What scaling? I guess we can address this in ToGC.
I’m maining a rogue nowadays in wrath, but I was somewhat surprised and disappointed that feral wasn’t an S tier spec for the start of wrath. I’m not for hardcore no changes or anything, but… this was pretty much the only expac where feral was considered S tier by a large margin… sad that blizzard gave ferals the same experience that retail ferals have dealt with for literally decades…
Meanwhile rogues, locks, and mages just maintain their relative domination…
Again, not a feral and not for no changes, but seeing feral lose what was essentially their hay day is… well it certainly isn’t enjoyable.
Because feral brings rebirth, innervate, 5% crit, raid heal equivalent to a lesser judgement of light, bleed debuff, and the ability to off tank to some extent and still do incredible damage, which is insane for fights like Algalon using the phase punch strat.
Also the fact that sims are showing feral as #1 for ICC due to the fact feral scales more than most classes due to armor pen.
You can tell ferals only just got back on the forums after being away for about 3 months since they’re using all the same refuted arguments ret pallies used for their buff. But times about 1000 because their buff is disproportionate.
Yeah we can. You do realise we can model how well classes perform with gear right?
You act like scaling is paramount for warriors but it’s a made up word for druids lol.
Yeah, they were already better than buffed ret and got buffed over like 10 other specs too lol. If Vezax and Hodir didn’t exist to make casters look good, half the caster specs would be making buff threads. Balance, shadow, and ele are not very good on most fights. Worse than pre-buff feral, way worse than feral now.
Balance in particular only reaches the middle of the pack on 1 fight other than Vezax and Hodir, and it’s the worst or 2nd worst caster on those bosses too.
If we’re actively balancing classes in WoW classes as the ongoing balance changes seem to indicate, a whole lot of specs need buffs now. Make sure you keep bumping your threads supplicating to Blizz to buff your spec next!
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Bleeds dont scale with Armor pen
they’ve been crappy for all of classic and the discrepancy is nowhere near the level warriors were at the beginning of classic. if anything I’d buff them even more to make forum rats even angrier :^)))
Bleed is what, 20-25% of feral dps? Not much more than deep wounds for warrs.
Or maybe due to the fact that it’s the most complex dps class in the game.
Feral ability’s still don’t proc clearcasting procs how they should , in the original version all of your ability’s would have a chance to proc clearcasting, and currently only your auto attacks are able to make that happen besides using faerei fire.
They also took away flower shifting , so in a way it was a trade off.
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I don’t care if you have to use two hands and a foot to play a class. That doesn’t excuse this slap in the face to warriors where the two druids’ dps specs have now been buffed above both warriors dps specs.
If you gave us battle rez and innervate we’d still be picked after feral druids. It’s ridiculous.
This is not and has never been how balancing works in this game. Also, get over yourself. The spec isn’t rocket science. No spec in WoW is.
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Dude nobody cares about warriors…they already have the #2 tank spec, #1 PvP spec, and are good DPS
But the other 75% does. Which is more damage affected by armor than every other class except for Warrior.
You do realize that feral if they were operating how they did back in WOTLK original would be doing about the same as now? Seriously did no one play WOTLK feral back in the day? FERAL dps sucking this bad was never intended. It has always been known to be s tier until blizzard screwed up the mechanics of the class with omens. Now with this ff change it is now basically at the DPS level everyone expected who played it back then.
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As expected, overtuned kitty’s are brought back down to earth.
Yeah but they fixed it in one of the most stupid ways conceivable.
It’s more like an overall nerf to a spec that was fun to play and now is in a worse state. Umm… yay 
Nah they buffed the spec and then nerfed the whole class to compensate for overdoing it. Kneejerk balance at its finest…
Brought back down so the 2 button classes can continue to be the companies favourite.
Oh and the already mangy half furless bear is now shot in a ditch.