Feral Druid Dragonflight Class Guide

General Information

Welcome to our Feral Druid Guide for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. We will help you to learn and master Feral Druids in either Raids or Mythic Keystone Dungeons.

Last Update: 16-03-2023

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Basics of Feral Druid

Feral Druids have received very strong buffs with the release of Dragonflight. Due to the new Talent Tree, Feral Druids are now capable of dealing heavy burst damage in multi-target situations. Feral Druids also do not rely on Convoke the Spirits anymore, which grants them consistent damage which can be very useful.

Anyways, Feral Druids might be very difficult for new players due to its playstyle. With Dragonflight, you have to mainly focus on keeping all your debuffs on the enemy, which can be potentially up to four debuffs at the same time.

Stat Choice for Feral Druid

General Stat Priority for Feral Druids with our Build is:

Agility
Critical Strike
Mastery
Versatility
Haste

Basic Rotation

Read the Rotation and Cooldowns section for more in-depth information.

Use Prowl before you engage into the fight
Use Rake for the additional bonus damage
Use Shred to gain Combo Points
Use Rip with 5 Combo Points
Maintain the debuff of Rake and Rip
Use Ferocious Bite to spend Combo Points

Builds and Talents

General Talent Tree

Most Notable Talents

Killer Instinct grants 6% more Physical damage, and Nurturing Instinct grants 6% more Magical damage and healing. Nature’s Vigil and Protector of the Pack are granting significant passive Heal to your party. Heart of the Wild empowers all other abilities not associated with your specialization.

Other Damage Talents

Feral abilities and Physical damage notes are located on the left side, while Moonkin abilities like Sunfire and Starsurge are located on the right side. In the middle, you find Healing and Tanking abilities.

Crowd Control & Utility

Typhoon, Cyclone, Mass Entanglement, Ursol’s Vortex, Mighty Bash, Maim and Incapacitating Roar are strong Utility abilities. Remove Corruption cleanses Curses and Poisons. Stampeding Roar grants Movement speed to all party members. Innervate grants Mana regeneration to your healer.

Defensive Talents

Thick Hide reduces all damage taken, Well-Honed Instincts grants Frenzied Regeneration when falling below 40% health, Matted Fur and Improved Barkskin, Verdant Heart and Ursine Vigor are all granting more Survivability.

Specialization Talent Tree

Single Target Talents

Feral Frenzy deals damage to your target and grants 5 Combo Points.
Incarnation replaces your Berserk, and has a chance to proc randomly.
Moment of Clarity increases the chance of triggering Omen of Clarity by 50%.
Lunar’s Aspiration causes your Moonfire to be usable in Cat form.
Primal Claws grants your Combo Point generating abilities to generate one more.

Multi Target Talents

Primal Wrath applies Rip to all enemies hit.
Double-Clawed Rake applies Rake to one additional target.
Predator resets the cooldown of Tiger’s Fury whenever you kill an enemy.
Rampant Ferocity causes your Ferocious Bite to deal 25% of its damage to 5 additional targets affected by Rip.
Rip and Tear deals additional damage whenever you apply Rip to your target.
Adaptive Swarm is a periodic debuff which increases the damage of other periodic debuffs by 25%.

Mythic+ Talents For Feral Druid

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Aberrus, The Shadowed Crucible

Kazzara, the Hellforged

Molgoth

The Forgotten Experiments

Assault of the Zaqali

Rashok, the Elder

The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn

Magmorax

Echo of Neltharion

Scalecommander Sarkareth

Aberrus, The Shadowed Crucible

Kazzara, the Hellforged

Molgoth

The Forgotten Experiments

Assault of the Zaqali

Rashok, the Elder

The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn

Magmorax

Echo of Neltharion

Scalecommander Sarkareth

Rotation and Cooldowns

Basic Rotation for Feral Druids in Single Target

Use Prowl before you engage into the fight
Use Rake for the additional bonus damage
Use Moonfire (if skilled)
Use Shred
Make sure to have Bloodtalons active (if skilled)
Use Rip with 5 Combo Points
Use Adaptive Swarm (if skilled)
Use Incarnation: Avatar of Ashamane
Use Tiger’s Fury
Use Feral Frenzy (if skilled)
Maintain the debuff of Rake and Moonfire
Refresh Rip with around 4 seconds remaining
Make sure to use Finishing Moves with Bloodtalons buff (if skilled)
Use Shred as filler
Use Brutal Slash as filler
Use Feral Frenzy on cooldown
Use Adaptive Swarm on cooldown
Use Tiger’s Fury when in need for Energy, or for buff the damage of Feral Frenzy

Basic Rotation for Feral Druids in Multi Target

Use Prowl before you engage into the fight
Use Rake for the additional bonus damage
Use Brutal Slash
Use Thrash
Make sure to have Bloodtalons active (if skilled)
Use Adaptive Swarm (if skilled)
Use Primal Wrath with 5 Combo Points
Use Berserk if available
Use Tiger’s Fury
Make sure to use Finishing Moves with Bloodtalons buff (if skilled)
Use Primal Wrath to spend combo points only
Use Ferocious Bite only as free use with Apex Predator
Use Rake on different targets
Use Thrash as filler
Use Brutal Slash as filler
Use Adaptive Swarm on cooldown
Use Tiger’s Fury whenever available

Stat Priority

Stat Choice for Feral Druid

General Stat Priority for Feral Druids with our Build is:

Agility
Critical Strike
Mastery
Versatility
Haste

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Agility is your primary stat, meaning that Itemlevel is superior in most cases. Higher Itemlevel will also increase your Stamina and Armor that you gain.

Critical Strike increases the chance for your abilities and spells to deal double damage.

Haste reduces your global cooldown, your time to cast spells, and reduces the cooldown of many abilities.

Versatility grants you a flat damage and healing increase, but also a damage decrease for half of its value.

Mastery increases the damage done by your bleed abilities and finishing moves.

The further we are getting into the expansion, the effects of diminishing returns start to limit your effective gain of your secondary stats. After reaching 30% (by rating) of any given stat, you will start to receive a penalty that reduces the gain from more of the same stat over this treshold.

Stat priority can differ on every character. Make sure to simulate yourself on Raidbots get the perfect results for you.

Gear and Trinkets

Best In Slot Gear for Feral Druid

This List shows the current Best-In-Slot Gear for Dragonflight Season 1. Many Items can be potentially substituted with any Profession Gear, especially early on into the Season.

Additionally, there is the option for Profession Gear to be crafted with additional Buffs/Perks, which can benefit your character in certain situations.

Slot	Item
Head	Lost Landcaller’s Leggings
Necklace	Eye of the Vengeful Hurricane
Shoulders	Lost Landcaller’s Leggings
Cloak	Acid-Proof Webbing
Chest	Lost Landcaller’s Leggings
Wrists	Loyal Flametender’s Bracers
Hands	Lost Landcaller’s Leggings
Belt	Fused Shale Waistband
Legs	Lost Landcaller’s Leggings
Boots	Ice-Climber’s Cleats
Ring 1	Seal of Diurna’s Chosen
Ring 2	Seal of Filial Duty
Weapon 1	Awak’mani, Grimtotem’s Legacy
Weapon 2	/