Feral Druid Compendium
Written by: Crazymeow
Rotation
Single Target
What is a priority list?
When reading the priority lists below, you should not think about these as steps to follow in a specific order. At any given point in combat, you should cast the first thing in the list that you are able to cast.
The way this section is written is very formulaic and has the same structure as the Action Priority List (APL) used in sims.
Pre-Combat:
- Precast Swipe until you're tapped on energy
- If you have it, precast Algethar Puzzle Box
- Prowl
- Tiger's Fury immediately before Rake
- Rake from stealth.
Select which talents you have to filter the priority list:
Puzzlebox use is prepull. Main idea of the opener is to get into your cooldowns as quickly as possible. If you know you will hold later, or that you wont lose any cooldown uptime, you can opt to delay by getting a 4+ combo point Rip up and then using Berserk/Feral Frenzy. Probably want to delay Algethar's Puzzle Box until after you Rip if so. You must do delayed opener without Feral Frenzy talented. Skip Convoke the Spirits and the ensuing Ferocious Bite in the listed order if you do not have it talented.
Single Target Priority List:
Highest Priority: Cooldowns
- Tiger's Fury on cooldown
- Use Chomp as soon as it is castable.
- Incarnation with Tiger's Fury.
- Berserk with Tiger's Fury. You can hold this for Convoke if for whatever reason they are misaligned, and you won't lose a cast doing so.
- Feral Frenzy with 2 or fewer combo points. 4 or fewer combo points is also acceptable during Incarn.
- Feral Frenzy with 2 or fewer combo points. 4 or fewer combo points is also acceptable during Berserk.
- Convoke if all of these are true:
- You may also Convoke if the fight is about to end. Usually you want to Convoke with Berserk if you can do so without losing a cast.
Second Priority: Finishers
- Ferocious Bite with Apex Predator's Craving procs.
- Rip if all of these are true:
- You have at least 4 combo points.
- Rip is missing or in pandemic range.
- Tiger's Fury is up, or won't be up before Rip expires.
- Ferocious Bite with at least 4 combo points (5 during Incarn/Berserk) at the lowest energy possible.
- Ferocious Bite with at least 4 combo points and 50 energy outside of Incarn/Berserk
- Ferocious Bite with 5 combo points and 50 energy outside of Incarn/Berserk
- Ferocious Bite with 5 combo points at any energy during Incarn/Berserk
Last Priority: Generators
- Prowl if all of these are true:
- You are not in Shadowmeld
- Rake is in pandemic, or you can upgrade its snapshot by entering Prowl.
- Shadowmeld if all of these are true:
- You are not in Prowl
- Rake is in pandemic, or you can upgrade its snapshot by entering Shadowmeld
- Rake if any of these are true:
- You would be increasing the strength of Rake.
- Rake is in pandemic during Tiger's Fury.
- Rake has 2 or fewer seconds remaining, and will expire before Tiger's Fury is ready.
- Use Lunar Inspiration Moonfire if any of these are true:
- You would be increasing the strength of Moonfire
- Moonfire is in pandemic during Tiger's Fury.
- Moonfire has 2 or fewer seconds remaining, and will expire before Tiger's Fury is ready.
- Shred to continue generating combo points.
TIP
You can instead only use Lunar Inspiration Moonfire in pandemic for a small loss in dps (~0.1-0.2%) if tracking it is too much for now.
Multi Target
Select which talents you have to filter the priority list:
The exact opener you should choose will have a ton of variables. The Rake casts are dual-purpose: They generate combo points, and they delay you going into cooldowns instantly (which risks you dying from threat). You can prepull Prowl if the Rake stun won't be problematic. You may need to cast more Rakes in order to reach 5 combo point in opener. Replace Rake with Swipe if target count is high enough to justify. If you already have combo points from a previous pull, You may even open with Primal Wrath directly. Always cast Algethar's Puzzle Box before using cooldowns. Do not use Frantic Frenzy until the group is stacked. You may want to wait anyways so the tank can get aggro.
AoE priority list (2+ targets):
Highest Priority: Cooldowns
TIP
Use your single target spells on higher healthed/priority mobs
- Tiger's Fury on cooldown. Delay a few seconds as needed for Incarnation/Berserk.
