Hi guys, you Might remember me from the “What do you want to see post” (from a few weeks ago)
I’ve been working hard on a feral druid tree/rework 2 weeks ago.
I had some irl issues last week and couldn’t finish my work, but apparently the feedback started to pile up last week and I managed to get the first “final” (its not gonna be the final version, but its the first version I’ve done after getting a lot of feedback) version of my tree.
Introduction: My design philosophy for feral druid
First of all, I want to go over some notes from making this tree, just to make sure some of my decisions are clear
- The “Bleeds vs direct damage” argument is weird. Feral druid (in my opinion) should be a mix of both playstyles. that doesn’t mean specific builds wouldn’t rewards direct damage (Bites) more then bleeds and vice versa
- Convoke is a badly designed ability.
I removed it in this version, because from what I heard Convoke was mostly taken to “grant us a low-cooldown burst damage tool”. I’ve filled that gap with the changes to Tiger’s fury. - Feral should be able to cast rebirth/roars and innervate in cat form
- sabretooth removed, you’ve already complained enough about this talent. I thought about adding back the “refresh if the target is under 25% hp”, but wasn’t sure about that one
- Brutal Slash was removed
- bloodtalons removed (cycle of nature is pretty close to old bloodtalons, which make sense with the new changes to swiftness). casting swipe to get a dps increase in single target shouldn’t be a thing.
- This tree is very experimental. there’s an entire section in the tree related to magic damage to remove/reduce owlweaving by making it catweaving (with proper support)
Written tree (warning: its very long)
I cant link a picture to the tree cause I dont have permissions 
I’ll link one when I find a way to.
Basline changes
- Infected Wounds - Rake causes an Infected Wound in the target, reducing the target’s movement speed by 50% for 12 sec
- Improved Prowl - While stealthed, empower your Rake and Shred, increasing their damage by 60% and granting them an additional effect:
Rake: also stun the target for 4 sec
Shred: has Double the chance to critically strike and grants an additional combo point - Survival Instincts - Reduces all damage you take by 50% for 6 sec
- Berserk cooldown reduced to 2min and duration reduced to 15sec
- Feline Adept includes Incapacitating Roar, Stampeding Roar and Innervate
Row 1
- Feral frenzy - Unleash a furious frenzy, clawing your target 5 times dealing Physical damage and additional Bleed damage over 10 sec.
Restores 30 energy and grants Tiger’s fury for 10sec
(Tiger’s fury unchanged, 15% damage increase)
Reasons behind this change
One of the main complains I got was that Feral is lacking a small cd damaging ability (like Touch of the magi, eye beam, Comet Storm etc).
People said they liked Convoke because it kinda filled that gap, it gave a good damaging short cooldown ability. Feral frenzy can fill that gap instead of convoke
Row 2
- Omen of Clarity - Your auto attacks have a chance to cause a Clearcasting state, making your next Shred, Thrash, or Swipe cost no Energy and deal 15% increased damage
Row 3
- Predatory Swiftness - Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per combo point to make your next Regrowth, Entangling Roots or Rebirth instant, free, and castable in all forms.
- Moment of Clarity - Omen of Clarity now triggers 50% more often and can accumulate an additional charge
- Hunger for blood - Your combo point generating abilities deal 20% increased damage against targets affected by your bleeds
Row 4
- Soul of The Forest - Your finishing moves grant 5 Energy per combo point
Choice Node: Improved Survival Instincts or Protection of Ashamane
- Improved Survival Instincts - Survival Instincts gains an additional charge
- Protection of Ashamane - When you shapeshift out of Cat Form, you gain 100% increased dodge chance and armor for 5 sec or until you shapeshift back into Cat Form. Can only occur once every 45 sec.
- Savage Roar - Finishing move that increases damage by 15% and energy regeneration rate by 10% while in Cat Form. Lasts longer per combo point
- Pouncing Strikes - While in cat form, increase the range of your abilities by 5 yards.
