feral druid AoE DPS is in a bad position right now leaving us very low priority in dungeon pugs and making the class feel bad to play in general outside of single target fighting. everyone wants me to be bomkin.
this is because of omen of clarity proc rate in cat form. more specifically its synergy with cat swipe. hitting multiple targets with swipe should increase the proc chance of omen of clarity clearcasting, however, it does not. it seems to work this way with bear swipe but not cat. tranquility and hurricane do function this way aswell. the more targets these spells affects, the higher the proc chance. for example if I’m hitting 8+ enemies with cat swipe I would expect to see a clearcasting proc atleast every other swipe. but you can be on your 10th swipe and still not achieve a clearcast.
feels like they are butchering kitty a little bit. we can’t even fish with faerie fire anymore. i’ve taken to fishing with barkskin and nature’s grasp (which is on a gcd) and it feels terrible.
feral can only moderately compete with other classes if they use berserk at max energy just so they can cast swipe 8 times without being c*ckblocked.
The talent says “Each of the druid’s damage spells, healing spells, and auto-attacks has a chance of causing the caster to enter a clearcasting state…”
Even if you are using swipe on 20 targets, you are still only auto-attacking one. So the talents is working as intended, and what you are suggesting sounds very OP. Druids dont need to be the best at every single thing in the game.
Omen is still a proc chance only. Sometimes u get lucky, sometimes you don’t. I had situation when it procced 3 times in a row while cat swiping like there’s no tomorrow.
The reason it “feels better” in Bear Form is because Bear Form has a different proc scalar due to severely less base attack speed. Naturally the scalar for cats is significantly less due to baseline 1 APS while bear sits at 2.5
Yes because Teleport: Moonglade is a spell and I’m pretty sure changing Talents via Dualspec is also coded as a “spell”. Therefore working as intended (although weird, I agree)
Feral is fine. No buffs or nerfs needed. In all my ~50 heroics I never got beat by any dps except warlock (Seed spam and busted low gear demo scaling in dungeons) in both single target and overall dungeon dps.
Don’t fix what’s not broken. Phase 1 is the weakest for Feral so quit screaming for buffs, it’ll all turn out fine.
Feral is fine, Omen Of Clarity is working as intended. Blizzard already tuned Omen Of Clarity on beta, there’s no need to change anything. What do you want ? Infinite energy ? Swipe is not the best AOE in the game but it’s decent, no buff needed. We all know that Feral is energy starved in WOTLK, it’s not a news.
Feral has good single target and bursty AoE, that’s all. Exactly like it was in the past. If you want perma cleave as melee, reroll DK or Warrior.
Flowershifting (forcing OOC proc) was a private server thing. it’s not gonna happen in WOTLK Classic and dev already said that on public bug repository.
I’m not talking about Heroics, I’m talking about the upcoming Heroic +
Once you start increasing the health of dungeon mobs, gaps will start to show themselves, believe me.
Do I think Feral needs some gargantuan buff? Definitely not. However, I think that slight tuning on this particular ability does make sense.
We’ll see. You might end up being right, but I firmly believe that certain class balance issues, like this one, will be exacerbated once there is content that highlights a particular deficiency.
In Phase 1 Feral is literally B-Tier and performing fine for what they are placed in. Heroic+ won’t come before Ulduar in which Feral becomes >mathematically< (pay very close attention to what that word actually entails) the best Spec for Phase 2 (yes across ALL classes) due to the insane T8 2p and increasingly higher gear drops with Armor Penetration.
I’m playing boomy in phase 1 but TBH I like feral a lot more but I simply can’t decide what to main.
I spent thousands of gold to gear my boomy and it does insane damage. Although boomy is fun it’s also no challenge. The rotation is fun but too easy. Feral seems more interesting and I regret not going Cat tbh.