Why Feral DPS Needs a Buff in Cataclysm

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Sub rogues are better for what you want and boomies are the better druids for Cata.

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Your mastery is very strong, crit helps you with combo point gen making it also very strong and haste isn’t that far behind crit on your sims. Feral has phenomenal stats scaling when compared to the specs around it. Lets not lie about how well feral scales here.

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This dude really working at his complaining.

Maybe make 10 more threads about the same thing? Lmfao

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If that were true, then Feral wouldn’t be considered F tier in damage, literally being outperformed by every single DPS spec except for MM Hunter and Frost Mage. (Traditional PvP specs) Even Blood Death Knights are outperforming Ferals in damage, as per WCL data in the 99th percentile bracket! But is that acceptable?

We’re simply requesting a buff to become competitive; we’re not aiming for S tier, just seeking to be at the lower end of A tier or the higher end of B tier.

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Because right now our stats are the lowest they’re going to be all xpac? All of the classes close to you on the DPS meter have 1-2 stats that do much less for them than it does for you. Get gear and get better, you’ll be fine.

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Lol that is wrong in OG cata feral was S tier damage but now we are F tier!!!

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And in OG cata, raid finder was added in dragon soul. Oh the hypocrisy…

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This post is not regarding LFR but is about the need for Feral druids needing a buff!!!

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The tier lists I just looked at (icyveins, wowhead, warcraft tavern) put feral dps @ b tier, b tier, and c tier respectively.

Where are you getting this f tier nonsense?

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More hypocrisy. You try to turn every thread into a feral thread. The more you cry, the more I will call you out.

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Considering Feral ranks 20th out of 22 in DPS, it would be classified as F-tier. Similarly, if you answer 20 questions incorrectly on a 22-question quiz, that equates to a 9% grade, which is an F.

Ill just treat you as spam and trolling and report as such.

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False reporting genuine criticisms is actually the bannable offense there. You have been the one spamming the forums about feral in every thread.

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Sure, if you ignore the utility brought by feral and only way raw damage output. But even then, there is still 4-5 other classes below you on that list and none of them bring anywhere near the utility feral does.

It seems you are hyper fixating on only part of the equation and loudly complaining about your narrow view of the subject. Probably why you aren’t finding much sympathy on the subject.

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The only classes that Feral Druids outperform are MM Hunters and Frost Mages. That is only 2 not 4-5!!

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I’m seeing arcane mage, frost mage, mm hunter, and fury warrior all below feral dps. And none of them can OT or brings anywhere near the utility feral does.

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Well according to WCL in the

ALL - BM and Frost are the only classes under Feral.
75% - 99% - BM and Frost again being the only 2 spec under Feral

Feral DPS requires an entirely different set of gear, enchants, and gems. They can’t simply switch to bear form and tank a boss if the tank dies, because a cat DPS build doesn’t include the necessary defense cap, nor do they carry the appropriate tanking gear, gems, and enchants when they’re set up for DPS.

I play as both a feral DPS and a feral tank, maintaining two completely different sets of specs, enchants, gems, and builds—one for the bear form and another for the cat DPS.

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Again, you are hyper fixating on DPS output only and ignoring all utility brought by the class. That’s ridiculous, especially when you see two out of three mage specs and two out of three hunter specs down there too without utility.

If you want raw damage, why don’t you play a raw damage class?

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Also want to point out you have 3 other specs you can play that are also good. Plus dual spec being cheap.

So you aren’t top dmg on one spec. That spec is still top in pvp and brings a lot of utility which makes it still useful.

Also see a feral druid in top 10 on nef fight. So…obviously not trash tier as you claim.

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Every spec for shaman is good.
Every spec for DK is good.
Every spec for Rogue doing better then feral. (even Sub)
Every warlock spec better then Feral

Feral is the ONLY MELEE dps spec for druid!!!

Just because it does good in PvP doesnt mean it has to suffer in PvE!!!

Unholy DK where S tier in PvP and PvE in WotLK!!!

That’s 1 fight out of 13

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Also this…

classic.warcraftlogs(dot)com/zone/statistics/1023#dataset=100