Honest question really, coming from a Feral main for 10+ years.
Why would someone want to play a rogue over a druid? Seems their survivability is lower and yes you can transmog on a Rogue, but what else is there?
Am I missing something?
- Players who enjoy the play style of Outlaw or Subtlety (and technically Combat if we go back that far) simply will not get anything close to those experiences on a feral druid. Feral druid is only similar to assassination rogue.
- Since Blizzard removed snapshotting from assassination rogue and feral has been energy-capped, even assassination feels different to play than feral. There are certainly similarities, it’s clear some design was borrowed between the two; but there definitely are different priorities between both specs.
- Survivability is tough to compare between the two. Rogue has FAR better magic damage survivability options plus cheat death. Evasion is also better for the period it’s up for physical damage survivability than anything a druid has. And then the primary means to become sturdier as a druid costs us significant DPS, whereas a rogue loses no damage when using any of its defensive options.
- There is no expectation of doing anything but DPS on a rogue. Short of asking you to reroll your character, you’ll never have your raid leader begging you to tank or heal when a usual in those roles happens to be out that night.
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or say we’re full on melee swap to boomie. Having to find that dead healer/tank and brez during lust (or when brez took you out of cat/bear/moonkin form).
You’re playing in greens, it doesn’t matter what class or spec you choose to play as.
As someone who played Rogue before ever touching a Druid, I find it very hard to go back to Rogue, even when they put up better numbers.
Druids QoL and playstyle (while similar) just feels superior to Rogue in every sense.
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I agree with this. I think really the only thing I’ll miss is rogue utility for random bgs/pvp. For everything else Druid suits my needs better and I still have access to stealth.
How come I only ever see this question asked with Ferals and Rogues? Why should the answer be any different between say, Mage and Warlock? You play one class because you want to play that class. They’re two different experiences. Certainly they have similarities, many classes in WoW do. But they’re still different classes.
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People have been saying the exact opposite for years, why play a feral when you can play a rogue.
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I feel this way about druids when compared to my monk. I find windwalker more fun than feral but guardian more fun than brewmaster. It’s all personal taste. I found subtlety pretty fun when I tried it during Mop: Remix because it’s a different playstyle.
I can understand when people ask between feral and assassination rogue and guardian versus prot warrior. It was pretty clear that feral cat was designed as a stripped down sin rogue and feral bear was designed as a stripped down prot warrior. For the past few expansions prior to TWW, feral druid and sin rogue did feel quite similar, with largely just ability name changes and some CDs being the only difference.
But yes, when looking at the class as a whole, the question didn’t make sense. And even for feral versus guardian, those similarities stopped at just a single spec of each; there were very few similarities ever between a feral druid and a subtlety rogue.
Probably because both 3 out of 4 druid specs are D tier this expansion. Literally only bear is performing well in any high end content. Ive been a feral main since Cata and im not going to switch, but you need about 650ilvl and 3500 rating to get an invite to +2 key over a Frost DK in greens. Feral needs serious buffs to compete with any rogue spec
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Yea this is the first time I’ve heard the question posed the other way, as well. Usually you hear people saying “why play feral when you can play rogue” lol.
Bow down to your cat overlords!
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