#0 - Dec. 11, 2006, 8:55 p.m.
Tier 1
Ferocity
Reduces the cost of your Maul, Swipe, Claw, Rake and Mangle abilities by 5 Rage or Energy (rank 5)
The basic tool of a feral druid is also a good choice for balance or resto: it requires a little investment (as a tier 1 talent) and boosts your main feral weapons.
TANKING: *****
DMGDEALING:*****
PVP: *****
Feral Aggression
Increases the Attack Power reduction of your Demoralizing Roar by 40% and the damage caused by your Ferocious Bite by 15% (rank 5)
A good talent, but Ferocity wins hands down. If you are going to be full feral is a good choice, but not as an alternative.
+ 40% on Demo Roar is a nice thing, especially when you fight multiple mobs: on long fights you are going to save a lot of hit points by which you can outlast your enemy.
+ 15% on FB is a good addition, but you usually will prefer RIP as finishing move, because FB is affected by armor reduction (nonetheless is very valuable against casters).
TANKING: ****
DMGDEALING:***
PVP: ***
Tier 2
Feral Instinct (requires 5 points in Feral Combat)
Increases threat caused in Bear and Dire Bear Form by 15% and reduces the chance enemies have to detect you while Prowling (rank 3)
If you are going to be the main tank in a group you will love this talent: Your normal attacks now generate a lot of hate and in combination with your special ones you can steal aggro even from warriors (at least fury warriors)!
As well, with Feral Instinct maxed, you’ll prowl like if you were 3 level higher (the bonus is greater if you are a Night Elf): you will be able even to touch your equal level enemies without being seen.
An improved stealth ability combined with track humanoids is pretty useful in PVP.
From patch 2.01 this talent is cheaper: now costs 3 talent points instead of 5.
TANKING: *****
DMGDEALING:***
PVP: ****
Brutal Impact (requires 5 points in Feral Combat)
Increases the stun duration of your Bash and Pounce abilities by 1 sec (rank2)
Excluding Tauren War Stomp, we have only a life-saver stun: Bash. With only 2 points you will earn a 5 seconds stun (with Bash rank 6), that is enough to shift out and cast an Healing Touch. At lower levels is a survival talent!
In addiction, you can improve Pounce too: with BI and Imp Shred you can stack 2 shreds and earn 3 or more combo points before your target hits you once. Definitely a recommended talent.
TANKING: ****
DMGDEALING: ****
PVP: ****
Thick Hide (requires 5 points in Feral Combat)
Increases your Armor contribution from items by 10% (rank 3)
With this talent your dire bear form (or Moonkin form) will have a 605% armor instead of “only” 550%.
But also your caster form and your squishy cat will get more survivabilty: Thick Hide adds a flat +10% to your current armor value, in all forms.
Recommended for tanking.
From patch 2.01 this talent is cheaper: now costs 3 talent points instead of 5.
TANKING: ****
DMGDEALING: **
PVP: ***
Tier 3
Feral swiftness (requires 10 points in Feral Combat)
Increases your movement speed by 30% while outdoors in Cat Form and increases your chance to dodge while in Cat Form, Bear Form and Dire Bear Form by 4% (2 rank).
Excellent to shred runners, it will allow you to move through Azeroth a lot faster and 9 level before you gain your travel form: you will love it in Battlegrounds.
In addition your feral forms will dodge more, increasing damage mitigation: recommended for tanking.
It is worth the 2 points required.
TANKING: ****
DMGDEALING: **
PVP: ****
Feral Charge (requires 10 points in Feral Combat)
5 Rage 8-25 yd range
Instant 15 sec cooldown
Requires Bear Form, Dire Bear Form
Causes you to charge an enemy, immobilizing and interrupting any spell being cast for 4 sec.
Would you like to stop fleeing mobs, flag runners, healing/nuking casters far away from you, with only a click? Useful also when you need to heal yourself: charge, gain some distance and shift out for healing.
Here it is, with only 15 sec cooldown: a must have for all druids that costs only a talent point.
It is an instant ability almost free, but it requires 5 rage to work: if combined with Furor becomes really instant.
