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Feral Druid, like many other specs, got a ton of changes going into Midnight; mostly with the goal of simplifying the spec into its core components, and removing spells or talents that require information that is impossible to track directly.

This guide is currently updated for Prepatch, but beware that most of these are educated guesses based on prior prepatches and beta testing. 'Proper' theorycrafting won't be complete until somewhere in between Midnight expansion launch and the start of season 1.

Happy Hunting, see you in Midnight.

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:

1. Prowl
2. Rake from stealth.

Select which talents you have to filter the priority list:

Feral Frenzy

Convoke the Spirits

Incarnation

Lunar Inspiration

Chomp

Apex Predator's Craving

Sudden Ambush

Shadowmeld

Single Target Priority List:

Multi Target

Select which talents you have to filter the priority list:

Druid of the Claw

Wildstalker

Double Clawed Rake

Feral Frenzy

Convoke the Spirits

Incarnation

Lunar Inspiration

Apex Predator's Craving

Rampant Ferocity

Sudden Ambush

Shadowmeld

Primal Wrath

AoE priority list (2+ targets):

Talents

Class Talent Explanations

This section will be updated before the beginning of Midnight Season 1. Check back later.

Raid Talents

This section will get updated before Midnight raids release. Check back later. For some solid guesses on prepatch, see the Generic Raid Build Archetypes.

Generic Raid Build Archetypes

WS Pure-ST Build:

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WS Hybrid ST-AOE:

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DOTC Pure-ST Build:

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DOTC Hybrid ST-AOE:

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DOTC AOE:

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Mess around with stuff how you please, these are just sample guesses for prepatch. Things will inevitably change.

Dungeon Talents

This section will get fleshed out before Midnight Season 1 begins, Check back in March. For now, here are a couple builds you can play. I suspect Druid of the Claw will still be the superior option. Frantic Frenzy is very good.

DOTC 1:

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DOTC 2:

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Consumables

Type	Consumable
DPS Potion	Tempered Potion
Healing Potion	Invigorating Healing Potion is the best health potion available.
Food	Beledar's Bounty or any other secondary stat food.
Flask	Flask of Alchemical Chaos
Oil/Stone	Algari Mana Oil
Augment Rune	Crystallized Augment Rune

Gearing

Stat Priority

Gems and Enchants

Slot	Gem/Enchant
Gems	1x Elusive Blasphemite or Culminating Blasphemite and a mixture of the other gems based on your sims. It is not worth slotting in a Stamina gem. Personally don't think Elusive Blasphemite is necessary as a Feral Druid, given that we already have a lot of speed, but it would be a disservice to not mention it.
Weapon	Any of the secondary-stat weapon enchants; for example: Stonebound Artistry.
Chest	Crystalline Radiance
Cloak	Chant of Winged Grace
Legs	Stormbound Armor Kit
Wrist	Chant of Armored Avoidance
Boots	Defender's March or Scout's March
Ring	Any of the Radiant Secondaries, for example: Radiant Critical Strike

Crafting

Crafting Order:

• Charged Halberd (or any crafted 2h agi weapon) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension. If you already have a myth track weapon, you can skip this.
• Sim the best slot for your gear using Writhing Armor Banding (if you have weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension) or Dawnthread Lining/Duskthread Lining if you do not.
• Can continue doing the above. Ever since the crest requirement for crafted gear got nerfed this route is equally efficient in that regard.

Ideal is on Wrists and Belt, 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. Prepatch and scaling is always weird though, so this may be off.

On-use trinket ranking

1. Araz's Ritual Forge
2. Unyielding Netherprism
3. Signet of the Priory
4. Lily of the Eternal Weave
5. Cursed Stone Idol

For use in Raid:

Tier	Trinket	Notes
S Tier	Araz's Ritual Forge	2 min on-use trinket. Macro to berserk, so strong that even a lower item level version of this can be better than your other options.
A Tier	Astral Antenna	Passive crit proc. Sometimes you can't get full benefit, reducing its value a bit. Can sim with higher miss chance in Raidbots options.
B Tier	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker	Cyclical Crit proc.
C Tier	Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt	Damage proc trinket + execute
	Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj	Passive stat proc.
	Ara'kara Sacbrood	A little bit worse for DOTC, but still a solid passive trinket.
	So'leah's Secret Technique	True stat stick, sim default is mastery. Higher if you factor in ally buff.

For use in Mythic+:

Tier	Trinket	Notes
S Tier	Unyielding Netherpism	Macro to Berserk
A Tier	Astral Antenna
B Tier	Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj
	So'leah's Secret Technique	Sim which secondary is best, but odds are its mastery. Arguably should be rated higher for consistency + ally benefit.
	Cursed Stone Idol	As a 2nd on-use. Particularly with Unyielding Netherprism. Send on cooldown as long as it wont interrupt your main use. Ideally with 5+ targets.
	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker
	Ara'kara Sacbrood

Trinket FAQ

Q: Should we be playing double on-use trinkets?

A: No, Feral will typically play just one on-use

Q: How many buffs does Signet of the Priory assume?

A: None. The increase from other people having it is pretty small though.

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	❌

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

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.

Feral Druid Abbreviations

Shortcut	Name	Shortcut	Name
tf	Tiger's Fury	omen/cc	Omen of Clarity
coiled	Coiled to Spring	pw	Primal Wrath
mc	Merciless Claws	tc	Thrashing Claws (can also be theorycraft)
pred	Predator	DCR	Double-Clawed Rake
TE	Tireless Energy	SA	Sudden Ambush
SI	Survival Instincts	RF	Usually Rampant Ferocity (sometimes its Raging Fury)
IW	Infected Wounds	LI	Lunar Inspiration
PS	Predatory Swiftness	zerk	Berserk, sometimes Incarnation: Avatar of Ashamane
incarn	Incarnation: Avatar of Ashamane, sometimes Berserk	TFB	Taste for Blood
TT	Tiger's Tenacity	Lion	Berserk: Heart of the Lion
MOC	Moment of Clarity	Frenzy(band)	Berserk: Frenzy
BRS	Brutal Slash	CI	Carnivorous Instinct
FM	Frantic Momentum	SJ	Saber Jaws
Convoke	Convoke the Spirits	HOTW	Heart of the Wild
SOTF	Soul of the Forest	R&T/Tear	Rip and Tear
VR	Veinripper	FF	Feral Frenzy Surrender
AG incarn	Ashamane's Guidance for Incarnation: Avatar of Ashamane	AG	Usually refers to AG incarn
1min voke	Ashamane's Guidance for Convoke the Spirits	Circle	Circle of Life and Death
Apex	Apex Predator's Craving	DOTC	Druid of the Claw Hero Talent
WS	Wildstalker Hero Talent, rarely Wild Slashes	RA	Ruthless Aggression
KS	Killing Strikes	FR	Frenzied Regeneration
rejuv	Rejuvenation	owl	Moonkin Form
dispel/decurse	Remove Corruption	IF	Ironfur
WC	Wild Charge	Clone	Cyclone
Vortex	Ursol's Vortex	Mass Root	Mass Entanglement
Roar	Stampeding Roar	WHI	Well-Honed Instincts
vate	Innervate	incap	Incapacitating Roar
bash	Mighty Bash, sometimes Skull Bash	vigor	Ursine Vigor
1min roar	Improved Stampeding Roar	inspiration	Lycara's Inspiration
Roots	Entangling Roots	brez/cr/br	Rebirth
Bark	Barkskin	cp	combo points