- Tiger's Fury on cooldown. Delay a few seconds if it means you can squeeze Frantic Frenzy into the end of Tiger's Fury or to line it up with Incarnation/Berserk.
- Ferocious Bite with Apex Predator's Craving procs.
- Incarnation. This should always be paired with Tiger's Fury.
- Berserk. This should always be paired with Tiger's Fury.
- Feral Frenzy with 2 or fewer combo points outside Incarn, or 4 or fewer inside Incarn.
- Feral Frenzy with 2 or fewer combo points outside Berserk, or 4 or fewer inside Berserk.
- Frantic Frenzy as soon as possible during Tiger's Fury.
- Convoke when:
Second Priority: Finishers
- Primal Wrath at 5 combo points if Rips have fewer than 6.5s remaining. During Berserk, wait until pandemic instead.
- Primal Wrath at 5 combo points if Rips have fewer than 6.5s remaining. During Incarn, wait until pandemic instead.
- Ravage at 4+ combo points against 5 or more targets.
- Ravage at 4+ combo points
- Apply Rip to targets at 4+ combo points. Also, maybe talent into Primal Wrath?
- Ferocious Bite at 4+ combo points
- Ferocious Bite at 5 combo points
- Ravage at 5+ combo points if there are 7 or fewer targets
- Ferocious Bite at 5+ combo points if there are 4 or fewer targets
- Clip Primal Wrath at 5 combo points if you've made it this far.
Last Priority: Generators
- Apply Rake to targets without it.
- Apply Rake to targets without it.
- Apply Rake to targets without it.
- Prioritize applying Rake until you have at least 6 Rakes.
- Prioritize applying Rake until you have at least 2 Rakes.
- Prioritize applying Rake until you have at least 3 Rakes.
- Prioritize applying Rake until you have at least 3 Rakes.
- Prioritize applying Rake until you have at least 4 Rakes.
- Apply Moonfire to targets without it.
- Spam Swipe during Incarn/Berserk for Claw Rampage procs.
- Above 2 targets, cast Swipe with clearcasting procs.
- Above 2 targets but below 7 targets, cast Swipe with clearcasting procs. We stop swiping at 7+ targets to free up more gcds to upkeep Rakes.
- Cast Swipe with Sudden Ambush if there are 5 or more targets.
- Cast Swipe with Sudden Ambush if there are 7 or more targets.
- Refresh Rake's that are missing or in pandemic.
- Refresh Rake's that are missing or in pandemic when facing up to 8 targets.
- Refresh Rake's that are missing or in pandemic when facing up to 5 targets.
- Refresh Rake's that are missing or in pandemic when facing up to 5 targets.
- Refresh Rake's that are missing or in pandemic when facing up to 3 targets.
- If you only have 2 targets, cast Shred at 0 or 1 combo points.
- Swipe.
TIP
In dungeons, with Killing Strikes and Incarn talented, spread out the Shadowmeld and Prowl casts such that you get more Killing Strikes resets. Even if it means you don't take advantage of Pouncing Strikes.
Talents
Class Talent Explanations
Top Gate Explained
Rejuvenation: Does too little healing and takes you out form
Wild Growth: Better healing, but not enough to justify leaving form. It is not usable for defensive purposes as its a smart heal that does not care about your target.
Ironfur: Most damage we take as dps role is magical or pierces armor. In the times its not, Frenzied Regeneration and Bear Form are already enough.
Sunfire: Doesn't do much damage and can't use in Cat Form
Starfire: into Moonkin Form: Incredibly niche for times where you need access to moonkin Wild Charge or more rarely, Flap. In theory also provides a slight amount of damage if you are stuck out of melee with no other recourse.
Hibernate: Rarely, and almost always in dungeons, you can use this to remove a mob from a pack temporarily. Occasionally this can cause packs that path around to stop moving as it doesn't put you in combat.
Maim: An expensive stun in a world where AoE stuns are prevalent.
Remove Corruption: You will pretty much always talent this, but if you don't need to dispel anything it is droppable for the niche choices.
