I’m not a very good Feral, but I felt like my ST was crap while trying to make Bloodtalons work - the meta choice for Feral. Ironically, when I gave up and went for the less DPS but infinitely easier Lion’s Strength option, I could focus twice as much on just making sure my dots didn’t fall off and my DPS shot up nearly 15-20% on average.
The blood talons max DPS build is extremely unforgiving, and if you fail to proc blood talons (or proc blood talons too much without using the exact right abilities and clip dots), your DPS plummets. Whereas Lion’s Strength is only a little behind a perfectly played Bloodtalons build.
If you think your ST is crap, try using the Icy Veins meta build for Wild Stalker, but running Lion’s Strength instead of Bloodtalons and drop Brutal Slash for Wild Slashes, since you no longer need another combo point generator to feed Bloodtalons.
Once i get better at Feral, I’ll try Bloodtalons again, but for now, it was a huge buff for me.