Advanced M+ Feral Druid Guide for Midnight Season 1 — Transcript

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1. 0:00What's up guys? My name's Skull and
2. 0:03today I'll be doing a quick advanced
3. 0:05guide on feral druid for mythic plus.
4. 0:08Let's get right into it.
5. 0:10This guide is going to be covering
6. 0:11talents, cooldowns, priorities, builders
7. 0:15and finishers, what buffs and procs to
8. 0:18track, how to correctly use defensives
9. 0:20and utility, and just some macros that I
10. 0:23use that help out.
11. 0:24The first thing I'm going to be going
12. 0:25over in this guide is going to be
13. 0:27talents.
14. 0:28Now there's not really a best talent
15. 0:29build. It's more It's more so like which
16. 0:32talents feel better for you because
17. 0:35there's not really a DPS difference
18. 0:37between most of them.
19. 0:39Um so these first two talents that I'm
20. 0:41going to be going over is going to be
21. 0:42the choice between tireless energy and
22. 0:45double clawed rake. Like I mentioned
23. 0:47before, there's not really much of a DPS
24. 0:49difference between the two. Um but if
25. 0:52you're noticing that you're kind of bad
26. 0:54at managing energy or you're always
27. 0:56feeling energy starved, I'd highly
28. 0:58recommend trying out tireless energy if
29. 1:01you haven't.
30. 1:02And if you prefer to press rake and
31. 1:04spread rake, like priority rake over
32. 1:06pressing swipe, I would definitely run
33. 1:09double clawed rake cuz that just makes
34. 1:10your life 10 times easier.
35. 1:12The next talents we're going over are
36. 1:14going to be sudden ambush, savage fury,
37. 1:16wild slashes, panther's gaze, blood
38. 1:18spattered, and infected wounds.
39. 1:21You can only choose three of these and
40. 1:23I'll explain which ones I recommend
41. 1:25shortly.
42. 1:27Now once again, I want to clarify you
43. 1:29can run any combination of these three,
44. 1:32but if you're doing keys,
45. 1:35mythic plus keystones, I rec I do
46. 1:37recommend running savage fury and sudden
47. 1:40ambush cuz I think these are the best
48. 1:42two out of the six.
49. 1:44Now out of the last four in this
50. 1:46section, the one I do not recommend
51. 1:48running is blood spattered. Um I think
52. 1:50it's pretty bait
53. 1:51and I thought it was good at the
54. 1:52beginning of the expansion, played some
55. 1:55with it, and it's kind of just a waste
56. 1:56of a talent to be honest. Like, do not
57. 1:58put your talent point into that. Now,
58. 2:00finally, it is
59. 2:02between Wild Slashes, Panther's Guile,
60. 2:04or Infected Wounds for the last talent
61. 2:06point. And, uh
62. 2:08personally, I've never ran Panther's
63. 2:09Guile before in keys. Um if you're
64. 2:12struggling in single target, maybe
65. 2:13that'd be a viable option for you since
66. 2:15it's a very good raid talent.
67. 2:17Um Wild Slashes is just more swipe
68. 2:18damage. Infected Wounds is more rake
69. 2:20damage overall. So, if you're if you
70. 2:22know, if if you spam swipe,
71. 2:24um and you don't spread rake at all,
72. 2:26really, Wild Slashes is probably a good
73. 2:28good pick for you. Um if you're
74. 2:30spreading rake a lot more,
75. 2:32I would definitely try Infected Wounds.
76. 2:34And, Infected Wounds also helps out with
77. 2:36uh single target, too. So, you don't
78. 2:38have to run Panther's Guile just for
79. 2:39single target. Like, Infected Wounds is
80. 2:41is a big part of that, too.
