I’ve been having a lot of fun playing feral this patch. My damage does feel a little underwhelming though. Also rate my name 
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It bugged and wouldn’t let me post on my druid 
I swapped feral from DH. It’s fun and entirely new since I’ve never played Druid before November of last year.
Even though DH does a good 10% more damage with equal gear, its a boring, mindless rotation and unworthy of the damage it does. I’ve been a Feral main since TBC when they added Malorne set. Times like these, when Feral is good, but everyone seems to refuse to acknowledge that fact, are when you can really stand out.
Nobody cares when a DH tops meters. When you do it as Feral, people notice lol.
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I am mainly resto but i love feral. We still have solid utility with decent single target and aoe damage. Plus it is really fun to bleed them out in pvp when you know they are expecting to smash you.
It’s “nonviable.”
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It’s all right there.
I used to love Feral and then bloodtalons happened. I just despise that skill and having to self heal to optimize my rotation. I don’t know why but I just really hate it, I haven’t played feral since they made bloodtalons meta, it’s basically required at this point.
I miss playing my kitty.
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You can always fight the system and do the instant root instead ;0
I also don’t feel like I’m doing much damage so far (I’m only level 70, anyway), but Feral is still fun, I agree. I just like running around as a mohawked cat. Never could get into Balance, unfortunately.
It’s great that you enjoy it, but your fun will come to a screetching halt when applying to M+ groups.
I’ve probably run 300 M+'s across all my toons and have seen ONE Feral get invited. And that was to a M0.
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Be a pal and throw an offheal to the tank? That’s what I do on my cat.
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That’s what I do, HoTs are awesome in raids on tanks.
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You do not have to use BT, especially with x3 wild flesh and tigers fury… there are alternative builds and th difference in achieved dps is minuscule.
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Feral can perform just fine in a M+ (even without bloodtallons). I’m consistently topping the dps chart on most of the runs i do. (Usually in the 9-11 range) Feral just requires a very high skill cap compared to a DH.
I got invited to a 16 today no problems on my feral. Don’t have to use blood talons if you don’t want to
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This right here. To quote the ‘primary theory crafters’ on the topic:
Bloodtalons is currently the strongest choice on the tier, but not as clear cut as at launch.
It’s pretty bad. I got 6 classes leveled with similar gear scores this past week, and feral is by far the worst in doing even the most mundane things that are simple and fast on other classes. Like simply doing world quests that require kills. TTK is much longer per target. Farming groups is much harder. I have to use defensive cooldowns and hope to survive when I can just wade in on every other class without doing anything extra.
Those gold elites that I can kill on other dps classes without risk of death is a crapshoot on a feral cat. All those 3 person recommended quests you get while leveling was a piece of cake on DH, pally, DK, warlock, hunter, rogue and warrior, but not on a feral. I had to switch to guardian to get many of them done solo, and even then I died a lot. As far as I am concerned, if a class can’t do the same things with similar ease that other classes can while just leveling, it’s directly proportional to effectiveness at max level. The sneaking around and grabbing clickable objectives while in flight form are great, but you do have to fight eventually, and that’s not nearly as effective, simple or fast as it is on every other class.
TLDR: Feral is far slower to kill mobs, and can’t handle nearly as many at one time without using defensive cooldowns that other classes don’t NEED to use.
How do you fix it? I would start with it not requiring highly itemized gear to be as effective. No class that I use as dps have itemized gear either and they get mobs dead much faster in greater numbers and with a lot less hassle. They’ll get much better with itemized gear while the feral will get to their unitemized level with itemized gear.
I enjoy my feral just fine. It’s definitely not my favorite time to play feral (I’ve played bear/kitty druid since bc) but it’s not terrible. My biggest gripe with it is that you really need to have a separate set of gear / tome to swap azerite traits and talents to maximize dps between trash and bosses if you want to really compete. I can spec for single target fights and put up outstanding numbers or i can spec for aoe and put up outstanding numbers but not really both and none of the other specs I’ve played currently are like that. Doesn’t stop me from enjoying the class I’ve played for so long but it makes it understandable why some people don’t.
I love feral, and I actually love the current version of it, although not many seem to. I like the big ferocious bite crits and seeing myself go right up in the meters. I don’t think I want to play any other class for a while. I do enjoy resto but I haven’t had much opportunity to play it outside of m+ pugs which are not generally enjoyable.