A thought occurred to me today...
Most Ferals spec 2 points into Primal Fury...it's good stuff.
As a bear tank, Primal Fury + Swipe spam already translates into almost endless rage (gear dependent to an extent, of course).
A limiting factor on this, however, was that the most targets you could ever hit at the same time is 3. 3 x 5 = 15 rage so if you crit on every target with every swipe, it's basically a no-rage attack.
HOWEVER
If you eliminate the target restriction on Swipe and find yourself facing multiple mobs (ie. ballroom trash in Kara or murloc trash during Tidewalker fight) and you crank up the swipe spam, you're basically looking at an enormous boost to feral AoE dps. Enormous. Still not necessarily on par with caster AoE, but casters are limited by mana...if you've got 10 targets in front of you and a 30% crit chance, the numbers say you will never run out of rage.
Right now, my mostly T5 druid hits for an easy 3-400 non-crit/target when I swipe. If this remains as it is, I can totally see bear form as the feral dps form of choice for AoE pulls. Not that that's a bad thing, but something tells me it won't last.
Thoughts?