81. 2:43Now, once we get to the bottom part of
82. 2:45the tree, this is where we have to
83. 2:46choose between Carnivorous Instinct,
84. 2:48Ashmane's Guidance, Hunger for Battle,
85. 2:50and then you have to choose between
86. 2:52either Rip and Tear or Vein Ripper,
87. 2:54which are on the same talent node over
88. 2:56there on the right. Before we get into
89. 2:57which ones I would pick, um you can only
90. 3:00choose two out of four of these, and I'm
91. 3:02going to go right into the Vein Ripper
92. 3:04versus Rip and Tear. So, between these
93. 3:07two, I prefer Vein Ripper, and I think
94. 3:10it's not even a pre- This is like one of
95. 3:11the talents where it's like
96. 3:13it's a preference, but if you're not
97. 3:15using one over the other, then I mean
98. 3:17it's a
99. 3:19I don't know. I just think Vein Ripper's
100. 3:21better in every single scenario.
101. 3:23Um and my reasoning for that is because
102. 3:27the longer your rip is up,
103. 3:29the more bites you're going to get off
104. 3:30before you have to refresh your bleeds.
105. 3:33Um
106. 3:34more bites equals more unseen procs,
107. 3:37more
108. 3:38every like, you know, just more damage
109. 3:40in general. Um
110. 3:42Now, Rip and Tear
111. 3:43is viable. You can use that if you want
112. 3:46um in keys like Algeth'ar where there's
113. 3:47huge pulls, but even then, I feel like
114. 3:50getting more bites in on big pulls
115. 3:52rather than having to refresh so often
116. 3:55is I don't know. It's just not worth it
117. 3:57sometimes in my opinion.
118. 3:59But you can play either or. I just
119. 4:01recommend Vein Ripper.
120. 4:02All right. Now putting Rip and Tear and
121. 4:04Vein Ripper aside, we have Carnivorous
122. 4:07Instinct, Ashmane's Guidance, and Hunger
123. 4:10for Battle.
124. 4:12And to be honest,
125. 4:14um
126. 4:15I recommend talenting out of Ashmane's
127. 4:17Guidance if you're noticing that your
128. 4:19Convoke is
129. 4:20frequently desyncing from your berserk.
130. 4:23Um
131. 4:25Now if you want to run Ashmane's
132. 4:26Guidance, you can. I just don't prefer
133. 4:29it in higher keys cuz I notice it
134. 4:30desyncs more.
135. 4:31Um Ashmane's Guidance actually causes us
136. 4:34to have like proc more Feral Frenzies or
137. 4:36Frenetic Frenzies throughout the
138. 4:37dungeon. So if you enjoy that,
139. 4:39you do that. That's a totally personal
140. 4:42preference. I just prefer to not have my
141. 4:45my uh cooldowns desync like that.
142. 4:47And last but not least, um we have
143. 4:51Carnivorous Instinct and Hunger for
144. 4:53Battle left. Now Hunger for Battle is
145. 4:54better for those like really big AoE
146. 4:56dungeons.
147. 4:57Um let's say like like Pit of Saron, um
148. 5:00Magister's Terrace. I mean you can run
149. 5:01it in in every key if you'd like. Like I
150. 5:04run it in most keys. The only key I do
151. 5:05not run it in is Skyreach because
152. 5:07Skyreach does not have a lot of big
153. 5:09pulls.
154. 5:10Um so that's when I would put talent
155. 5:12point in either AG or Carnivorous
156. 5:15Instinct in this scenario. When it comes
157. 5:17to my personal preference, I put it in
158. 5:20Carnivorous Instinct.
159. 5:21Could be different for you. Could be
160. 5:23different for everybody. It It's really
161. 5:24not that much of a difference. It sh-
162. 5:26It's just based on how it feels, you
163. 5:27know?
164. 5:28This last portion of the talent section
165. 5:30is going to be between our two options
166. 5:32we have for our hero talents. We have
167. 5:35Tear Down the Mighty or Strike for the
168. 5:37Heart.
169. 5:38Strike for the Heart is better in every
170. 5:40case except if you're running Ashmane's
171. 5:42Guidance.
172. 5:43Then Tear Down the Mighty becomes the
173. 5:45better option.
174. 5:47Um
175. 5:48I personally, there's not much of a big
176. 5:50difference. I personally run Tear Down
177. 5:52the Mighty in keys. Um we do really big
178. 5:54pulls in our in our push keys, so
179. 5:57in my opinion, I think it's more worth
180. 5:59to have that extra Frenetic Frenzy
181. 6:01damage.
