Thursday, October 21, 2010

Feral druid dps for Patch 4.0.1, a basic guide to opening on a target

First up - here is the basic build - you can play with the points in Brutal Impact, Survival Instincts and Nurturing Instinct and move them about elsewhere if you want - the rest is pretty much required for best dps at the moment:



The above links you to wow head and you can see the Glyphs I recommend. The instant cast roots is for raids or instances where you need to cc melee players or mobs - I'm using it to practice for CC in Cataclysm - and it works really well.

PVE and PVP Opener (Take care vs blink classes in pvp due to loss of feral charge as we use it in the opener) - this is something I've seen a lot of ferals do wrong with the new patch, so I thought it would be a good idea to show you what I've found to be the optimal opener:

Feral Charge (grants you a free Ravage due to Stampede talent)
Pounce (opens with a bleed dot - even if immune from the stun you get a bleed)
Ravage (use up your free ravage, and also with the talent Predatory Strikes you get a better crit chance)
Mangle (increases the bleed damage)

IF you have 5 combo points at this point:

Tigers Fury (also improves bleed damage now)
Rip (your main bleed)
Rake


If you have less than 5 combo points
Tigers Fury (also improves bleed damage now)
Rake (another bleed)
Rip

That's the opener - you only want to apply Rip when you have 5 combo points, not before. Then you need to go into your standard dps rotation - which by now you should have figured out - if not and I get enough requests, I'll make a new video :-)

cheers,
Red

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

What necessary words... super, a magnificent phrase

xitzee said...

Hm just a question ;pp Doesnt your guild looking by accident for warlock?;p current level 0 but pretty nice raid experience;p

RED said...

Well Xitzee,

I'd be more than happy to have you over here - as long as you don't mind VERY casual raiding and plenty of players that are no where near your amazing skill level :-)

If that's ok, then ofc welcome on in!

/hugs
Red

Hiroo said...

Ok, Im new with druid, lvling one almost for a year, but...I use Mangle as my combo builder.I see, most of druids use shred as a combo builder.I try both and see no difference.Im mosty first on dps so I keep mangle as my primary cb.Opener is same as in guide.Can u suggest me something or give me some tips for patch 4.0.1?!

Thanx

Gre said...

Hi Red,

Great clean and easy understandable guide tnx alot, found it very helpful, great guide after everythin got changed.

Can u post your UI config on wowinterface or give a link here i rly fell in love for your UI but have no exp of how to config.

Tnx a lot

Gre

Private Pyro said...

I really dig this spec. I noticed that myself and the tank kept replacing each others' Infected Wounds. Since they don't stack I don't need it anymore. And I don't feel guilty about not speccing into it if it's not going to top my dps anyway. /cheer
ty Red

Mike said...

Red, just a heads up you already have instant roots (counts as a nature spell) with Predatory Strikes so the glyph is just so/so and isn't extremely useful I'd go with rebirth for PvE and possibly PvP since we'll have rated battlegrounds soonand a quick rez on an ally back to 100% could serve many uses, just a suggestion, no need to increase it's CD if we already have it as an instant cast spell.

RED said...

Mike,

actually no, I tend to use my instant casts for heals or cyclones - the instant roots lets me catch runners, root melee in 1v2 or 3 situations and otherwise control people much more - trust me, instant roots as well as instant cyclone is game changing in a 1v3 situation.

Root the melee, cyclone the healer, nuke the other - etc.

cheers for all the comments guys!

Red

MetroRamX said...

Dear Red,

First I have to say that I'm a french guy so my english may be harsh or some :)

I have trouble opening with pounce cause u have to be in furtive mode to hit it n i can't see anywhere a notice about that... so i'm askin u directly ^^

How do u do that opener ??

Thanks in advance

Cheers