Woah, thanks for all the helpful comments

but yeah, I must have done something wrong with the feral druid. Maybe I was just tired and wasnt paying attention. I'll go back and recheck her gears and spec, as I thought 17k was rather low also, given that she was in mostly blue feral gear.

And as for the concerns about the ret pally as dps. I'm also a bit concerned about movement intensive fights. only thing I can think of is to create a separate follow macro and bind it only to the pally (so "1" for all follow and assist focus, and maybe something like alt + 1 for only pally follow and assist/attack focus target?) not sure how practical that will be, but as those are the only level 80 characters available to me atm, I will just have to make do until i get my hunters up to 80. :/

But thank you for the advice on respeccing zaelar! I didnt really think about dual specing them to be able to reassign roles per the demands of specific encounters. thank you for that to think about.

Anywho, back to work. But thanks to all for your helpful comments and advice! Have a great day