wrong. you don't stay in bear form unless you have to. outside of battles shift back to caster form. only when everyone's ready for the pull do you shift into bear, enrage, and get the rage jumpstart you need to maintain aggro.

you should see how sick furor + feral charge is in pvp. you can charge someone immediately after shifting into bear form with the free rage you gain. non feral druids also put 5 points into furor for the free bash.


i don't see what your problem is. it's not like you lose all your mana when you shift. you should just shift as needed. when your party is starting to lose control, just remember that you still have those healing and res skills.

a few patches ago bear form was actually good for normal grinding, but the 2.0.10 patch nerfed bear form damage to oblivion :\

seriously, at lv70 the improved stats from Improved mark of the wild is a joke.


you stay in bear form while marking?

ah, sorry for not answering the OP's question, my attention was obviously elsewhere

pre-outland feral itemization sucks, and you won't have much choice anyway, but in those rare cases that you do, top priority goes to stamina, 2nd to strength. stamina helps in more ways than one, since bear form now gets the extra hp from it rather than multiplying your total hp(which used to give you more hp!), and when you get Improved Leader of the Pack(at 42 i think) that heals you for a % of your total hp, more hp means more heals per crit.

strength because Heart of the Wild increases your strength in cat form by 20%.

This post has been edited by nub: Mar 29 2007, 04:00 PM

oh stop taking everything so personally, you're not that special!

i rarely do any marking either, but being tank i usually decide when to start the pull; always helps to have initial aggro on the tank.

improved motw just sucks so much post-tbc it deserves a revision by bliz. a lot of feral talents were revised in the before the storm patch(some were nerfed again later, those bastards!), but improved motw didn't get any love.

a higher sustained dps with a higher AP is preferable over lower AP but with slightly higher crit %.

don't worry though, most leather with +str will also have +agi(especially the leather quest rewards in outland!), so you'll still have plenty of crit and dodge.