Stat Priorities
Stat Ranking
The general Stat Priority for Feral is:
Agility > Mastery > Crit > Haste > Versatility
Though, the stats remain relatively close in value. It’s always recommended to sim individual gear upgrades.
Stat Outline
Mastery is generally your best Secondary Stat, however item level is a good indicator of upgrades for the most part since Agility is rather strong. A general idea of what each stat does is outlined below, but you should always be simming upgrades.
Agility: This is our primary stat. It gives us Attack Power, and increases our damage. This is our highest priority Stat.
Critical Strike: Increases the chance to land a critical strike, doing double damage. This is a very valuable stat for us due to Primal Fury, giving us 2 Combo Points when a generator crits, doing a lot to improve the feel and flow of our rotation. This tends to be our one of our best secondary stats, especially earlier on, but it will generally drop off in value. Also loses a small amount of value in AoE compared to single-target.
Haste: Increases your energy generation, Omen of Clarity procs, and Bleed tick rate (or simply: bleed damage).
Mastery: Increases the damage dealt by your Bleeds and Finishers.
Versatility: Increases your damage done and decreases your damage taken.
Feral has no particular breakpoint for any stat that you should aim for. The closest thing is 50% Crit making it so that Shred is guaranteed to crit during Berserk. However, this is definitely not something you should actively aim for and should continue to sim individual gear upgrades.
The best way to calculate stat priorities for your character is to "sim" your character.
Races
Feral is in a bit of a special situation in that there’s a Race whose Utility Racial provides us with a significant dps boost and M+ utility, that being Night Elf with Shadowmeld, making that Race superior to alternatives. With Cross Faction instanced content being available, it’s now easier than ever to be a Night Elf.
Alliance: As discussed, Night Elf is the strongest option if you’re Alliance.
Horde: Tauren is the best Horde race, with damage roughly equal to Night Elf, however War Stomp while useful, is generally less desirable than Shadowmeld for utility.
Enchants
Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Graceful Avoidance
Chest: Waking Stats
Bracers: Avoidance
Legs: Fierce Armor Kit
Boots: Enchant Boots - Watcher's Loam
Ring: Devotion of Critical Strike
Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Wafting Devotion
Head: Incandescent Essence
Gems
You will want to socket the Gem that gives you the combination of Secondary Stats that is currently best for you and 1 Inscribed Illimited Diamond, which you should prioritise.
Consumables
Food: Grand Banquet of the Kalu’ak / Fortune Cookie > Thousandbone Tongueslicer
Phial: Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage for Raid and Phial of Tepid Versatility for M+
Potion: Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
Sharpening stone: Hissing Rune (or what sims highest based on your stats).
Health Pot: Dreamwalker’s Healing Potion