Nurturing Instinct: This increases the damage of Lunar Inspiration Moonfire by a small amount if you have that talented. This isn't a particularly good talent otherwise but you can run out of things to choose that does something.
Middle Gate Explained
Starlight Conduit: Technically buffs convoke Wrath but its such a small amount of damage that you should consider it zero value.
Lingering Healing: This benefit is far too minor. In theory it synergizes with Forestwalk; in practice, if you need more healing when Regrowth is about to fall off, you just cast it again.
Astral Influence: Primarily used to increase the range of Lunar Inspiration Moonfire. Other uses are hyper-niche.
Matted Fur: This effect got doubled and is thus a much more intriguing take. Essentially if you run out of other stuff, this is where you dump your points.
Typhoon: Displacement often finds a use in Raid. In keys its typically used as a soft-kick.
Ursol's Vortex: Often paired with Typhoon as a poor-man's sigil of chains. Excellent for kiting mobs or helping your tank do so. Particularly effective against mobs who fixate targets.
Mass Entanglement: AoE root. For whenever you need more roots than you can already cast via Entangling Roots.
Bottom Gate Explained
Symbiotic Relationship: This is severely undertuned. Never talent into it.
Ursine Vigor: Essentially limited to only m+. Its only use is to let you survive one-shots you otherwise wouldn't have. Typically only relevant in the highest key levels.
Gale Winds: Rare, and essentially only in raid, for when you need to make Typhoon more reliably knock all of its intended targets.
Incessant Tempest: Rare, and almost always in Raid, for when you need to knock twice in less than 30 seconds.
Lore of the Grove: If you talent Lunar Inspiration, you should probably talent this as well.
Perfectly-Honed Instincts: Nets you more Well-Honed Instincts procs, which often come at a good time.
Incapacitating Roar: In keys this is required. AoE soft-kick, doesn't move mobs around or anything, it just works. Use Fluid Form to return back to Cat Form.
Fluid Form: This is great quality of life and saves you GCDs whenever you find yourself shifting out of Cat Form. Particularly nice in keys to go along with Incapacitating Roar and Bear Form.
Improved Stampeding Roar: If you need nothing else, or if your raid leader tells you to talent into this.
Lycara's Inspiration: An alternate defensive option for the 4% stamina. I consider this weaker than Forestwalk but sometimes you have the free points, and other times you may just feel the increased health is more valuable than the healing taken increase.
Heart of the Wild: An extra defensive (bear) most of the time. That being said, the Wild Growth (caster) version is a solid amount of healing too, about 1.5 times your health pool split across 5 injured players in your group. Its healing is frontloaded too, so it has life-saving potential.
Innervate: If your healer demands it of you.
Raid Talents
CAUTION
These are guesses based on beta raid testing. These will almost certainly change.
Dungeon Talents
Our official recommendation will continue to be Druid of the Claw for mythic+. That being said, Wildstalker is more competitive than its ever been, and is extremely playable. Especially if you feel you need more single target. The main downside of Wildstalker is your ramp-up time is a bit longer (and its arguably more punishing as Rake uptime is more relevant). Due to this, I'd highly recommend Druid of the Claw in lower keys especially.
Consumables
| Type | Consumable |
|---|---|
| DPS Potion | Light's Potential or a bit riskier (for more damage): Draught of Rampant Abandon |
| Healing Potion | Silvermoon Health Potion |
| Food | Any main-stat feast. For example: Harandar Celebration |
| Flask | Highest simming of Flask of the Magisters (default) /Flask of the Blood Knights/Flask of Thalassian Resistance/Flask of the Shattered Sun |
| Oil/Stone | Thalassian Phoenix Oil |
| Augment Rune | Void-Touched Augment Rune |
Gearing
Stat Priority
WARNING
Don't follow any Stat Priority you find. You should always sim your character to decide what gear to equip.
