Specifically, shutting down the Tiger’s Fury portion is most important.
Shut down Tiger’s Fury as much as possible and you severely hamper their damage.
Warrior is prolly the squishiest melee in the game rn
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It’s a great defensive. Has an auto heal portion, makes you tankier to overall damage via higher hp pool, and you look cool as werebear. Plus shifting breaks snares/roots and lets you reposition assuming it’s not immediately auto reapplied vs something like frost mage.
Just sucks offensively for druid since it neuters your damage.
That said when warriors pretend d-stance is worse because they do slightly less damage while still being able to offensively pressure (you can use all your abilities and healing reductions etc) it’s pretty fried. D-stance should force them to sword and board and make their offensive kit require a 2h weapon, and that they can’t use fear in stance. Then they’d have a right to complain.
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Feral remains to be an extremely high skill expression class in terms of surviving. The difference between top ferals and seasonal rerolls is how they behave in between their one shot damage.
The AWC ferals (including pika on saturday holy sh1t) played insane, and a large part of their success was the preemptive defensive plays (bear forming literally same globe as kidney, vortex/roots on rogues etc).
Honestly props to all the ferals, insane play. Yeah feral is strong but so was everything else they were fighting
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I hadn’t considered these, specially when there is a hunter/dk in the lobby and you just free primal wrath to max benefit.
Only people that think bear is a great defensive are people who either live in 2s, or never played a druid before.
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Add King of the Jungle PvP talent against any pet class.
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Feral representation in the Arena Cups says it all. Feral is so busted right now and needs nerfs. There is no defending it
Armor is pretty normalized these days. Yes there’s some variance but plate and mail are way closer than they used to be and none of this is even that relevant since most specs do magic primarily or bleeds.
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Armor only “matters” into hunters, fury war, and WW pretty much.
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Exactly, and even that is pretty questionable. Ask DKs how all that plate helps them 
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Feral survival is based on getting healed with uptime on king of the jungle which requires them to be very proactive in dealing damage.
Thus they are great in normal 3s and the AWC but not as good in shuffle when dampening amps up fast.
They are still very squishy with their only real ‘saving grace’ defensive been able to cast barkskin while stunned. Survival instinct is a joke.
They do 450k dps with dots alone on one person, infinite CC, night elf into stealth rake. Squishy? lol