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. If you don’t raid, the next best choice will be Lustrous Golden Plumage from King’s Rest.

As for your second, passive trinket, Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique pulls ahead due to the higher ilvl its available at, with Gebbo's Bottomless Bag following shortly behind it.

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

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.

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

As is the case for most classes, weapon item level is incredibly important for us as well. This means crafting a 331 weapon early will definitely be the biggest upgrade you can get. However, with the early availability of Nebulous Voidcore (bonus rolls) in 12.1, you have access to myth track items through +10s or heroic raid, which means you’re guaranteed to have a 334 weapon a lot sooner than in the past. Still, it's a consideration between immediate, short-term power in the first few weeks versus crafting your long-term bis option and not worrying about it later.

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, you should highly consider bonus rolling on it. The cantrip effects on the items are worth noticeably more than a random 6/6m item from a mythic boss, even with the saved crests in mind.

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

Mythic+ options:

Victor's Flashfrozen Blade is the recommended weapon because Den’s loot pool only has 6 items. Depending on your situation, it might be better to target Toxin-Coated Warstaff in Altar of Fangs, as there’s only one extra item there, but also two decent trinkets. Alternatively, you could go straight to King’s Rest, since if you don’t raid, you’ll likely want a myth Lustrous Golden Plumage anyway. It’s a highly circumstantial choice.

If you do raid mythic, there’s quite a bit you can get. The following are all items available at higher ilvl (9/6 of track), making them very valuable. In 12.1, bonus rolls jump to the first step of the next upgrade track - meaning rolling in heroic raid will give you a 1/6 myth item, however it is still unclear how this will work for the items from Coiled Altar and Ula’Tek. As such, I recommend waiting a bit before spending your rolls unless you know what you’re doing.

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.