Feral druid in M+

Classes Druid
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How do they do?

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Taking them to the vet and putting them to sleep would be a dps increase.

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This has been argued so many times here. The general consensus is they ain’t bad. But also not top tier. Can still do into 20s, but takes “more work” for less reward.

If you like class fantasy and that doesn’t bother you, and you’re competent. You’ll do fine. There IS still a stigma about them but slowly starting to turn around with the addition of the AOE RIP talent added.

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Crap utility, really good AoE or single target depending on traits and talent choice. I was pulling about 30-34k overall dps in M+ 15.

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They can out dps a rogue on AoE so I don’t see how that is the right thing to say. DPS isn’t Feral’s issue. lol

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The only rogues feral could outdps in proper season 2 were maybe assassination and subtlety. Any equally geared outlaw with 3x “keep your wits about you” traits would leave any feral druid in the dust in m+. Maybe, now that it has been nerfed its not the case anymore.

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As a rule though, if we’re comparing Feral’s AoE to Outlaw’s, even if it doesn’t beat Outlaw, I’d argue that we’re doing something right.

Feral has incredibly good AoE sustain without sacrificing a lot of ST sustain to get it. The result is that their AoE during Reaping and large pulls will typically beat all but the best AoE classes and while their damage on bosses isn’t quite as impressive it’s not nothing. I don’t think they’ll be brought to to MDI any time soon but they have the damage to compete in high keys in spades.

Feral does however lack in good dungeon utility, their most attractive tools being Roots, Rebirth, and Soothe. All of which comes from being a Druid rather than being a Feral. Hibernate has an incredibly small list of targets among all dungeons and none of them are really meaningful ones. Soothe sees good use on Raging weeks and sees a lot of play in Underrot and Motherload in particular. Rebirth is Rebirth. :stuck_out_tongue: (Though as of 8.2 we need to exit Cat Form to cast Rebirth so I guess that’s a thing now.)

The rest of our utility kit is nice but doesn’t make a huge splash in dungeons. So a lot of classes with similar damage tend to have a better selection of utility than us, Monks and DHs in particular tend to step in a lot of our niches and do it better besides.

All in all, if you play a competent Feral you can definitely compete in high keys once you get there, but getting invited is hard as you’re nobody’s first choice.

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Just wanted to add in 8.2 we can now cast clense in cat form.

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