Opinions on Feral Druids, for Cataclysm BG's (Rated and Normal)

[Ualaa]

Are you going to pvp, if so, from my experience I left out all fb stuff, it just doesn't do enough dps I found and it was so situational I found.

I'd consider putting in more fb in my setup, but I need some sort of combo point display on my main from slaves.

If you want some macros, I,ve got plenty now.

Yes, the primary focus will be battlegrounds, both rated (until max Conquest Points each week) and then non-rated.

Definitely interested in seeing what has been tried before.
What has worked, but also what has not worked and why it hasn't.



I honestly don't like Ferocious Bite that much.
But I've found Rip will randomly fail to apply on top of another Rip (even from the same Druid), with the message to the effect that it cannot overwrite the existing spell.
Ferocious Bite being a straight DD can always apply.

I'm making the assumption... 10x Rakes, 50x Mangles, and 5x Rips, the target will either be dead, or below 25% health at which point the FB will refresh the Rip. There's no guarantee of that.

If a 5CP Rip would always land on a target, without the occasional but consistent glitch, I'd probably omit FB entirely.



The Combo Points are hard to track.

I've basically just decided on a rotation of:
a) Four moves that give Combo Points; and then
b) A move that uses Combo Points.

And then trusting to luck.

Feral Cats have always had an abundance of Crit.
Most often, I'll get at least one crit out of the four moves (in a few hours of tweaking the DPS, the active toon always had at least one crit in four moves).
That's not a guarantee, but again it is quite likely at least most of the time.

The pacing is perfect for Rake uptime.
Unfortunately, Rip should really be allowed to tick a tad longer, before it is again applied.
Messing around for a bunch of hours, it seems the choice is:
a) Rake is perfect, Rip is never allowed to expire but is reapplied too early.
b) Rip is perfect, but the target does not have Rake on them at all times.