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Growl

Growl
30 yd range

Instant	8 sec cooldown

Requires Druid
Requires level 8

Requires Bear Form
Taunts the target to attack you, and increases threat that you generate against the target for 3 sec.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

3 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Forms

Bear Form

Effect #1

Taunt

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Taunt
Value: 200

Flags

Cannot miss

Guides

Hunter DPS Guide
(Beast Mastery,
Marksmanship, Survival)

Overview of
Tanking and
All Tank Specs

Warlords of Draenor
Hunter Changes

Comments

Comment by Argus9

Taunt for Druids in Bear Form. Make sure to only use this to get a mob's attention which is attacking a party member, or else this ability is wasted.

Comment by radeox

Druids bears form version of the taunt. Always handy to save some healers or some gnomes!

Comment by Eskamo

for the love of everything sacred don't save the gnomes

Comment by samarium

It functions just like the Warrior's Taunt, which operates in the following manner:

1: sets your current threat equal to the highest player on the mob's threat list.
2: forces it to attack you.

As Taunt, Growl can be resisted by the mob, and certain mobs are also immune.

Comment by Ahuramazda

Growl originally had 5 yards range and 10 seconds cooldown. That was increased to 20 yards in the beginning of WotLK.
Increased further to 30 yards in patch 3.0.8, when the cooldown was also lowered to 8 secs.

The warrior Taunt got the same treatment.

Comment by Nazeka

Can proc "On hit" damage reflects such as lightning shield.
Is also considered magic damage, as a Moonraker in SFK was immune during the anti-magic shell. After looking at the school above, this makes no sense to me, could someone explain?

Comment by Senoinus

Some useful insight regarding the game-mechanics of a feral's growl abililty:

17% chance to miss, subjected to *spell* hit mechanics
1% reduction in chance to miss with spells at lvl80 = 26.23 hit rating

- With glyph + debuff (FF from balance druids or debuff from shadow priests):

17% - 8% (glyph) - 3% (debuff) = 6%

6% = 6 x 26.23 = 158 hit rating

- Without glyph, but with debuff:

17% - 3% = 14%

14% = 14 x 26.23 = 262.3 + 104.92 = 368 hit rating

- With glyph, without debuff:

11% = 11 x 26.23 = 262.3 + 26.3 = 289 hit rating

Hope this helps

Comment by Viperoth

I use this 'trick' in my druid when I tank heroics or other places with many mobs, when a trigger happy dps overaggros me and I cant find exactly wich mob is hitting him in the bulk.

I've found out that 80% of the time its the mobs that this dps-er is hitting with single target abilities (rather than aoe-ing wich is the other 20% ), so what I should do is target this dump player, assist him and then taunt this mob...

This is a lengthy procedure and I hate losing time... so I've made a macro for my tanking chars. "/use Growl" (or either Dark Command, Taunt or Hand of... damn forgot the name)

I tend to play many classes and roles so I'm familiar with the healbot addon. So I link the macro to the left click of the Healbot UI... Now all I have to do, when someone is has aggro (wich is obvious in a healing addon) is to click him and the taunt goes to his main target... works most of the time and if it doesnt, all I have to do this pesky tabbing to find the stray monster...

Before flaming I know HB is useless for warriors and DKs and I know there are better addons out there for tanking, but healbot is something a druid and a Paladin SHOULD be familiar with, so why learn another UI and load your RAM with more addons? Use what you have already :p

Comment by Scourgething

Druid used Growl!
Enemy's attack fell!

Comment by QuickBASIC37

Now immediately shifts you into Bear Form as well as taunting the target in the same GCD. This means a dps druids could keep this on their bars to save some of the more squishy DPS'ers.

Comment by SolidSnack

I just found a rather... smart use of it. However, it comes with a setback. Try making this macro:

#showtooltip Growl
/cast Rejuvenation
/cast Growl

This casts rejuvenation, then instantly reverts you back to bear form.
As you can guess, the setback is that your rage reverts to 10... You still keep savage defense and vengeance.
I need to try it out to see how practical it is. Any comments would be appreciated.

Edit: No longer works since Growl doesn't force you into bear form anymore.

Comment by Skillmare

With the change to taunt mechanics in 5.4, please note that you can use Growl in your rotation to increase threat generation by 200% for 3 seconds, even if you are currently tanking the boss or mob. (Of course, make sure you will not be needing taunt for another reason, such as adds on select fights.)

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