Feral druids need massive changes

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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It is nice to see buffs, but they are far too few. You are throwing a band aid to a spec with a ruptured aorta - it is not nearly enough.

Feral is bad at everything atm. It feels TERRIBLE to play, from questing to raiding, and especially in PvP.

Tanking is very lackluster. Dps is mediocre to bad, despite having the most complex rotation and positional requirements in the game. And ZERO aoe, how does feral have ZERO aoe and a meme spec like melee hunter has carve? I can’t for the life of me fathom why Carve exists, explosive trap in combat exists, but ferals dont have Swipe(Cat) yet? Why?! I want to scream.

PvP is easily the worst though - it is BEYOND bad.
I could write a dissertation on how bad it is, but lets just list whats needed minimum:

  • Skull bash baseline, not a rune. Casters have either much more tankiness(meta locks, dispersion, regeneration) and/or much, much more instant cast damage now. And any hard cast is a literal death sentence, having skull bash baseline is complete fair. And it should NOT share a CD with feral charge, what?! Remove the charge part of it and make it just an interrupt if you have mobility concerns.

  • Able to use items in forms. Classic has SO many on use items, potions, engineering gadgets that are a MASSIVE part of the power in the game. Being swapped out of form wasting an entire GCD+25% of my mana pool is a joke.

  • We need feral charge cat. Rogues have shadowstrike AND shadowstep, warriors have warbringer, and casters have tons of instant damage. Why cant ferals have charge in cat? You cant get to anyone in prowl, it is SO slow.

  • Pounce needs to NOT require being behind the target. And it needs to stun 3 sec baseline, 4 sec talented.

  • Energy and rage needs to persist through shapeshifting.

  • Barkskin needs to be WOTLK version baseline. We have ZERO defensives.

  • Shapeshifting and healing ooms a feral EXTREMELY fast at 40. We need help RIGHT now to unlock any PvP potential. Cast cat form once, bear form once, regrowth once and a moonfire then cat form a 2nd time and you’re oom. Add an STV ring that reduces shapeshifting cost of cat/bear by 30%+ and doesnt work after lvl 59.

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at least should Cat make some Aoe like Rogues

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In later addons, all hybrids had two things: instant casts and scaling of spell damage based on attack power. In SOD, shamans were given instant casts, paladins were given AP scaling, and ferals were given none of this.
Plus the ability to somehow slow down the target would be a great addition.

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You are right.

We have no slow, Pounce is awful at 3 seconds for 50 energy AND requires being behind the target. Rogues have shadowstep, shadowstrike, a ranged slow AND ranged kidney shot.
We dont have maim, cyclone, skull bash or even feral charge cat. It is unbelievable, lmao.

Feral being viable in PVP/open world grinding has always hinged on cat form not being too squishy. We need survivability. Barkskin/less dmg taken in stuns, increased healing taken in cat, SP from attack power, predatory swiftness heal procs, lotp heal procs… I mean something. Anything. Feral started off REALLY bad in vanilla and we just havent gotten close to what we need. And classes like rogue, mage, so and locks gets insane new stuff Meanwhile. Its a joke.

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Ferals are fine they got tanking buffs that should have been in the game since phase 1 & 4 secs on rip. Amazing changes gz Blizz throw the dog a bone :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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