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Bear Form

Bear Form

7.4% of base mana
Instant
Requires Druid
Requires level 8

Shapeshift into Bear Form, increasing armor by 250% and Stamina by 20%.

Guardian (Level 10)
Also reduces all magical damage taken by 10%, reduces the chance the Druid will be critically hit by 6%, and reduces the chance for attacks to be parried by 3%

Increases threat generation, protects the caster from Polymorph effects, and allows the use of various bear abilities.

The act of shapeshifting frees the caster of movement impairing effects.

Empowered Bear Form (Level 92+)
Bear Form grants you an additional 10% Stamina.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

7.4% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Shapeshift (Bear Form)

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Polymorphed)

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Mod Base Resistance - % (Physical)
Value: 250%

Effect #4

Apply Aura: ?? (Aura #416) (11)
Value: 100
Affected Spells:

	Frenzied Regeneration		Mangle		Thrash
	Maul		Lacerate

Effect #5

Apply Aura: ?? (Aura #417) (11)
Value: 100
Affected Spells:

	Thrash		Mangle		Frenzied Regeneration
	Lacerate		Savage Defense		Maul

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Feral Druid Guide

Warlords of Draenor
Druid Changes

Comments

Comment by Txero33

Wearing cloth armor will drastically hurt your bear armor.

Wearing gear with extra armor on it is a great idea. (i.e. Rings, weapons, exceptionally high armored pieces, etc.)

Comment by soultwister

I just passed level 10 with my druid (now i'm 12). With selfmade Embossed and similar level of leatherworking armor parts i've got arround 1000 armor whitch is much more than a typical Warrior, with extra stamina HP is 512 on that level. So druid is quite better in this part, but while shapeshifted you will still lack threat generating skills, so tell all your party mates to give you a few seconds to build aggro, and try not to attack "red level" monsters, they will resist your Growl, and hit you to hard to build aggro without healing. I mentained a level 12 elite while on 10, so it's possible, but really hard, as monsters will resist your taunt often.

Comment by christiaan39

how do you transform into a boar?
i just past 10( im am lvl 11) but i dont know how to trans into o boar..
can anybody help me plz.?

Comment by gigaboost

People keep calling it "beer form" for some reason.

Comment by Toldry

UNTAMABLE

Comment by pelf

Druids in Cat Form, Bear Form, Travel Form or Aquatic Form, are treated as Beasts, and thus are susceptible to Hunters' . Also, they will not show up on Track Humanoids but will show up on Track Beasts.
Druids in Incarnation: Tree of Life are treated as Elementals and thus are susceptible to Banish and .

EDIT: For patch accuracy. Thanks for the responses.

~~Druids in Cat, Bear, Dire Bear, Travel or Aquatic form, due to not being humanoid anymore, cannot be sapped.~~

Comment by mohammadrastin

i am druid lvl 10 but trainer not training bear form{shapeshift}
how can learn bear form{shape shift}

Comment by Madnez

It is a Realy Good PvP form, But they can't use pots and that is sad.

Comment by Lonahar

but who will pvp in tree form?

Comment by Zeldendorf

Still can't sap tree of life :P

Comment by Dragonskull1111

The druid bear/cat forms are getting a new "skin" in patch 3.2. Blizzard already released a picture of the new bear form skins here and here.

Comment by Suzaku

In patch 3.2, the appearance of druid bear and cat forms will be redesigned, with five different color schemes to chose from, based on the druid's hair (night elf) or skin (tauren) color.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/druid-forms.html

Comment by Alanth55

Bare Durids 4 Tank!

Comment by SidohtheMage

this form has the strength to tank 5 GORILLAS

Comment by Reapper

troll druid forms moonkin cat and bear are gonna be something like this http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs48/f/2009/230/6/1/Troll_Druid_Forms_by_Kanaru92.jpg

Comment by dreadblood

holy shi- those are awsome!

Comment by vlapport

Did anyone else notice that the picture had 5 paws while the form itself only has 4? :P

Comment by loik

Dire bear form no longer exists in Cata.
Now Bear form scales with level.

Comment by Cer0

Worgen and Troll feral forms.

The link added by Reapper almost a year ago it's pretty accurate.

Comment by RyotaBearpaw

I just submitted several screenshots for bothe the Troll and Worgen Bear forms since thier are hardly any yet posted. I did use hair color referance in classifying each bear and they are labled as i saw them on my computer. (*note for Worgens the color hair you have in your human side determines your form color, and is difficult to change the color since you have to be in Worgen side to use the barber's. the colors are as followed going right starting with: black, Brown, Pale Tan, Red, and last a Golden Blonde)

i know most people wont care but for those people like me that do i hope thes screenshots and information helps :)

Comment by Deathsaber

Bare druid is B 4 tank, they doesn't have guns in HED though lol!
Wowwiki Alamo page

Comment by Sas148

No more quest to get this. Instead, you learn it at a trainer at level 15. Kind of sad that they removed the questline, I thought it was cool. It made you feel like you were really gaining a powerful ability :)

Comment by VioletD

Despite of this being the form to tank with, in BC and WotLK content this is the form to go if you want to level fast as feral.

Altho Catform is the DPS form, it takes a while for it's damage to build up - while the health the mobs have favor burst over dots.

Therefor, you can 2-3 shot mobs in Bearform, while you take around twice or thrice the amount of time to kill em in Catform.

Not to mention the ability to pull groups of 10-15 and AoEing them down thanks to Savage Defense.

Comment by seahen

OK, Sum durids is bare. Tehm whos bare durids, can B 4 tank.

Comment by Phyto911

http://www.wowhead.com/npc=12678#.

http://www.wowhead.com/npc=17827#.

-view in 3D option= NE and Tauren animations :D

Comment by Nazarene83

OKAY GUYS IMA BE NICE AND GIVE YOU THE ULTIMATE MACRO'S FOR BEAR TANKING IN MISTS OF PANDARIA 5.1
THESE MACRO'S WILL MAXIMIZE YOUR RAGE GENERATION, ACTIVE MITIGATION, AND DAMAGE ALL WITH 1 BUTTON
ENJOY

MACRO 1 AOE

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=nocombat swipe, thrash, swipe, mangle
/cast savage defense

MACRO 2 SINGLE TARGET

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=nocombat mangle, lacerate, thrash, lacerate
/cast savage defense

pls upvote if u like it

Comment by Fiammata

First time tank here, so BEAR with me...

Comment by ceasure

The stamina increase has been boosted from 20% to a whopping 40% in patch 5.4 ptr, let's hope that it sticks.

Comment by Ghawn

It's getting nerfed in WoD down to 180% stamina :( There's a druid perk raising the stamina 10% more though, but the armor won't be increased.

The perk for this is Empowered Bear Form... I just hope Blizzard releases a glyph to make this better as it used to be.

Comment by Eido

Blizzard answering questions about Shapeshift forms, Blizzcon 2014 (source):

"In shapeshift form could it be a real animal roar?"
You want a roar for each specific animal?
"No but if you do a /roar, you sound like a Troll or something."
Noted. Good idea.

I hope for this! Like the Worgen form roar vs the Human roar, it must be possible!

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