Note: Some aspects of this guide may not apply to your character until higher level. If are interested in getting your character to max level quickly, take a look at this leveling guide.
Glyphs come in three varieties, Prime, Major and Minor. Prime glyphs enhance core aspects of your class and generally provide the greatest benefit of the three types.
Major Glyphs, while not quite as powerful as Prime Glyphs, are still useful and continue to provide a myriad of benefits.
Minor Glyphs often times provide small quality of life improvements or visual changes, such as the Glyph of Shadow Form for priests which makes the character more visible through Shadow Form. However, a few are known to provide more significant benefits such as the warrior glyph of Berserker Rage.
Prime Glyphs:
Major Glyphs:
Minor Glyphs:
Here are your highest priority abilities.
To maximize your DPS, keep the faerie fire armor debuff effect active at all times. Attack priority is to keep your variety of Bleed DoT effects active, while also using self-buffing effects such as Tiger’s Fury whenever possible and Ferocious Bite when nothing else is needed at that moment.
Cooldowns
The most important aspect of managing your cooldowns as a damage dealer is making certain to use them whenever they’re avaliable. Don’t be afraid to use them during any fight, even against trash mobs, as the higher the uptime you have with them, the greater your overall damage will be so long as you aren’t using them when a fight is about to end.
The only time to hold off on using your cooldowns is when you’ll be unable to attack the boss due to fight mechanics, such as during Morchok’s Black Blood of the Earth ability or when Hagara is about to cast Water Shield and become immune to all damage.
Melee DPS will have to watch out for this more than ranged, as they are far more vulnerable to situations where an encounter requires constant movement or the boss is utilizing some form of AoE attack that makes fighting in melee range impossible.
Agility > Mastery > Critical > Haste > 26 Expertise > 8% Melee Hit
Agility:
Your primary attribute as a feral combat Druid, Agility increases damage (attack power) and critical strike chance.
Mastery – Razor Claws:
Cat Form Feral Combat mastery increases all damage done by bleed abilities.
Critical:
Critical rating increases your chance of a critical strike.
Haste:
Haste increases attack speed and energy regeneration.
(26) Expertise:
Expertise reduces the chance for your attacks to be dodged or parried. An expertise rating of 26 makes it so that your attacks will never be dodged while you are behind the target.
(8%) Hit Rating:
Hit rating reduces the chance of your attacks missing. A hit rating of 8% removes the possibility that special attacks, or yellow damage as opposed to the white damage of regular attacks, will miss your target.
Reforging
When reforging gear, it’s important that you look to reforge from your least effective stat into the most effective for whatever gear goal you are currently aiming for. See our stat priority list for more information.
Mastery > Haste
For a DPS Feral Druid, the most important stats to reforge into are Mastery and Haste. Maximize them by reforging into either stat on any piece of gear that lacks one of these stats.
Gems
- Yellow – Adept Ember Topaz – Deft Ember Topaz
- Blue – Glinting Demonseye
- Red – Delicate Inferno Ruby
- Meta – Agile Shadowspirit Diamond
Unless a socket bonus offers agility, it’s more effective to gem for pure agility and ignore the bonus.
Enchants
- 2H Weapon: Enchant Weapon – Mighty Agility
- Helm: Arcanum of Ramkahen
- Shoulders: Greater Inscription of Shattered Crystal
- Cloak: Enchant Cloak – Major Agility
- Chest: Enchant Chest – Peerless Stats
- Bracers: Enchant Bracer – Agility
- Gloves: Enchant Gloves – Greater Mastery
- Belt: Ebonsteel Belt Buckle
- Leggings: Dragonscale Leg Armor
- Boots: Enchant Boots – Lavawalker
Our class guides for whichever class you’re playing:
Death Knights – Druid – Hunter – Mage – Paladin
Priest – Rogue – Shaman – Warlock – Warrior
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