Ha, so I am not the only one doing that 
I played a DH for the start of 8.3 but went back to my Feral again. DH is really cool but wasnāt for me. Tried DK and Hunter before but also returned to Druid. Now I am levelling a Rogueā¦ letās see what happens.
Had the same problem here!
Just boosted Hunter after failing on my Rogue, Paladin, Shaman, DK, Warrior, Mage, DH and Warlockā¦ And came back to feral again. Maybe hunter will do the job now.
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BM is now quite fun to play. - Survival was my second choice of alt till it turned melee; Black arrow/Explosive shot was great fun.
Make it happen Blizzard
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i played as a feral druid for a long time but it doesnāt feel right not having survival instinct, at least if they are going to remove it and replace it with barkskin āwhich ignores spell push backā let us heal within the cat form, what a weird change they did to the feral druidā¦
Iām gonna be honest. I used my free 120 boost on feral as I am a player who played pretty much all classes and all specs since vanilla. I never really touched on feral or get the hang of it. But now I tried it a bit, just in arena but Iām having so much fun currently. There is something to feral, a bit of a underdog spec if you will.
I decided to read up on the forums, looking how ppl feel about current and Shadowlands Feral but reading and scrolling through this forum it looks very concerning.
You guys really think feral is gonna be that bad and you think we shouldnāt even try it out in SL? Youāre not gonna play feral when the xpack is going to hit?
It really depends what you want to do. Most content you can do as a Feral, you will just be less useful than, say, a DH. If you can live with that (and the fact that PUGs for M+ will likely kick you after seeing you are not balance), then go ahead and play Feral.
I tried switching mains a couple of times but, despite all the issues, always end up playing my Druid again.
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Haha itās a nice thing you come back to the class you like. At the end thatās what itās all about.
Iām personally more of a PvP person but ofc we get forced to do some PvE for gear. I dont mind doing a bit less dmg or get kicked or whatever. Iāll make my own group and form my own group of friends to play with.
I might actually main feral in SL as itās a breath of fresh air and Iām always more appealed to the classes that perform slightly less. Like I played balanced in vanilla and tbc.
Iām also that person that dont use that RIO the little rebel I am. Feel free to kick me if you think Iāll perform less because of my spec. Iām sure Iāll out dmg someone with the right spec (:
I want to want to play my feral, but atm it cant contend with DH. Damage-wise and utility-wise - just no contest. Iām adamant in trying to push changes to feral for the better so i can main it in SL, but so far its not going to planā¦
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As a feral main since vanilla, iām with you on this boatā¦
All i want is Blizzard fixing feral once and for all, but right now iāve swapped to my DH, and the difference is astonishing!
DH has everything feral has and moreā¦ i mean heal a ton on my own, do loads of damage, i have a ton of utility for the group/raid, a buckload of AOEā¦
When i play my DH iām always thinking āwhatās not to like about this classā¦ā, meanwhile playing as a feral youāre severely punished if you missclick 1 spell on your rotationā¦ -.-
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I think the main problem is not necessarily the overall damage. Here, Feral and DH arenāt too far away, Iād say. But (aside from the much better utility) DH has burst, massive damage on demand over short windows, which Feral doesnāt have. If there is a particularly dangerous mob that needs to go quickly, this is very useful. So in a sense, not all damage is equalā¦
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But that burst window is for 8 seconds every 30 seconds. where as Feral has ramp up time, which is why iāve suggested that AOE needs to be instant damage while ST needs to remain bleed focused - then we can start to compete.
we can easily outdps demon hunter in anything but burst damage no so i agree.
to fix that problem make soul of the forest baseline with incarnation and give incarn like 20% damage on top increase from all abilites even tho it already increases our dmg alot so it would deal like stealth ability but still i want incarn to be that burst button and we can use it for either āvanishā or āBurstā so you can chose.
savage roar would work on energy regeneration and 30% crit increase from all sources .
Our AoE is fine the problem is single target and bleed damage with burst feral has no burst windows anymore or utility thats why we lack behind other specs.
All utility feral had was taken away from us in Legion , i hated claws of shivarah but cyclone while cat form was the best or cast roots or self heal was pretty decent .
MoP and WoD was amazing for feral even tho i hated wod but not as much i hate bfa
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I think feral was in a good place in WoD just the game wasnt.
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We just need utility ,burst and bleed buff and we are good
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I would even be willing to live with our āgood sustained damageā and accept not having as much burst as other classes if they fix the other issues. As long as Berserk feels at least somewhat meaningfulā¦
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yup thats my point berserk should get something on top like dmg increase
Getting picked for M+ 0/10 times because no Burst on trash
Either Crit increase or Damage increase with Shorter CD to make up for the lack of Burst.
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im doing +22s and that just hit me in the feels really hard , cause even with high rio i still sit for 2 days to get into 1 key and then roll the dice the group is not stupid
tbf, I mainly do keys with guildies for this reason - Donāt get picked and if you do thereās a high chance that theyāre stupid. - Plus thereās no, āhey man, you need that loot? its a 120% upgrade for meā - āYea i need it for xmog.ā āā¦greatā
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