Although the S3 Set brings some interesting or new interactions, it limits the talent choices, especially in M+. I think the S1 set with higher gear will be by far the strongest of all set options.
With all due respect to every developper that’s hard working on feral , but i genuinely think you are no where close to doing a good job in terms of making the spec viable in any way possible , especially with the set bonuses and the low rewarding DMG for such high effort.
S3 set is cool, but after playing it most recently it’d be nice to have a change - S2 was awful, so S1 would be nice to go back to for a bit - #VoteFeralS1
Though honestly I’m a bit disappointed we can’t have access to all of them on the vendor and choose which we want for the content
If I could, I would vote no tier set at all, and rather fix the druid class tree that is still stuck in alpha.
Also, fix Feral playstyle / talents, for basically everything:
Bleeds are too weak.
Berserk is a bit too long CD + too many talents.
You shouldn’t have to spec EITHER ST or AoE, it should be about playstyle.
Primal Wrath interfering with Rip sucks.
Charges on Brutal Slash sucks.
Spec is still suffering from nerfs from SL + S1and is bullied in arena (weak defensively).
All other melee specs have received mobility / gap closers etc, leaving Feral kit outdated.
Ramp time for bleeds is too heavy.
A lot of lost value for mobs dying with bleeds on them.
At this point I’m practically not playing retail (SoD entertains for now).
I decide to not play with any of the Druid capstone talents since they are so awful / expensive to reach.
I spec Guardian for world content, because AoE and survivability is just so much more comfortable.
I don’t play M+ because you either give up AoE or ST and it is not enjoyable at all when you can’t compete with DH, WW etc.
The only content that is enjoyable as Feral, is playing 2v2 with a healer and cycloning people (with tier set + Wild Attunement).
Unlikely anything will change, but we have SoD phase 2 on 8th of Feb anyway. You can expect participation for Ferals to continue to be low in retail.
I appreciate blizzard trying to give us a say in what we’re going to use in season 4 but really you should have just replaced the the tier set drops with a charge in the catalyst so that we could use it to get any one of the 3 previous tier sets but here we are hitting feral frenzy every 30 secs for another season just so we can still do less damage than most other classes. Seems to me like this set caters for pvp just like every one of our class updates this season.
Happy to play the season 3 tier set again as it’s better than season 2s but needs to be longer than 8 seconds of a buff, you get like 2 spenders off in that time maybe 3 if you get lucky with a free bite but a pretty boring tier set that doesn’t add much excitement to the class unfortunately, definitely would prefer set 1 as i can’t see how having more crits and a constant 6% + 10% bleed buff isn’t better than 1 or 2 spenders getting 20% every 30sec (providing you don’t save feral frenzy as it cooled down towards the end of a pack) but that’s just my opinion.
Also brutal slash needs to have its cool reduced and actually work with omen of clarity I don’t care about the 15% buff it does just make it not need a charge. genuinely ridiculous that I have omen proc and can’t use it on brutal slash because I have to wait 7 seconds which renders the 15% useless anyway because I’ll hit shred or thrash to save the extra energy cost.
Its even worse that the whole class is based on aoe and we have one aoe move (that’s not finisher) that has a lengthy cool down and isn’t affected by procs, thrash doesn’t count because it might as well not do damage for how little it does and should work like it does in bear form where it stacks and that way it would give the high energy cost some kind of pay off other than being another bleed for bites to be affected by.
Not sure if I’m exactly right on my last point but I’ll say it anyway, tear open wounds needs to use all of the 4 seconds it consumes and not 50% this could help sort some of the damage problems we’re having alongside making double clawed rake hit a target not already affected by rake if ones available as I’ve seen it sometimes hit the same target twice which doesn’t help spread bleeds on large packs and to me that’s not how that talent should work.
In the way of survivability I think we need ours move set more like paladins, maybe have barkskin have a big shield baked into the talent (spending a talent point for 50-60k isn’t enough) but still just reduces damage and regrowth should heal more based on missing heath. I’ve been out healed by some other classes leech talents which is crazy. I can’t see why you should have to go into bear form and loose all dps output just to not die when most dps are topping the meters and passively out healing you.
Feel free to comment and tell me where I’m wrong but I don’t take it to serious, i would like the class that got me into the game a year ago be properly compensated in the damage department for how hard the spec is to play.
blizzard can you do something about mattted fur , instead of absorbing 50k on 800k hp pool make it absorb 20% bassed on your hp , survival instinct could be 12 seconds long since its a 3min cd, you could also bake verdant heart to be baseline for barkskin so you get 20% healing received when bark is up, i think that itself would fix alot of survivability problems feral is facing atm , also there are so many 2/2 nodes on our tree like well honed instinct that could easily be 1/1 node and max rank since well honed is not as overpowered as it was back in shadowlands , Rampat Ferocity cap nerf should be reverted like it was in season one so we got aoe and ST , aoe suffers alot in higher keys , im top 21 Feral in EU atm in mythic plus did +26 keystones and feral needs to be looked into.
Why is predatory swiftness a talent node in Feral Tree , should be baseline for feral no mater what , having 3 different talents to build berserk is just awfull instead of getting rid of those 3 nodes and baking it into a single node would give us even more freedom to pick other talents , convoke still casts rejuvination and regrowth in cat form while standing in melee range of the mobs , Feral is screaming for defensive cooldown buffs and aoe buffs and i hope developers will read my feedback on the spec because we need it
Think yourself as Feral developer team member or team leader? Can compare to BMW car side indicator installer. Useless. This spec has always been S h i t and will always be s h i t