Feral Druid DPS PVE Guide – Cataclysm

Welcome to the PVE Feral Druid DPS Guide for World of Warcraft Cataclysm!

This guide will teach you how to play a Feral Druid DPS in a raid. It covers talents, glyphs, gems, enchantments, rotation, and gameplay tips.

This is the standard Balance Druid talent build.

Prime Glyphs

• Glyph of Berserk
• Glyph of Bloodletting
• Glyph of Rip

Major Glyphs

• Glyph of Feral Charge
• Glyph of Frenzied Regeneration
• Glyph of Rebirth

Minor Glyphs

• Glyph of Aquatic Form
• Glyph of Dash
• Glyph of Unburdened Rebirth

Gems are situational and depend on the build and equipment. They are used to reach the required stat caps.

• Meta – Agile Shadowspirit Diamond
• Red/Prismatic – Delicate Queen’s Garnet, Delicate Inferno Ruby, or Delicate Chimera’s Eye (Jewelcrafting)
• Yellow
  • If Socket Bonus is not at least +20 Agility – Brilliant Queen’s Garnet or Brilliant Inferno Ruby
  • Otherwise, Critical Strike, Haste, and Mastery Rating are all as valuable, so
  • Deadly Lava Coral or Deadly Ember Topaz
  • Or, Deft Lava Coral or Deft Ember Topaz
  • Or, Adept Lava Coral or Adept Ember Topaz
• Blue
  • If Socket Bonus is not at least +20 Agility, Delicate Queen’s Garnet or Delicate Inferno Ruby
  • Else, Glinting Shadow Spinel or Glinting Demonseye

• Head – Arcanum of the Ramkahen
• Shoulder – Greater Inscription of Shattered Crystal or Swiftsteel Inscription (Inscription)
• Cloak – Enchant Cloak – Major Agility or Swordguard Embroidery (Tailoring)
• Chest – Enchant Chest – Peerless Stats
• Bracers – Enchant Bracer – Agility or Draconic Embossment – Agility (Leatherworking) with Socket Bracer (Blacksmithing)
• Gloves – Enchant Gloves – Greater Mastery with Synapse Springs (Engineering) or Socket Gloves (Blacksmithing)
• Waist – Ebonsteel Belt Buckle or Grounded Plasma Shield (Engineering)
• Legs – Dragonscale Leg Armor or Dragonbone Leg Reinforcements (Leatherworking)
• Boots – Enchant Boots – Major Agility
• Rings – Enchant Ring – Agility (Enchanting)
• Weapon – Enchant 2H Weapon – Mighty Agility

Feral Druids don’t have to worry about which secondary statistics they prioritize, as they will all increase your DPS by about the same amount.

• Agility
• Mastery/Critical Strike/Haste
• Expertise (to 26 cap)
• Hit Rating (to 8% cap)

Your goal with the Feral DPS rotation is to keep up buffs and debuffs while generating Combo Points to use on Finishing Moves

Single Target Rotation

• Combo Point Builders
  • Use Mangle, to keep up bleed damage debuff if no one else is doing so, or to build combo points if you cannot attack boss from behind
  • Use Rake, only to keep 100% uptime on its bleed effect
  • Use Feral Charge + Ravage, so that you’re casting Ravage while you have a Stampede proc
  • Use Shred as your default Combo Point builder, if you can attack the boss from behind
• Finishing Moves
  • Use Rip and maintain (with 5 Combo Points)
    • If target is below 25% hp (or 60% if you have 2-part Tier 13 set bonus), use Ferocious Bite to refresh Rip, ideally with 5 Combo Points
  • Use Savage Roar and maintain (ideally with 5 Combo Points)

Multi Target Rotation

• 2 Targets
  • Use Rip and Rake and maintain
• 3+ Targets
  • Use Swipe

Cooldowns

• Use Faerie Fire if no one else is doing so
• Use Tiger’s Fury on cooldown
• Use Berserk on cooldown