I’m a balance main for pvp and am basically stacking vers and haste.
Would I be successful playing a feral with these stats if I wanted to mess around in bgs once in a while?
You would be fine. At a minimum you need the agility polearm.
Note: Also see this other post from today Dual Spec Balance/Feral - PVP - Classes / Druid - World of Warcraft Forums (blizzard.com)
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You want vers/mastery for both.
I assume you meant vers/mastery if you are playing both? If not haste > mastery for boomie. Mastery is only helping during eclipse phases which u wont stay in as much in pvp.
Wrong. Mastery is priority for boomkin. You can gear nearly identical for guardian/boomkin/feral. Its all vers/mastery. Feral enjoys crit in PvE but less important in PvP.
I’m guessing since we don’t have massive haste values like in bfa we’re not reducing cast times enough to outweigh the dmg boost from mastery.
From a PvE perspective, don’t have nearly as much of a benefit of getting off tons of casts with the new Eclipse compared to BfA for example (Streaking Stars used to be a huge amount of our damage). With the current ST rotation, running BoAT legendary means every Eclipse rotation would consist of 3x Starsurges followed by maintaining DoTs and casting the respective filler. Overwhelming majority of our damage will be coming from Starsurges. The AP generation is very consistent in every cycle we always get 3 Starsurges. To get enough Haste to try and get a 4th Starsurge means we need to give up other stats to get enough Haste which isn’t worth it. Crit is also devalued because of BoAT legendary.
Only exception I think would be in AoE, at least according to Bloodmallet sims? Haste seems to be value much higher, maybe because a lot more of our damage is coming from Starfire and getting more of those off is better? Not 100% sure.
For PvP though, I’m pretty sure every caster wants to have Vers + Haste. All caster’s damage is gated behind getting their spells off and reducing that time is far more beneficial than trying to get a really slow spell off.
Not only damage but getting clones off and roots off is sometimes tricky and if I can reduce the cast time thats always more beneficial than mastery.
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In terms of maximizing your damage (i.e. PvE), vers and haste are Feral’s worst stats. Obviously you need vers for PvP, but I would think that any other stat would be better than haste.
From what i’ve seen, the top casters are mostly recommending vers/haste in pvp, including supatease (Boomy). Just too important for getting casts and CC off.
In saying that, vers/mastery is good in pve and pvp, so that’s what i’ve gone with. But i’ll only be pushing 1800 for the 220’s for m+, so listen to the good pvp’ers.