What happened to feral druids?

[Grizzle-eredar]

@Dispelled-garona

You cannot succeed without weak auras, and there’s just a lot of people who don’t use them. Meaning, there is no in-game way to track empower bleed snapshots, and that’s the entire core mechanic of this spec.

There is no need to track anything any more as it’s all empowered nowadays.
Rake is smart cast, so as long as you don’t cast Rake on a target with one, it’ll spread to others without it first and foremost (in the event of double clawed rake)

[Syñful-proudmoore]

@Erpolith-moon-guard

I used to get kicked when joining groups in SL. They saw I was feral, or saw my energybar, and without a word I was removed.

I was playing a feral druid in shadowlands and i remember that…

I couldnt believe people kicked me for playing feral. So i upped and switched to fire mage.

[Phoenix-fizzcrank]

Every other melee does feral’s job better.

Why would I ever bring a feral that might be cleaved, when I have a ret paladin who has an immunity, a BR and does more dps? Also, every other class is only losing 1 GCD to BR while feral has shift into and out of form, losing tons of uptime.

A rogue brings 3 specs of Mdps all which give more control than feral could ever dream of, shroud and sap?

Also, “go into bear form” is feral’s solution to living 1 shots. I love the idea that as a ret, I can bubble and keep doing full dps while the feral is sitting in bear not doing squat, losing GCDs.

But don’t worry, feral can bring innervate and a raid buff, which at least in a raid environment is enough to sell yourself.

[Faehrel-thrall]

Feral is so fun, I honestly dont know why more don’t play it.
Except lets see…
if you forget to bear… you die.
DH/ret/BM can outdo you any day of the week before you get ramped up enough to compete.
utility… mid
survivability… very bad
we’re all ST or AoE
and it’s getting worse in TWW.

@Phoenix-fizzcrank

I love the idea that as a ret, I can bubble

Get removed you scum. God I hate rets.

[Mysterïa-area-52]

@Galedron-area-52

Despite a vocal minority that scream for further complexity and difficulty in the game

this is why I like only a few specs.
I want more buttons, not fewer.

[Rita-velen]

I hate feral, resto only

But, feral is the spec paired with resto’s damage because it’s tuning is buffed to high heaven by adaptive swarm and liveliness. Maybe that will change one day and rdruids can do good damage without shapeshifting. Right now I just don’t do damage.

[Opalunaiya-bleeding-hollow]

@Shevanel-crusader-strike

Why do they keep designing specs that are complex mechanically but don’t do any damage? it has to be incompetence, there literally is no other explanation.

They hate druids, because they’re harder to design for and balance than other specs. They can’t bring back the hybrid tax and make all 4 specs look really bad, because that would look really bad. They can’t all be good, because everybody would play druid. So they just make one at a time bad. Making guardian or resto nonviable might have unpredictable results in grouping or content completion. Because there are 2 dps specs, it’s usually one of them that takes the hit. Which usually is feral.