Gems and Enchants
TIP
Listed are the Leech enchants. You can optionally use the Speed or Avoidance variations if you prefer.
| Slot | Gem/Enchant |
|---|---|
| Gems | 1x Indecipherable Eversong Diamond This meta gem gives more main stat than the crit effect one this expansion. Fill the rest of your gems with whatever sims highest in Top Gear |
| Weapon | Acuity of the Ren'dorei |
| Helmet | Empowered Hex of Leeching |
| Shoulder | Silvermoon's Mending |
| Chest | Mark of the Worldsoul |
| Legs | Forest Hunter's Armor Kit |
| Boots | Shaladrassil's Roots |
| Ring | Eyes of the Eagle |
Crafting
Crafting Order:
Firstly, you can craft a veteran piece gear without using a spark, and place an embellishment on it. I'd recommend that you craft 246 Bracers with Arcanoweave Lining.
With your sparks:
- Aln'hara Pikestaff (or any crafted 2h agi weapon) with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt. If you already have a myth track weapon, you can skip this.
- Sim the best slots for your gear using Arcanoweave Lining
- An alternative, if the best slot for your gear is to craft a ring, is Loa Worshiper's Band. This ring is virtually identical damage wise to Arcanoweave Lining which, notably, cannot be crafted on rings.
If you're a mythic raider, you can choose to gamble on acquiring a myth track weapon early (2h polearm drops from 2nd boss: Inescapable Reach), and instead upgrade a hero track weapon to 6/6 for now. This is more efficient crest wise in the long run, but can lead to slower progression by missing out on the early power boost if your gamble fails.
Endgame ideal is on Wrists + Cloak/Loa Worshipers Band, but you should try to get your item level as high as you can in all slots.
Trinkets
These trinket lists are in rough estimated order of strength, assuming the highest item level version of the items. This will likely change with tuning. Delve trinkets are currently missing.
For use in Raid:
| Tier | Trinket | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| S Tier | Algethar's Puzzle Box | 2 min on-use trinket. Cast right before you use Berserk/Tiger's Fury |
| A Tier | Radiant/Umbral Plume | Usually want to see this to Radiant |
| Gaze of the Alnseer | ||
| B Tier | Ranger-Captain's Iridescent Insignia | Best-in-Slot in pure 2t and 2t only. |
| Emberwing Feather | This is much worse if you already have another on use like Algethar's Puzzle Box | |
| Light Company Guidon | Pair with Berserk. This is much worse if you already have another on use like Algethar's Puzzle Box | |
| C Tier | Heart of Wind | |
| Solarflare Prism | ||
| Undreamt God's Oozing Vestige | ||
| Kroluk's Warbanner |
CAUTION
Algethar's Puzzle Box is likely undersimming in dungeons for now. Fix is imminent.
For use in M+:
| Tier | Trinket | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| S Tier | Algethar's Puzzle Box | Cast time is a bit annoying, but use before berserk |
| Radiant/Umbral Plume | ||
| Gaze of the Alnseer | ||
| B Tier | Solarflare Prism | Best alternative passive trinket. |
| Heart of Wind | A decent stat stick | |
| Ranger-Captain's Iridescent Insignia | Excellent for low-target/single target in dungeons. Bad with increased targets. | |
| Undreamt God's Oozing Vestige | Fine in mid target counts, but its value is delayed towards the end of pulls, which isnt ideal. |
Trinket FAQ
Q: Should we be playing double on-use trinkets?
A: No, Feral will typically play just one on-use. Ranger-Captain's Iridescent Insignia is fine if you don't have better alternatives.
Q: Why are Radiant Plume and Umbral Plume listed together?
A: Because you can switch between them by activating its on-use effect and cannot wear both at the same time.
Q: Are any of the delve trinkets good?
A: Not really. Drum of Renewed Bonds is fine for its item level. You can treat it as a slightly better Heart of Wind, except its item level doesn't go up to Myth track. (hence why it is not in the trinket list)
Q: Why do damaging items deal more damage as Wildstalker?
A: The Wildstalker Hero Talent Vigorous Creepers also buffs the damage of non-druid effects.
Miscellaneous
What is snapshotting?
Snapshotting is when a damage-over-time (DOT) effect benefits from certain buffs based on how things were when it was applied, rather than dynamically adjusting to the current state. It takes a "snapshot" of those buffs whenever you apply the dot.
Note: You will not necessarily upgrade every snapshot.
