Feral Druid Gearing Guide

Feral Druid tier sets:

• 2-set: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate a Winning Streak! increasing the damage of your Ferocious Bite, Rip, and Primal Wrath by 3% stacking up to 10 times. Ferocious Bite, Rip, and Primal Wrath have a 15% chance to remove Winning Streak!. Free Ferocious Bites are exempt from this chance.
• 4-set: When you consume Apex Predator’s Craving, become a Big Winner, dealing (800% of Attack power) Physical damage to Apex Predator's primary target and increasing the damage of your periodic effects by 16% for 6 sec.

The new tier sets offers a gambling theme for all classes, and in terms of RNG, Feral is particularly up there in terms of randomness having a big impact on your damage. Not only does Winning Streak! have layers of RNG, but the 4pc increasing the RNG we already had through Apex Predator’s Craving, with procs now contributing to a greater portion of our damage.

Overall though the set remains rather passive in terms of gameplay, and you are completely fine completely ignoring it and playing normally.

The main shake-up the set offers is an adjusted damage profile, with Rip gaining a moderate amount of damage, meaning snapshotting matters slightly more, and potential for large gains in uncapped AOE via Primal Wrath. In addition, we gain a funnel-heavy damage profile through the 4pc buffs to Apex Predator’s Craving, which is always a useful damage-profile to offer your group, especially in M+, but it may also increase Feral’s opportunities in raids with adds.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Key Items

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.

Trinkets

House of Cards: best on-use trinket, however if you can’t obtain this from raid then Signet of the Priory is a competitive alternative.

As for secondary trinkets, Eye of Kezan or Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker are typically the two best for raid. The pacemaker should line up with your CDs, however if you have to hold or delay CDs it can become unsynced and lose value, so that’s something for you to factor in per fight and especially in M+ (probably skip the pacemaker in M+ unless you have nothing better).

Mechano-Core Amplifier and Suspicious Energy Drink are great alternative if you can’t obtain the above two trinkets.

Other Items

Weapon: Best-in-Slots from One-Armed Bandit. You should still prioritise item level for weapons, so if you don’t raid Mythic then you will have to look to M+ vault or crafting.

Ring: The Jastor Diamond from Chrome King Gallywix if you can obtain it.

Also note that Cyrce’s Circlet remains BIS this tier with: Stormbringer's Runed Citrine, Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine, and Windsinger's Runed Citrine.

Cyrce’s Circlet: Stormbringer's Runed Citrine, Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine, and Windsinger's Runed Citrine

Embellishments & Crafted Gear

If you are raiding, I would recommend holding off crafting until you’ve cleared One-Armed Bandit for a chance at Best-in-Slots, depending on how much competition there is in your raid for the weapon. This is our BIS weapon and getting it in Heroic week 1 is a huge gain and allows you to craft other items. The first boss on Mythic should generally be quite easy for most guild where you can also loot a Mythic weapon.

As per the seasonal theme of gambling, it’s really up to you if you want to risk trying to loot a weapon and gaining a moderate advantage in terms of crafting efficiency.

If you want the safe option, or if you are a M+ player, then just craft Charged Halbert with Darkmoon Ascension, same as last patch.

Otherwise Dawnthread Lining is your go-to craft for raid and M+, prioritising it on lower value slots initially such as bracers or cloak, or whatever gives you the biggest upgrade.