player.

I have recently hit lvl 70 and have started Arena with a SL/SL Warlock. We are new and dropping in rating about as fast as possible. (I didnt know it went below 1200 :) ) I am feral and have been all of my WoW career. I know that is not the best set up for Arena, but I have seen some amazing movies of teams with feral druids on them. As I am grinding honor for the S2 gear and picking up the S4 gloves as soon as possible, I am running across some issues with how to enchant and how to gem gear. Do I look at healing enchants and gems to make up for my lack of talents in that? Or do I go for damage and just hope that I have enough healing to deal with whatever comes my way?

For the record I dont have anything resembling decent gear, but I am working on it everyday to become a better geared druid. Any thing you guys can help me out with would be greatly appreciated. Here is my armory (totally new to 70 so gear really sucks)

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kilrogg&n=Kinzie

I pvped as Feral last season with another Feral Druid and I'll agree that it can be frustrating. We never got above 1650, so I'm no guru, but I can give you some advice.



Use Agility in your reds slots. Even though resilience lowers your dmg from crits, you need to pump them out in order to get bonus CP. Two of your red slots should be Agi/Stam, so that your Agi/Crit Dmg meta will work. Yellow slots should have Resil/Stam. Use the regular max dps enchants for the rest of your gear except for your head. For that, use the LC enchant for Str/Int.



Nope, you should get a Healing Weapon to swap out when you shift out of forms. Take two points of Primal Tenacity and put them into Nurturing Instinct. That will give you about 800 to 1000 +Healing when you need it.

A few random tips;

Ferals can stunlock better than Rogues.
Pounce > Mangle > Shred, then use Maim. Wait for your energy to tick back up and then Mangle/Shred once you're near full. After you blow that energy, Cyclone him. If he trinkets, Warstomp and then Cyclone again. Back to cat and wait for your energy to hit full. Maim again after the next rotation and run out to Feral Charge distance. Charge back and Bash him. Pop back to cat and keep dpsing. If your Lock is fearing his partner and helping to dps, your target should be dead by then.

Just because you're Feral doesn't mean you don't have Roots/Cyclone/Hibernate/Heals.

Tranquility is an amazing heal, especially paired with Barkskin.

Be careful when you pop Innervate, it sucks when it's Dispelled/Purged.

If you shift out just before a Hunter fear or Hibernate finishes, their cast won't work.


Oh, and the lowest your arena rating can become is 700 :X.

Thank you guys much. I am a big fan of Deep and have his 5 and 6 movies with the commentary. I know I have alot of PVE greens. The reason behind this is that rep grinding is such a pain in the a$$ when you are trying to do some pvp to get some better S2 gear.

I am planning on picking up the body and legs when I get the honor. The hands will be the S4 pieces because they just require arena points and not a rating of any kind (thank goodness). Also working toward the vindicator's pieces that I can get with honor and marks. I just put in a healing weapon into my heals and am waiting for a chance to try out some new macros, heals, and tips you guys have given me.

Always working to better myself and give the Alliance one hell of a fight.