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I have been considering lvling my druids as feral and doing some BGs with them, how have they worked so far for you?
By the time I get them to 85, I will have a priest, Shaman and Pally all at 85 to try ad healers +4 DPS and of course another druid as well if I choose to go 4x feral 1x resto.
Haven't done a lot of BG's with them.
Did a few at 80th, but they were severely outgeared.
Did a lot better than with my Shammies, when they were at a similar gear discrepancy; but being able to pick a lot of your battles and avoid crap is probably the difference.
Was going to play them today, but ended up tweaking my Priest + 4x DK setup instead.
And then played them for a couple of hours, tweaking as I went.
From a PvE point of view...
5x Ferals, don't really need any healing at all while leveling, aside from Leader of the Pack.
Even the few quests where you click an item to summon some help... well the mob is dead fast; one of those, I didn't get credit because I killed the mob without clicking the item, but they've easily killed everything (aside from Baron Geddon) by just going at it (Hyjal and 3/4's of Vashj'ir, so far).
A couple of times, I've managed to get a finisher off (5th move) for the instant cast big heal x5.
But almost everything is dead so quickly, it never gets that far into the rotation.
I've got 5x Feral, each with a Resto off-spec.
One of them has all of the relevant bear talents, so is not a 100% optimal kitty.
One of them has the Faerie Fire (3 stack) talent and that is glyphed.
One of them has the attack/snare debuff.
The other two have my "optimal" talent spec.
The bear spec has Maul glyph, the FFF spec has FF glyph, the Infected Wounds spec has Rake glyph and the other two have the Rebirth glyph for the 100% battle rez's.
I've got the Repeater Region set, to an Action Target Group for: Rejuvenation, Lifebloom, Regrowth and Healing Touch.
That way I can dual-spec, and have a mapped key remove the non-healers, but use the same region/hotkeys.
For PvE, can run the Bear, one Resto and three as Kitties.
Might have to go three as Boomkin, depending how heroics are.
But honestly, I'm not in any kind of a rush; did that last expansion and didn't like it.
The Feral Charge and Ravage macro isn't too good as a warcraft macro.
But having Charge on one key, and Ravage on another key works great.
Thinking of a warcraft macro, for [nostealth] Ravage / [stealth] pounce... combined with two-step IS Boxer mapped key for Charge - WoW Macro.
I use that as an opener occasionally, and it hits for 75k or so (at 82nd); not too bad for an energy free opener.
Have to Charge-Ravage quickly, as the mob will continue to move.
The DK's/Priest have felt very slow, compared to the Feral team.
30% movement all the time (Kitty) makes the other teams feel like they're crawling.
The instant Aquatic Form (100% swim, glyphed) will be a lot more of a loss, when other teams hit Vashj'ir.
playing an all feral team for a while does spoil the hell out of you. playing a new team feels like playing EQ without SoW. *nostalgiaface*