Tiger’s Fury costs 30 energy and only last 6 seconds. Is it worth using or should I forget about it?
It’s never really worth using.
Cat form has a 1.0 attack speed. At best it adds 60 damage total (over 6 hits) at rank 1 if you land every attack.
Claw does a lot more damage.
If you’re in stealth and about to ravage something, use it beforehand. That’s the sort of situation you want to use it in.
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Yah, that’s how I use it.
Activate it so that you’re back to full enegy when engaging while stull having a second or 2-3 on the buff.
Every bit helps I guess
Thanks guys that helps a lot.
It’s more complicated since it also adds damage to claw/shred.
In ideal situations (always waiting for 81+ energy to use skills), it can actually be a marginal dps gain.
That is, until you take combo points into consideration. So in the end… it’s close to never worth it. I would even argue that the "tiger fury before ravage) is more trouble than it’s worth.
It’s pretty easy to use for openers if you have an energy ticker addon (mine is one via Luna Unit Frames) so that you can time it properly. Without one it’s a bit of a hassle to use.
In theory you can use it during lulls in the fight, but it seems marginal and not worth the effort.
Of course it is, however you gotta be clever about it.
As far as my knowledge of the subject goes, you can activate this ability and then run to an enemy and your energy will have (almost entirely) regen’d and you still have time for a few damaging abilities, OR you can do the same but in stealth.
I’m not sure if it breaks stealth or not but either way you can use it and be or then go into stealth and ravage a target for a buffed hit etc.
So regardless, I wouldn’t use this mid combat unless there was some CC involved like maybe a rogue blinds or what have you, but it’s a good spell to buff your dps on the opener of a fight.
Sorry for off topic, but you wouldn’t know any other energy ticker addon for classic?
I use xperl and haven’t found any energy tickers sadly.
Might want to try Luna if nothing turns up.
There are ways how to get something out of it , but from leveling my druids I can say that using stealth and Tiger’s Fury, or just using it in advance is waste of time, it does not give that much to table to make it worth the clicks.
Even stealth itself is waste of time if you are talking about speed, there are some exceptions , but that is it.
Yeah, but it doesn’t add damage to bleeds so it’s not really worth using. Like you say, it’s much more damage to just use Claw and a 1-3 CP Rip.
I use the default frames, and I put SimpleEnergyBar over the default mana bar, then make it show in cat form only. Then use DruidMana for my mana bar to show under the energy bar in cat form and in the same default UI style.
It’s not a waste of time when you have Ravage and can crit an enemy for 40% of their hp before the fight even starts. Before that, I would agree.
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First of all not guaranteed to crit, second has larger chance to miss even landing hit which makes you waste allot of energy.
Second stealth means slow approach that needs to be landed on back of the enemy, which means slow moving till you get there , or jump stealth that might not be that difficult if you are killing mobs lower level then yourself , but will be hit and miss with mobs your level , or fail higher level.
When you miss, you’re refunded 75%(roughly) of the energy cost. Also, a non-crit is still 20% of an enemies health instantly gone at the start of the fight and less damage on you since it dies quicker.
You’ll realise how good it is to Ravage every mob once you actually level a druid. :^)
About the slowness of stealth, I do find using stealth puts me right at the 100 energy mark when chain killing mobs, so the slowness of it actually helps for mob grinding (in these cases I don’t bother with tigers fury though).
Only effective way to use it I’ve found is to use it while prowled, wait for your energy to regen to 100, should still have it for a couple seconds and get a little extra damage on your opener.
However, “effective” is a strong word, doesn’t make that much of a difference so you may as well just save time and go on without it.
Stealthing up to each and every enemy isn’t efficient. I use Mongoose potions to kill mobs and even at ~25% crit chance using the kitty ambush just isn’t the best method for speed. It feels nice when it crits and eliminates a large chunk of mob HP, but the most efficient method is to just pull monsters to you with Faerie Fire and Rake > Claw them to death.
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Well, stealthing up to every mob and literally stealthing between mobs are two entirely different things.
You can easily get to 10-15 yards on a level+1 enemy and jump into aggro range, hit stealth, walk forward for about 3 seconds and Ravage. It’s fairly quick and efficient imo.
Not sure about 75%, but it can be dodged as well and 20% of hp is not worth amount of energy you waste, main problem as I said is speed, not even amount of damage, when you will actually learn to play druid , you will notice it.
Miss, dodge, parry, you’re refunded energy regardless. Edit: It’s 80% energy refunded btw, I double checked it just to be sure.
I don’t really know what else to say about speed, just don’t walk between mobs in stealth and you’ll be better off.
As I said, you can make it kinda alright if you are jump stealthing, but it is random outcome , so in most cases it is not even worth doing it.