Does not stack with similar effects - Cat-Eye Curio - Clearcast abilities generate 30% of their Energy cost
Row 5 (require 8pts+)
- Improved Tiger’s Fury (2pts talent) - Increases damage bonus of Tiger’s fury by 3% (5%) Tiger’s Fury now restores 2 (4) energy every 2 seconds
- Incessant Hunter - When your Bleeds deal damage, they have a 15% chance to grant 6 Energy.
Choice Node: Twisted Claws or Scent of Blood
- Twisted Claws - Thrash’s direct damage increase your agility by 2% for 12 sec, stacks up to 5 times
- Scent of Blood - Each enemy hit by Thrash reduces the cost of Swipe by 3 Energy and increases its damage by 2% for the next 6 sec
- Primal Frenzy - When your Bleeds critically strike, they have a 30% chance to Increase the duration of your active Savage roar by 4 sec and trigger Primal Fury
- Taste For Blood - Ferocious Bite and Maim deals 5% increased damage for each of your Bleeds on the target.
Row 6
- Lunar Inspiration - Moonfire is usable in Cat Form, costs 30 energy, and generates 1 combo points. In addition, Your moonfire is now considered a bleed effect.
- Nature’s Wrath - Feral Frenzy now deals Nature damage instead of Physical damage
Choice Node: Ashamane’s Bite or Shadow Thrash
- Ashamane’s Bite - Your combo point generating abilities against targets bleeding from your Rip have a 10% chance to awaken the Spirit of Ashamane
The Spirit applies a Shadowy duplicate of that Rip on the target with the duration and remaining damage of your rip.- Shadow Thrash - Thrash has a 25% chance to release part of Ashamane’s soul, causing all nearby enemies to suffer Shadow damage over 2 sec.
- Leader of The Pack - While in Cat Form, you increase the critical chance and speed of raid members within 40 yards by 2%
When affected allies critically strike with a direct attack, they heal themselves for 5% of their maximum health and restore 3% of their maximum mana. This effect cannot occur more than once every 8 sec. - Primal Wrath - Finishing move that deals instant damage and applies Rip to all enemies within 8 yards. Lasts longer per combo point.
- Predator (2pts talent) - Feral Frenzy grants Tiger’s Fury for 3(5) additional seconds.
When a target dies with one of your Bleed effects active, restore 10(20) energy and grant you Tiger’s fury for 3(5) sec. - Iron Jaws - Ferocious Bite has a 8% chance per combo point to increase the damage of your next Maim by 500%
Row 7
- Arcane Infection - Your Thrash is infused with arcane magic, causing it’s Periodic damage to also deals the periodic damage of moonfire.
- Improved Predatory Swiftness, check note
note -Improved Predatory Swiftness
- 1 point: Predatory Swiftness now stacks up to 2 times, and empowers your casted spells:
- 2 points: Predatory Swiftness now stacks up to 2 times, and empowers your casted spells:
Regrowth: Heals you for 50% when used on allies
Entangling Roots: Your Bleed damage will no longer cancel Entangling Roots early.
Rebirth: Your target will Resurrect with at least 40% mana
Wrath: Deals 20% additional damage and cause auto attacks to deal additional nature damage for 20 sec
- Circle of Life and Death - Your damage over time effects deal their damage in 25% less time, and your healing over time effects in 15% less time.
- Berserk Relentlessness - Go berserk for 15 sec, giving finishing moves a 20% chance per combo point spent to refund 2 combo point and reducing the energy cost of cat form abilities by 20%.
Passive: Combo-point generating abilities reduce the cooldown of Berserk by 0.3 sec. - Improved Shred - Increase the damage and critical strike chance of Shred by 15%.
Row 8 (require 20pts+)
- Cycle of Nature (2pts talent) - Consuming Predatory Swiftness increases the damage of your next (2) finishing moves by 20% and restores 10 (20) energy
Your finishing moves Increase your magic damage done by 5(10)% for 8 sec - Adaptive Swarm - Command a swarm that heals deals Shadow damage over 12 sec to a target and increases the effectiveness of your periodic effects on them by 25%.
