Feral Druid Gearing Guide

Feral Druid Midnight Pre-Patch Tier Set:

For the Midnight prepatch, many of our previous tier-set effects from 11.2 have become core hero talents, and subsequently our tier sets have changed to generic damage amplifiers. You’ll still want to wear your 4-piece, but otherwise don’t need to spare any further thought to them.

You should still prioritize 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.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

As Feral, you always want to have 1 on-use stat trinket to use with your cooldowns. Your options this tier are as follows:

• Araz’s Ritual Forge - the overall best, however will be competitive obtaining it as it drops from Forgeweaver Araz in the raid.
• Unyielding Netherprism - potential to be quite strong in AOE, or if you can’t get Ritual Forge.
• Signet of the Priory - a relatively easy to obtain alternative for the M+ers.

For your second trinket, there are many viable options.

From raid you have:

• Astral Antenna - probably overall best, though there’s not much margin between a lot of trinkets.
• Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt - strong trinket though falls off a bit in AOE.

Dungeon:

• So’leah’s Secret Technique - great stat stick that is equally competitive with raid trinkets, just make sure you use it on an ally.
• Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj - also equally good as the rest.

However there are many other competitive choices, be sure to sim your trinkets to get a general idea of strength based on your character and stats (everyone will be slightly different!), both in patchwerk and dungeonslice.

For your first craft, you could wait until you clear some of the raid content and if you don’t loot a weapon, then Charged Halberd is a good pick with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension. However, if you do loot a weapon, instead look to craft item upgrades in non-tier slots.

If you exclusively play M+, then a weapon is a great first-choice for crafting.

The recommended embellishment that is great in all types of content is Duskthread Lining. Its best to craft on off-pieces (non-tier), you can initially craft wherever you can gain the biggest item-level upgrade, however long term the best two slots are wrist (Rune-Branded Armbands) and waist (Rune-Branded Waistband).

Key Items

Tier: Ultimately it doesn’t matter which 4 slots you choose for your tier, what’s important is acquiring it as quickly as you can; for your off-piece (5th slot not using tier) you can pick an item with whatever stats you need, determined by simming your character on raidbots.com.

As a Feral Druid, you do want a nice mix of all stats (though we still have some that are stronger than others like Mastery), and as a result what items are best for you will depend on what other gear you have.

Other Items of Interest:

• Weapon: Harvester’s Interdiction is our best-in-slot in 11.2, you should try farm it when M+ opens, and if you ever get a Mythic track version in your vault - prioritise grabbing it!
• Cloak: Needless to say, Reshii Wraps is a feature item of the patch and will be best-in-slot.
• Boots: Interloper’s Reinforced Sandals from raid empower your cloak.
• Ring: Band of the Shattered Soul - may be hard to obtain as will be a very competitive drop from the last drop from the raid, but offers some free damage mitigation.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

The priority for spending your Puzzling Cartel Chips is roughly as follows:

1. Araz’s Ritual Forge
2. Interloper’s Reinforced Sandals
3. Harvester’s Interdiction
4. Astral Antenna
5. Unyielding Netherprism (for M+)