Feral Druid Midnight Stats, Races and Consumables Guide

Stat Ranking

The only general rule that can be followed is that agility > secondaries, which means that item level is (almost) always more important than “better” secondaries. To be optimal, all gearing decisions should be made through sims.

Secondary Stats

Critical Strike: Increases the chance for any hit to deal double damage. This is a stat for us due to Primal Fury, giving us 2 Combo Points when a builder crits. Additionally, Chomp will deal triple damage if it crits.

Haste: Increases your energy generation, tick rate of bleeds (or simply: bleed damage) and attack speed (which increases the frequency of Omen of Clarity procs & Ravage procs for Druid of the Claw)

Mastery: Increases the damage dealt by your Bleeds and Finishers. Affected abilities can be found here: Mastery: Razor Claws.

Versatility: Increases your damage done and decreases your damage taken.

Feral has no particular breakpoint for any stat that you should aim for. All four secondary stats are good for us and as such, there is no stat priority that can be followed. Changing one item can totally flip your stat priorities, so the traditional idea of “just stack X” can lead you astray.

Feral is in a bit of a special situation in that there’s a race whose Racial provides us with a significant dps boost through Pouncing Strikes Rake & re-enabling Killing Strikes - that being Night Elf with Shadowmeld. It is around 1% better than all alternatives.

If you do not care about this, every other race is pretty much within 0.1% of each other, so you should just decide based on what you think looks the coolest.

And if you want to be the most optimal, but are locked to Horde, Troll is the current best option, with Tauren typically taking over towards the end of expansions when we have more stats (and more crit).

Throughput (damage) - these are the generally best options, however for rings and weapon you should always sim your own character:

Chest: Enchant Chest - Mark Of The Worldsoul

Legs: Forest Hunter's Armor Kit

Rings: Enchant Ring - Eyes Of The Eagle

Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Acuity Of The Ren'dorei

Tertiaries - the choice between Avoidance and Leech is mostly personal - you will get similar value out of both:

Head: Enchant Helm - Empowered Rune Of Avoidance or Enchant Helm - Empowered Hex Of Leeching

Shoulder: Enchant Shoulders - Amirdrassil's Grace or Enchant Shoulders - Silvermoon's Mending

Boots: Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Always use: Indecipherable Eversong Diamond - main stat gems are very powerful and you should always have one. Indecipherable is the best since the crit damage effect on Powerful Eversong Diamond is much weaker than the extra 9 agility.

As for the remaining gems, it is best to sim your character. If you don’t want to bother, then going Flawless Masterful Peridot or Flawless Quick Amethyst is relatively safe. The former provides better buffs from Loa Worshiper's Band if you’re using that.

Flasks: Highest simming between Flask Of The Magisters, Flask Of The Blood Knights, Flask Of Thalassian Resistance, Flask Of The Shattered Sun (default is Magisters)

Potions: Light's Potential, or if you’re feeling risky, Draught Of Rampant Abandon which provides more stats but drops a puddle that silences you if you stay in it

Food: Any main-stat feast, default is Harandar Celebration

Health Potions: Silvermoon Health Potion

Weapon Oil: Thalassian Phoenix Oil (~0.2% better than Refulgent Whetstone)

Runes: Void-Touched Augment Rune

You can sim these by pasting your /simc into an advanced sim, then under that copy paste the entirety of https://www.dreamgrove.gg/static/sims/foodandflask.txt , click on “convert to profilesets” and you’re ready to sim.