WotLK Feral DPS DiscussionFollow

I would highly suggest looking at mods such as BankItems which lets you look at your bank wherever you are.

I'll check this out. I only carry my Tanks and DPS sets with me. One time in 10 man Naxx I picked up healer shouders. I got back to the bank and found I already had them. Thankfully no one else in the run needed them.

I'm starting to put together a Boomkin set, but it's a very low priority. The other night the Undying Curse tricket dropped and I thought the Boomkin in the group was having an ****** when he won it LOL

I love the fact that I'm the only Feral Druid in our guild runs and there isn't a rogue either.

This will give me almost a whole bag. Stupid resto set taking up space.

I usually only carry it to compare upgrades. I mean it is fairly sexy looking, except the hat, but that is no reason to lug around almost a full set of gear.

So... any good links on a Cat build 3.1? I tried the tanking aspect of things but ATM my gear is to crappy for the pug's I get in, people just go apes#%t on DPS and have me running around. I think I'll chill in Cat DPS mode for a while and pick up some gear..

Close to what I would do, cept take 2 points from Furor and put into IMP MotW for the 2% increase to stats.

Rarely am I out of cat form for more than than a Brez or Innervate, so the 60 energy compared to 100 energy has minimal impact.

Kitty Spec

As it is, I'll be Tank and Resto for my dual spec. I prefer to dps on my Ele shammy for now, although I probably do a chunk more in my kitty gear. It'll be up to whether it's a melee friendly or ranged friendly encounter.

EDIT: Noticed one other change. Take the 2 points from Infected wounds (tank should have up the debuff) and moved to Feral Swiftness. I like having the 30% increase to speed to help with movement intensive fights. Helps to keep your DPS uptime higher imo.

Edited, Apr 15th 2009 1:53pm by Galenmoon

Yeah the two points I put in Feral Aggression can be moved about anywhere. SI is a good filler as you mentioned and 4/5 furor never hurts. All a matter of how the circumstances play out.

From my understanding Genesis doesn't help with melee DPS.

King of the Jungle needs to be 3/3.

I don't believe Infected Wounds effects bosses at all - if it did it would seem way too OP. You're better off taking those two points out, investing one into KotJ and one in Survival Instincts (I like that because you need it at some point to progress further into the tree, and it makes a handy "oshi-" button).

On a personal basis, I'd prefer to have three points boosting my Swipe damage in Feral Instinct (for adds during boss fights, etc.) rather than my Ferocious Bite (don't really get to use it that often). I'd also go with 3/5 Furor and 2/2 IMotW - 2% stat bonus is nice, and you really don't need that extra energy. Furor is far, far more useful while leveling than in a raid situation. Really depends on how often you find yourself breaking form while DPSing though.

For a dps spec, Furor is wasted more than anything going higher than 3/5 when you consider how often you do break form to innervate, brez, or run to/from something and hot yourself along the way.

By the time you're finished innervating, brezzing, or running to/from and hotting yourself, you should already be back to cat form and energy ticking back upward from 60 toward 100 and ready to go by the time you're finished running around and back on target.

Once Upward of 1000Agility that 2% passive is worth ~20+ Agility. That should be worth more for your DPS than having full 100energy instead of getting 60 every time you hit cat considering the above things and the fact that for the most part you wouldn't be shifting out of cat that much to benefit from that extra energy more than you would benefit from the 2% stats/20+ agility.

It's 20+ agility that's always on (plus a little strength) VS how often are you going to swap forms to get use out of the extra energy of furor?


My spec for dps is the same as galenmoon's except I move two points out of feral aggression and put it into Nurturing Instinct and my argument for that is that with 70% of my agility being worth healing spell power I have 851 to heals with just my own mark of wild. It makes tranquility quite a step up, it makes my own hots when fights require me to run over this way or that quite a bit more potent (while playing in the air on maly where all you can do is hot yourself or moonfire [I wish it affected spell damage too]), plus the talent affects leader of the pack for just you while in cat which helps survivability, plus 20% heals on you while in cat from other sources makes healers tasks easy when they can throw a small heal on you and then forget you.

Edited, Apr 16th 2009 6:30pm by Torzak