Druid Feral viable on raid for DPS ?

[Ardeith]

You will have hard time to got a decent dps as a feral druid. Thats for sure.

But if you have the time and the patience, you can be a really a good dps and the best offtank in the game.
The issue with feral dps is that you have to know all theorycraft about it because there are tricky stuff that dont make much sense at first if you compare to other gameplay classes.

As Aquane mentioned it, shapeshifting is the best dps potential of a feral dps due to the talent and the helmet that can give you up to 60 free energy per shifting ( but it cost mana, so here goes the 2k mana flask and the farm for mana potion / rune ). It makes the gameplay much more complex and totally different from other classes, it also allow different ways to manage your mana pool but it requires some macro to be really effective.

+ damage weapon gear doesn't make sense as a feral does not use his weapon but this make feral dps going sky high.
It is simple, +9 damage on your 2 hand weapon and a +8 from the weight stone, for a total of +17 = +17 dps in cat form = +238 Attackpower only ( this is pretty epic ).

A feral can easily beat a lot of classes in dps, during pre raid gear and early raid progression due to that.

The major problem is that you wont see progression in your dps until AQ gear, as BWL and MC gear are not really cat oriented. Other classes will see their dmg going up a lot during the MC / BWL progression, and yours will stay the same.
There is also the glancing blow problem that you cant solve that will limit you white dps.

Beside all that almost nobody know shit about feral potential as this is so mess up and require a lot of commitment. So you wont get a room easily in a raid guild.
But it really shines in early raid progression, offtanking and when you start getting AQ gear.

So if you seek challenge, you wont get bored to play as feral dps ( not like other classes, @spamming frostbolt ) as it require a lot of time and effort to reach its potential. And the gameplay is unique in its own way !

[Netherfrost]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0BGh3GuGhs

Feral dps hype

[Ardeith]

So sad he is 23th xD

But it shows the gameplay style !

[Floux]

Some fun videos :

Onyxia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-J1RscxpBI
ZG : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSC8jp5Q2qw
Many other: https://www.youtube.com/user/tbuksuperfly/videos

[Patience]

As DPS, no.

As Tank, possibly. And that's mainly cause 3% crit to party members does add up and they can get 1 warrior tank less.

[Beabington]

As DPS, no.

As Tank, possibly. And that's mainly cause 3% crit to party members does add up and they can get 1 warrior tank less.

no

[showtime]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0BGh3GuGhs

Feral dps hype

tehats when feenix had no debuff limit or it was really big like 40

he was using both bleeds

[tephas]

As DPS, no.

As Tank, possibly. And that's mainly cause 3% crit to party members does add up and they can get 1 warrior tank less.

no

[iheartbenben]

I don't perceive druids as others do, namely Jack of all trades, master of none bit (inferior rogue). His feral form gives him more versatility in terms of gameplay. Long story short, the purpose of playing any class is to have fun first of all, so if you like feral, play a feral. I'm certain you will find raids despite it.
I'll raid as subtlety/combat just to spite the elitists.

No decent guild will take a feral druid, lol. Feral is shit until like AQ40 mace and some other gear and even then it's still pretty bad.

Also combat is like bis for vanilla so...?

Don't listen to anything this bud says, OP.

You're very uninformed.

A feral tank makes Jindo, for example, a one tank fight.

If you expect this to be exactly like 2006, you're going to be in for a lot rage.

[Moxey]

I don't perceive druids as others do, namely Jack of all trades, master of none bit (inferior rogue). His feral form gives him more versatility in terms of gameplay. Long story short, the purpose of playing any class is to have fun first of all, so if you like feral, play a feral. I'm certain you will find raids despite it.
I'll raid as subtlety/combat just to spite the elitists.

No decent guild will take a feral druid, lol. Feral is shit until like AQ40 mace and some other gear and even then it's still pretty bad.

Also combat is like bis for vanilla so...?

Don't listen to anything this bud says, OP.

You're very uninformed.

A feral tank makes Jindo, for example, a one tank fight.

If you expect this to be exactly like 2006, you're going to be in for a lot rage.

Being viable for a single boss in the entire game is not very good.