182. 6:02But, as I said before,
183. 6:05you can run either or, and you won't get
184. 6:07like penalized too much. Um
185. 6:09But, yeah, that's the talent part. Um
186. 6:11I'm going to get into the next section
187. 6:13right now.
188. 6:14In this next section, I'm going to be
189. 6:15going over the cooldowns, builders, and
190. 6:17finishers of Feral Druid, and kind of
191. 6:20how to min-max everything. You know,
192. 6:22when to not press certain buttons when
193. 6:24you have certain procs. Um
194. 6:26What your priorities are, we'll go over
195. 6:27that in a little bit. Starting us off in
196. 6:29this section though, we have our
197. 6:31cooldowns.
198. 6:32We have Berserk, Tiger's Fury, Frenetic
199. 6:35Frenzy, and Convoke.
200. 6:38Now, before I go over each cooldown
201. 6:39individually, I want to go over the
202. 6:41biggest mistake that most Ferals make
203. 6:44with cooldowns, and that is holding
204. 6:46them.
205. 6:47You should be sending Berserk, Tiger's
206. 6:48Fury, and Convoke all on cooldown,
207. 6:51ideally synced with each other.
208. 6:53Um unless a the boss is at like
209. 6:5615%, you know, like you're going to
210. 6:58you're basically going to waste a
211. 6:59cooldown. Then I wouldn't press, but
212. 7:01ideally you just press everything on
213. 7:03cooldown.
214. 7:04Now, if you'll notice in this clip, my
215. 7:06Tiger's Fury was a little desynced from
216. 7:08my other cooldowns because of like
217. 7:10walking around around, you know,
218. 7:11gathering the pack. So, I held my
219. 7:13Tiger's Fury just to sync it up
220. 7:15perfectly with my Berserk and Convoke.
221. 7:18And now, when I send my next cooldown,
222. 7:21all of all three of them are going to
223. 7:23be,
224. 7:24you know, synced. Um this is one of
225. 7:26those scenarios where
226. 7:27you're thinking, "Oh, shoot. Do I press
227. 7:29my cooldowns here?"
228. 7:31In this scenario, absolutely. Um
229. 7:34I I never really
230. 7:36hold my cooldowns unless it's like
231. 7:38the pack's at like 20%, but here, I get
232. 7:41full use of my cooldowns, my tank's in
233. 7:43trouble, I really want to kill this
234. 7:44tyrant before the next cast goes off.
235. 7:47Um
236. 7:48and I'm only going to get like three
237. 7:50more sins in the key anyway, maybe four.
238. 7:52So, holding here would have been a big
239. 7:54mistake. See, I already have
240. 7:57what, 10 seconds left on Tiger's Fury.
241. 8:00But, the more you play and the more you
242. 8:02get reps in, the um easier it gets to
243. 8:05know when to send or not. Um
244. 8:08it just all about reps and playing more.
245. 8:10Um and there's a lot of factors that
246. 8:12come down to when you're pressing and
247. 8:13when you're holding.
248. 8:15Um like there's certain bosses and
249. 8:16dungeons where the boss will be like 20%
250. 8:19there's a big pull with lust coming up.
251. 8:20My team's like, "Okay, we're going to
252. 8:22send our cooldowns because we're like a
253. 8:23minute and my warrior has CDR and they
254. 8:26they let me save my cooldowns
255. 8:28for the big pull with lust because it
256. 8:31just wouldn't be worth me not having
257. 8:33cooldowns for that pull is like pretty
258. 8:35bad.
259. 8:36Now, getting into each individual
260. 8:38cooldown, I'm just going to go over them
261. 8:40like pretty quickly.
262. 8:42Uh first off, we have Berserk. Um you'd
263. 8:45think this would be our biggest
264. 8:46cooldown,
265. 8:47but it really isn't. Our our most
266. 8:48important cooldown is Tiger's Fury. Um
267. 8:52it gives us the same amount of damage as
268. 8:54Berserk
269. 8:55for the same amount of time.
