Feral Druid DPS Guide - Midnight

By Guiltyas Updated: 2026/08/10

Feral Druid OverviewFeral Druid Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Feral Druid Cheat Sheet Feral Druid Changes in 12.1Druid Changes

Matted Fur absorb increased by 25%.

Heart of the Wild empowered Wild Growth healing increased by 25%.

Shred and Cat Form Swipe damage increased by 10%.

Feral Changes

All damage dealt increased by 3%.

Rampant Ferocity damage increased by 25%.

Saber Jaws damage bonus increased to 60% per point (was 50%).

Focused Frenzy damage bonus reduced to 15% (was 20%).

Rip and Tear damage bonus increased to 20% (was 15%).

Chomp damage increased by 30%.

Apex Predator's Craving base chance to trigger reduced to 4% (was 5%).

Merciless Claws increases Shred and Swipe damage by 25% (was 20%).

Blood Spattered increases Ferocious Bite damage by 8% (was 2%), but maxes out at 6 stacks (was 10).

Taste for Blood increases Ferocious Bite damage by 16% (was 12%) and another 8% during Tiger's Fury (was 12%).

Rejuvenation healing increased by 25%.

Wild Growth healing increased by 25%.

Regrowth healing increased by 25%.

Cooldown Manager updated so elements show the "empowered" icon versions for instances of DoTs like Rake and Rip that have been enhanced by Tiger's Fury.

Merciless Claws and Rampant Ferocity have swapped positions in the talent tree.

Feral Druid Hero Talents: Wildstalker and Druid of the Claw Bloodseeker VinesFerocious BiteRavage

Throughput & Damage Profiles: Druid of the Claw is the strongest option for throughput in early gear. It has a very bursty damage profile and a fair chunk of randomness; when gear increases towards the end of tier, the two options are nearly indistinguishable.

Defense: Druid of the Claw is the clear winner for defensive value. Extra health, stronger Bear Form, and Dreadful Wound

Utility: Neither hero talent has strong utility options. Utility won't influence your choice between the two.

Playing a Feral Druid in

Avoid wasting resources: Energy specs have a finite number of resources for any set time period. It's fairly important to avoid wasting these resources, either through misuse of Tiger's Fury or natural overcapping.

Maintain debuffs: Almost all of our most efficient spells are debuffs, making it important to maintain as close to 100% uptime on them as possible.

Gearing a Feral Druid in Mastery > Haste = Critical Strike > VersatilityWildstalkerDruid of the ClawAgilityRaidbotsGreat Vault What Professions are Best for Feral Druid?LeatherworkingBest in Slot gear What Race is Best for Feral Druid?

Damage & Performance: Night Elf is currently the strongest Druid race due to Shadowmeld's utility and synergy with Pouncing Strikes.

Mythic+ & Utility: Night Elf is the best option by a large margin. You can use Shadowmeld to dodge abilities, drop combat, and deal extra damage, making this racial undeniably beneficial.

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Comments

Comment by 1856258

Displacer Beast and Elune's Guidance were mixed up! Aside from the small mistake it's a great guide i found very handy! Thanks for writing it! :D

Comment by Hezkezl

The WeakAuras links go to a dead page :( https://www.wowhead.com/guides/feral-druid-weakauras

Comment by teefay420

This guide is linked as THE feral guide, but is only for Alliance.
Look at Basic Information and Racials.

Comment by Morphire

Berserk - has been redesigned, it now grants stealth affects to your abilities and grants a 20% chance per Combo Point spent to refund a Combo Point when you cast a finisher.

Does this mean that rake will now stun as it would stealth like in WOD?

Comment by wolf391

I find Blood Talons is now totally crap $%^&. I would suggest they change it so it procs when you use 12 energy generating abilities within 0.2 seconds. What an @#$%^&* redesign !@#$. Excuse the language. I'm totally underwhelmed by all the changes. I'd rather have the druid buff ability back, THAT at least was a hallmark of druids. And forget all the other changes, they dont do anything for me. Feral druid was at least marginally PVE playable b4 the patch. Now it just hurst to play it again. *u** y** blizzard. <A very unhappy customer>

Comment by vncnt

The best about the spec in its current state is the title picture of this guide.

Thanks for the writeup. <3

Comment by Jadayn

Thank you so very much for these guides! I have been searching everywhere for a full guide since Shadowlands came out. The comprehensiveness that went into these guides is excellent material and I am very grateful that you and your colleagues put these together for us WoW players. KUDOS to the individuals and authors for their due diligence in researching and giving us players information that is very useful!

Comment by mybelovedchaos

Love the header image <3

Comment by RazzzzeK

My dude you somehow managed to write all of this without having a single clue as to how to play the game in anything not raid related apparently. Hope to never see you in a m+ again!

Comment by Scaryfox

I want to be thankful there's a guide, and I've got nothing against Night Elves. (In fact, I feel sorry for them.) However, they're no longer the only Alliance option for druids yet this guide seems heavily biased. That's because I've read that Worgen make better Feral/Restoration Druids. Same thing with the trolls.

Of course, I now take that with a grain of salt. Not only will racials not save you from being a bad player or situation, I've noticed that I don't have too much trouble on are Hunters, and as much as I love them, I'd rather not to be pigeonholed into playing them. Still, I'm just glad that other people are raising the issue, though.

Comment by Raelgar

The guide has small errors, I believe it is due to a small lack of attention.

I suggest just updating some parts of the guide:

In the gear segment in Mythic+ Best in Slot, there are two identical weapons that drop from the same dungeon instead of having an alternate weapon different from the one shown.
The Arachnid Cipher Ring drop is saying it's from Mists, it's just not, it drops from Plaguefall.
I found the rotation explanation a bit confusing. Several times I stopped here and gave up, I went to look for another site/guide to get better information about rotation and equipment.

I know how difficult it is to create guides and adjust them, but I believe that a few small adjustments are worth it. Hugs and thanks for the guide!

Comment by Parsemyass

buff feral druid for season 4, why are guardian druids, and feral druids, doing almost the same damage in aoe? and then feral being extra mid for single target? BUFF RIP and PRIMAl WRATH

Comment by duffdog7576

Laughed my ass off to the cat, was not expecting that lol

Comment by Manthela

My Feral druid looks NOTHING like the one pictured at the top of this guide. Where can I get that mog?

Comment by bigity

10.1.5 changes section is referencing Rampant Ferocity in places where it should reference Dire Fixation.

Comment by ThatLukewalker

This doesn't actually look updated for 10.2?

Comment by Cragon

I don't get it. You say the secondary stats are crit/mastery but you gem and enchant haste/mastery. Why?

Comment by jcam

Please don't ever change the header image, it is THE best thing on all of Wowhead.

Comment by christhekiller

A melee spec on a class that also has a ranged DPS spec, Healer, and a Tank.

why are you trying to pass of hybridity as a weakness? this isnt 2005, being a hybrid is a benefit not a detriment.

Feral Druid DPS Guide - Midnight

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