TANKING: *****
DMGDEALING: ***
PVP: *****
Sharpened Claw (requires 10 points in Feral Combat)
Increases your critical strike chance while in Bear, Dire Bear or Cat Form by 6% (rank 3)
An essential tool for both the damage dealer and the tank: boosts your damage (and your threat) with a lot of crit %. In combination with LotP and +agi + crit equip you can generate an insane amount of crits (about + 30%)
TANKING: ****
DMGDEALING: ****
PVP: ****
Tier 4
Shredding Attacks (requires 15 points in Feral Combat)
Reduces the energy cost of your Shred ability by 18 and the rage cost of your Lacerate ability by 2 (rank 2)
A cheaper shred is great on its own, but you won’t miss for any reason a 42 energy shred that deals 30% more damage (thanks to Mangle). If you aim for some big numbers in dmg dealing, take shredding attacks with Mangle and your cat will really hurt! The lacerate part is a good addition, even more useful after maul and swipe threat nerf.
TANKING: ***
DMGDEALING: *****
PVP: **
Predatory Strikes (requires 15 points in Feral Combat)
Increases your Attack Power in Cat, Bear and Dire Bear Forms by 150% of your level (rank 3)
Not as good as at fist glance, it will add 90 AP to your 60th level druid: 6,4 dps are not that good, but you need this talent if you want Hearth of the Wild and you surely want it.
TANKING: **
DMGDEALING: ***
PVP: ***
Primal Fury (requires 5 points in Sharpened Claws - 15 points in Feral Combat)
Gives you a 100% chance to gain an additional 5 Rage anytime you get a critical strike while in Bear and Dire Bear Form and your critical strikes from cat form abilities that add combo points have a 100% chance to add an additional combo point (rank 2)[/i]
Recommended for all uses: tanking, pvp and dmgdealing. More rage and combo points mean that you can perform more frequent/effective special attacks. For only 2 combo points this talent make your feral form far more effective and lethal.
TANKING: *****
DMGDEALING: *****
PVP: *****
Tier 5
Savage Fury (requires 20 points in Feral Combat)
Increases the damage caused by your Claw, Rake, and Mangle (cat) abilities by 20% (rank 2)
+ 20% on your main feral weapons is a consistent extra damage for only 2 points: you can’t miss it if want to max your cat damage. From patch 2.010 this talent doesn't buff anymore bear skills and therefore a tanking profile can skip it.
TANKING: *
DMGDEALING: ****
PVP: ****
Feral Faerie Fire (requires 20 points in Feral Combat)
30 yd range
Instant 6 sec cooldown
Requires Cat Form, Bear Form, Dire Bear Form
Decrease the armor of the target by 175 for 40 sec. While affected, the target cannot stealth or turn invisible.
Armor reduction is a nice addiction (you can train further ranks), useful to bring down cloth wearers faster, even if it’s not as effective as warrior sunder armor, that can stack up to 5 times.
However FF shines for another reason: it is very annoying for rogues, because they can’t restealth while are faerie fired. Furthermore this talent is absolutely free and you can spamm it at your wish. Do you want another reason to love this talent? It is an excellent way to pull enemies: we can’t equip ranged weapons, but FF has the same effect, in terms of pulling single mobs.
Another one? It generates hate, not a lot, but enough and if you are the main tank, spamming FF can help you to keep aggro.
TANKING: ****
DMGDEALING: ****
PVP: ****
Nurturing Instinct (requires 20 points in Feral Combat)
Increases your healing spells by up to 50% of your Strength (rank 2)
A true hybrid talent, that is supposed to make feral druids better healers: you can cast more effective Rejuvination, Lifebloom and Regrowth without need to equip + healing gear, but simply boosting your main feral stat.
Anyway is not so useful as it could seem at first glance, because feral druids need faster healing spells, more than larger ones.
TANKING: **
DMGDEALING: **
PVP: ***
Tier 6
Hearth of the Wild (requires 3 points in Predatory Strike - 25 points in Feral Combat)
Increases your Intellect by 20%. In addition, while in Bear or Dire Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 20% and while in Cat Form your Strength is increased by 20% (rank 5)
One of best druid talents. this talent deserves all the points spent to gain it (30) without any doubt: it makes feral druid a more effective healer (helping him not to be banned from all raids), a tougher bear and a more deadly cat. The good news is that strength and stamina bonus apply on your final stats (already enhanced with potions and equipment) and not only on your base stats: it means that for every single strenght in caster form your cat will have 1,2 points (that is 2,4 AP) and the same happens with stamina for bear.
TANKING: *****
DMGDEALING: *****
PVP: *****
