Feral Druid Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Feral Druid Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: When Berserk ends, you deal 10% increased damage for 1 second for each combo point spent during Berserk.
• (4) Set Bonus: Berserk lasts 10 seconds longer

Tier Set Discussion:

The 2 set bonus is not the most clear in the wording - the buff’s duration scales with the combo points spent, e.g. if you bite twice with 5 combo points during Berserk, you get a 10s (2x5s) buff after.

The bonus also applies to Incarnation: Avatar Of Ashamane if you are playing that, however the duration on the buff is reduced to 0.75s instead of the full 1 second.

Due to this reduction, Incarn will likely stay a niche, for-fun pick in keys, and unplayable for raid.

You should always prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Feral Druid, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

Continuing the past trends, you’ll want to find one stat-on-use trinket to pair with your cooldowns. This tier, the best one by far is Voracious Heart Of Ula'tek.

As for your second, passive trinket, Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique is by far the strongest for ST/prio trinket, or alternatively for m+, the new Twisted Horror's Tendril.

Guillotine is so far ahead on ST and that’s a weak point for us in keys, so it’s the recommended choice for everywhere even if Tendril might net you a higher overall dps. Alternatives for this slot are Keeper's Seething Core or Gebbo's Bottomless Bag.

If you don’t raid, unfortunately for you mythic+ trinkets are significantly worse than the raid counterparts for both slots.

For the passive slot Lightspire Core from The Blinding Vale is probably the best, although the positional requirement makes it annoying.

For the on-use, you have a couple options - Freightrunner's Flask, Vile Vial Of Volatile Venom or Lustrous Golden Plumage from MR/AOF/KR respectively, all about as good as each other. Use sims to find what the best option for you is.

Cantrip Items

These are items with special effects or stats that come for free. These items are better than every alternative in the slot because some damage > no damage, and in some cases the effect is good enough that a lower ilvl item is still better.

All three available cantrip items drop from Ula’Tek, and they share the same effect: increase one stat by 6X and reduce all others by X:

• Gaze Of The Coiled Watcher - Haste (Helm)
• Aqirbane Reliquary - Crit (Necklace)
• Abyssal Broodfiend's Bardiche - Mastery (Weapon)

Since we don’t have a specific preference for any stat and the proc nets you more overall stats, all three are very good.

From Kith’ix:

• Chestwrap Of Palpable Terror - Shadow damage proc, buffed by Ula’tek items
• Band Of The Swarmcaller - Nature damage proc

In addition to the cantrip items with special effects, there are also a couple items that are higher ilvl than everything else in that slot (344 vs 334), and naturally you’ll want to get all of them:

• Silken Voodoo Drape - Cloak
• Sash Of The Forlorn Vessel - Belt
• Coiled Hex Legguards - Leggings
• Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique - Trinket
• Voracious Heart Of Ula'tek - Trinket

Going into 12.1, the best embellishment for us will likely continue to be Arcanoweave Lining, but things might change, as Blizzard is still working on tuning the new embellishments.

It's good to remember that embellishments in general are quite minor, so even if you don’t craft the best one it’s really not a big deal. Most of the power of crafts early comes from the item level bump.

First Crafts

By now if you don’t have any crafts and you haven’t acquired a myth track weapon, you should craft one immediately. If you don’t have the crests for 3 crafted items, you can put your embellishment on the weapon - Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt being the best one, however Arcanoweave Lining is better overall so as soon as you can, you should move to using two of those.

Don’t forget you can and should sim all of this through Raidbots droptimizer and topgear when making decisions.

BIS Crafts

Long term, you’ll want your crafts on lower stat budget slots like bracers & cloak, since you’ll have myth track items everywhere and crafted items are lower item-level than that.

Due to the 344 cloak available in this tier, we’ll be forced to move our second craft into a slightly higher stat budget slot - either gloves, shoulders or boots (technically belt as well, but there’s a 344 belt too).

Missives

You should always sim to find out what secondary stats are best to put on your crafted gear. This can be done via Topgear, where you can add items through the search bar and change the stats of crafted ones. Stats can also be changed through the little + icon on the item itself.

If you don’t want to bother with simming, the safe option is haste & mastery (Thalassian Missive Of The Feverflare).

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from week 2 of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Important: if you are able to kill Ula'tek Heroic, even if it’s not the first couple of weeks, you should highly consider taking bonus rolls from your first vaults and spending them on her in GUARDIAN loot spec.

By far the best items in the game come from that boss, and nothing you can get in vault comes close except a mythic Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique. If you get Guillotine, you should most likely take it.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

Mythic+ options:

But I cannot stress this enough - you should at the very least find a way to kill heroic Ula’tek and bonus roll every item from her in guardian loot spec. Every single item she drops is significantly better than everything else in that slot.

Eventually, if you do raid, after you’ve gotten everything from Heroic Ula’Tek, you can either spend rolls to fill missing myth track slots, or simply save for Mythic Ula’tek/Coiled Altar. Here’s a list of everything that you should acquire from the raid:

Ascendant Venomstones

Returning in Patch 12.1.5, the Ascendant Venomstone can be used to further increase the item level of fully-upgraded Weapons, Trinkets and Necklaces.

Once your item is ‘Ascendant Venomforged’ you will no longer be able to upgrade it. Items from Mythic Coiled Altar and Ula'tek will not be upgradable.

The upgrade priority is as follows:

Myth Track Weapon > Crafted Weapon > Trinkets > Necklace

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Feral Druid:

• Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: I’m personally going Rune Of Self-Mending, but you can go with either one here.
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering (no choice)
• Row 4: Probably Rune Of Burning Haste, but you’ll ideally want to sim this one because it’ll depend on your gear.
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.