Which bleeds snapshot which buffs?
| DoT | Tiger's Fury | Pouncing Strikes |
|---|---|---|
| Rake | ✅ | ✅ |
| Rip | ✅ | ❌ |
| Primal Wrath | ✅ | ❌ |
| Lunar Inspiration | ✅ | ❌ |
| Dreadful Wound | Only Upgrades | ❌ |
| Feral Frenzy | Each direct hit separately | ❌ |
TIP
Pouncing Strikes can be applied via Shadowmeld or Prowl
A dot will ideally be applied only when 30% or less of the prior dot remains. This triggers a mechanic known as “pandemic,” which is common to most damage over time spells.
What is “pandemic range?”
This term refers to a DoT mechanic in WoW. The baseline duration of a DoT can be extended by up to 30% if a target is already affected by that DoT. Due to the 30% cap on extension, DoTs generally shouldn't be refreshed too early, as potential ticks will be lost. The ideal window of time to refresh a DoT is known as its “pandemic range.”
Let’s use an example. Consider a 10 second DoT:
- Refresh with 1s remaining: the new DoT will be 11s long (10s baseline duration + 1s from prior DoT)
- Refresh with 3s remaining: the new DoT will be 13s long (10s baseline duration + 3s from prior DoT)
- Refresh with 8s remaining: the new DoT will still be 13s long (10s baseline + up to 30% from prior DoT)
It is therefore most efficient to wait until 70% or more of your bleed has ticked to refresh its DoT.
Fun trivia: the name “pandemic” derives from an old warlock passive that was eventually integrated as a baseline feature of damage over time spells.
What is “clipping?”
Clipping refers to refreshing a dot prior to its pandemic window.
Macros
Here, we provide a list of helpful macros. These macros are not required, but may be of use to you. Customize them as you see fit.
Cast Ursol's Vortex at your cursor location (@cursor macro):
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Ursol's Vortex
Use your trinket(s) and/or weapon at the same time as an ability:
Some trinkets and weapons should be used with a major cooldown. A lot of players will bind these items with Berserk.
- 13 is the top trinket slot
- 14 is the bottom trinket slot
- 16 is your weapon slot
If you would like to use all three items with Berserk, use this macro:
#showtooltip
/use 13
/use 14
/use 16
/cast Berserk
This macro may be modified. For example, the macro below only uses the 2nd trinket with Berserk:
#showtooltip
/use 14
/cast Berserk
Shadowmeld into Rake
Need to press twice for it to work. If you press it once, it will only Shadowmeld (which you will want to do sometimes)
#showtooltip
/castsequence [nostealth] reset=5 Shadowmeld, Rake
Cast Entangling Roots on your mouseover target:
This macro casts Entangling Roots on your mouseover target. If your mouse is not hovering over a target, the macro instead casts Entangling Roots on your current target.
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover, harm, nodead] [] Entangling Roots
Dispel/Soothe on the same bind:
This is the classic help/harm macro, but using mouseovers as well.
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover, harm, nodead] Soothe; [@mouseover, help, nodead] Remove Corruption; [harm, nodead] Soothe; Remove Corruption
Skull Bash your Focus target:
This macro casts Skull Bash on your focus target. If you have not set a focus target, the macro instead casts Skull Bash on your current target.
We recommend creating a keybind that will assign a target as your focus with one click. This option can be found in the game's keybind settings.
#showtooltip
/cast [@focus, harm, nodead] [] skull bash
Rebirth/Motw in one button:
This macro casts Rebirth on your current friendly but dead mouseover target. If your ally is alive, the macro instead casts Mark of the Wild.
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover, help, dead] Rebirth; Mark of the Wild
Why does my mouseover macro not work?
You probably have it bound to a mouse button, which doesn't allow mouseover macros by default. To fix this, you can use an addon like Clicked, or just map the mouse-button to a different key. Backtick (`)/Tilde (~) can also have this issue. If you don't have it bound to a mouse-button and it still doesn't work, then there is likely an issue with the macro itself. In this case, it's almost always the ommission of help, harm or exists in the brackets containing mouseover.
Useful WeakAura(s) and Addons
See here for a list of Addons that work/will work for Midnight. This section will get updated once options become more stable.