Upon expiration, finds a new target, preferring to alternate between friend and foe up to 3 times. - Sickle of the Lion (2pts talent) check note
note - Sickle of the Lion
- 1 point: Entering Berserk causes you to leap to your target and strike all nearby enemies, dealing Bleed damage over 10 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
- 2 points: Entering Berserk causes you to leap to your target and strike all nearby enemies, dealing Bleed damage over 10 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
While Berserk isn’t active, your rake damage has a chance to grant you Berserk for 5 sec
- Rip and Tear - Feral frenzy cause your next Thrash to apply Rake and infected wounds to all targets hit
- Improved Wounds (2pts talent) - Shred Now apply an infected wound to your target
Infected wounds now increase the damage the target takes from your bleeds by 10% (20%)
Row 9
- Predator’s wrath - Wrath is usable in Cat Form, costs 40 energy and generates 1 combo points.
In addition, it may benefit from Predatory Swiftness.
Choice Node: Tiger’s Wrath or Improved Energy
- Tiger’s Wrath - Tiger’s Fury increases your critical strike change by 15%
- Improved Energy - Tiger’s Fury and Berserk increases your maximum energy is increased by 20
Choice Node: Incarnation: Avatar of Ashamane or Incarnation: Avatar of Goldrinn
- Avatar of Ashamane - Transform Berserk into Incarnation: Avatar of Ashamane
Incarnation: Avatar of Ashamane grants the benefits of Berserk, Cause your Rake and Shred to deal damage as though you were stealthed and increase the duration of berserk by 10 sec- Avatar of Goldrinn - Transform Berserk into Incarnation Avatar of Goldrinn Incarnation: Avatar of Goldrinn grants the benefits of Berserk, increases your haste by 10% and cause your combo point-generating abilities to bleed the target for an additional 150% of their damage over 8 sec.
- Improved Feral frenzy - Feral frenzy now cleaves to all targets near your main target, causing them to suffer 45% of the damage done and grants you 5 combo points.
Choice Node: Apex Predator’s Craving or King of The jungle
- Apex Predator’s Craving - Rip damage has a 4% chance to make your next Ferocious Bite free and deal the maximum damage.
- King of The jungle - For every enemy you have Rip active on, your damage done is increased by 4%, stacking up to 5 times
Row 10
Choice Node: Omen of Nature or Omen of Magic
- Omen of Nature - Your Omen of Clarity now cause your next Shred, Thrash or Swipe to deal nature damage instead of physical
In addition, your combo-point generating abilities now benefit from Predator’s Wrath passive damage.- Omen of Magic - Your Omen of Clarity cause your next Shred,Swipe or Thrash to deal the periodic damage of moonfire. In addition, every 30th hit of Moonfire’s periodic damage will call a Full moon on the target
- Starsurge (Cat form) - A ranged Finishing move that causes Arcane damage per combo point and cause you to deal 15% additional magic damage for 20 sec
cost 25 energy - Servant of the Wild Gods (check note)
Servant of the Wild Gods
Druids have improved their bonds with the Wild Gods, granting them the ability to shapeshift into their Aspects:
- Aspect of Shirvallah: Increase your magic damage and healing done by 10%, allow the use of all non-damaging Druid spells while shapeshifted and increase your maximum energy by 30.
- Aspect of Kimbul: Increase your damage done by 5%, cause your attacks to ignore 20% of the target’s armor and your ferocious bite cause your target to bleed for 25% of the damage done over 15sec, if this effect is reapplied, any remaining damage will be added to the new application.
- Aspect of Bethekk: Increase all periodic damage done by 15%, all energy gained by 10% and your direct damage Critical strikes on targets effected by your rip cause it to erupt, dealing 2 instances of its periodic damage.
Note: aspects cannot be changes while in combat, changing your “aspect” has a 5 sec cast Time.
changing an aspect will change your cat form (the cat form you shift into when using cat form)
- Bloodletter’s Frailty - Feral Frenzy also increases the damage you deal to afflicted targets by 20%.
- Draught of Deep Focus - When Rip is active on a single target, Increase the proc chance of Apex Predator’s Craving and the effect of King of The Jungle by 6%
What do you guys think? of course a lot of balancing/tuning needs to be done but do you think its a good way to go? I would like to hear your thoughts 