Strongly debatable, but the reason MCP is so valuable for bears and cats is you don’t scale with weapon damage in the first place, so the only real way to increase your DPS is to make you attack faster.
Pretty sure for every melee (and hunter) auto attacks make up a very large portion of your damage. More for rogue/warrior, but cat should be seeing auto as a large chunk.
You also prefer Strength over Agility. Druids get 2 melee AP per 1 Str, whereas they get 1 melee AP per 1 Agi - 50% as strong. They do get additional crit chance, but the threshold is so high the raw AP is better.
EDIT: Going off of the guide I’m looking at (which is, admittedly, for private servers) for clarification, it does look like Agi is more valuable prior to 33% buffed crit. So that is something to keep in mind, until higher gear levels you’ll probably value Agility more - though they still say to look for a 2:1 ratio of Str to Agi.
Exactly. Feral isn’t about raw DPS, it’s about solid DPS while offering flexibility - Rogues and fully DPS spec’d Warriors don’t offer any utility other than raw damage. Feral can offheal or offtank where needed but do far more damage than a Warrior offtank would do when not tanking.
A druid using MCP will out-DPS a druid not using it - until they get to the FAP level of weapons, but that’s much later. I wouldn’t begrudge someone wanting to use it myself, but that’s how it is.
Of course, if someone wants to do max DPS or threat, MCP is what they need. Otherwise they can stick with basically a Warden Staff forever as a bear.
The logic that raw DPS is the only thing that matters just isn’t correct. Max DPS for the spec is a good thing to look out for, but you should not be running purely Mages, Warriors, and Rogues - they bring almost no utility. You still need Warlocks to buff the Mages (and for their shard abilities), you need a Priest to buff the Warlocks (later anyway), you need other classes to buff the Warriors and Rogues. You don’t need top tier DPS - you need flexibility. Druids offer that. They’re great healers, have Innervate/BRes, and in the case of Feral can offheal or tank and also DPS.
You shouldn’t turn away someone playing a class that does less DPS just because of that.
I’m not saying don’t bring a feral druid even though it is sub optimal to bring cat dps and even lotp doesn’t make up the difference a 5th rogue or pure dps would bring.
All the other druid utility is bought from healers.
What i am saying is dont bring a dps that can’t even be bothered trying to be the best at his class because then you have a suboptimal spec being played poorly and that does bring down everyone.
You don’t need to be crazy best in slotted to be useful in a raid. Often players with worse gear were more productive because they followed instructions better and were more clever with their kits
Contributing to a raid is way more than sheer DPS. Even for DPS classes.
These are the Classic forums. If you have no interest in Classic, I don’t think you need to be here - and belittling people isn’t an interest in the game. You’ve clearly said you had no interest in it.
I assume people will be putting forth the effort for progression - I certainly hope they will. And that includes MCP if you are a druid trying to be competitive.
Congratulations are being able to identify where you are located on the internet?
What you think does not matter thankfully. You can get your whole “only people who are doing something I agree with can talk to me” nonsense out of here.
Who have I belittled?
My prerogative not yours. You’re doing an excellent job showing how welcoming the classic community can be.