270. 8:57It's on a 30-second CD instead of a
271. 8:582-minute CD and it's now the only way we
272. 9:01can snapshot our bleeds, so it's it's
273. 9:02pretty important. Um
274. 9:05you know, it I don't understand either
275. 9:06how they make Berserk so bad.
276. 9:10Um Berserk's not bad. Like it like it
277. 9:12passively generates combo points for us.
278. 9:14Like our builders get extra combo
279. 9:15points.
280. 9:16Um but but it still just does the same
281. 9:18thing as Tiger's Fury outside of that,
282. 9:20but on a what, four times longer
283. 9:22cooldown? Like, come on.
284. 9:24Next up, we have Frantic Frenzy, which I
285. 9:26haven't gone over much, but it's our
286. 9:29biggest AoE ability.
287. 9:31You want to press it at like two or less
288. 9:33combo points. You want to press it ASAP.
289. 9:35As soon as you press cooldowns, you want
290. 9:37to get your frantic frenzy out as soon
291. 9:39as possible.
292. 9:40It does
293. 9:42tons of damage. So, you want to wait
294. 9:44until the pack is fully gathered before
295. 9:46sending this.
296. 9:47And this is one of the cooldowns, like I
297. 9:48said,
298. 9:49like all of the other ones, you press
299. 9:51this on cooldown. Do not hold this for
300. 9:53Tiger's Fury. If it lines up, it lines
301. 9:56up, cool.
302. 9:57But,
303. 9:58do not hold.
304. 9:59Last but not least, we have Convoke. I
305. 10:01personally think Convoke is a pretty
306. 10:04good cooldown. It's kind of annoying to
307. 10:05use because it locks you for 4 seconds
308. 10:07and if you use any defenses or anything,
309. 10:09um any press anything during those 4
310. 10:11seconds, it cancels it, but
311. 10:14you you always want to make sure you
312. 10:16press Convoke during your Tiger's Fury
313. 10:18windows, um and Berserk, obviously, if
314. 10:21you like you want to line those up.
315. 10:23You don't want to cast Convoke if your
316. 10:24Rip is going to fall off during your
317. 10:25Convoke. Or, let's say you're at max
318. 10:28combo points
319. 10:29and you don't have a Bite proc or
320. 10:30anything, you Bite to dump those combo
321. 10:32points and then you press Convoke
322. 10:34because it can build up combo points for
323. 10:36you.
324. 10:36Um
325. 10:37unless your Tiger's Fury and Berserk are
326. 10:40going to fall off before you dump, then
327. 10:42press. It's also acceptable to send
328. 10:44Convoke at full combo points in big
329. 10:45pulls like Hall of the Guardian, where
330. 10:47you're not going to stop getting Bite
331. 10:48procs. Just make sure your Rip isn't
332. 10:50going to fall off before that.
333. 10:52Now that we've covered the cooldown
334. 10:53portion of this um section,
335. 10:56I'm going to go into the builders and
336. 10:58finishers of Feral Druid.
337. 11:00Starting off with our builders, we have
338. 11:02Rake. Now, Rake, you're always going to
339. 11:04want to open up with at the start of
340. 11:06packs, if you can, with stealth. Cuz if
341. 11:09you see here, while stealth, Rake will
342. 11:11stun the target for 4 seconds and deal
343. 11:1360% increased damage. This means that
344. 11:16for the entirety of your Rake bleed,
345. 11:18it's going to be doing 60% increased
346. 11:19damage and that is
347. 11:21the only other way you can snapshot
348. 11:23besides Tiger's Fury.
349. 11:25Now, you're going to be keeping this up
350. 11:26on prior mobs, on bosses. Never let this
351. 11:28drop. Um you can spread them in certain
352. 11:30packs in dungeons, but you don't have to
353. 11:32spread it to every single mob depending
354. 11:34on how big the pack is.
355. 11:36Now, going into our next builder, we
356. 11:37have Shred.
357. 11:38This is another builder you're going to
358. 11:40be pressing only in single target, only
359. 11:41one target. You'll be pressing this
360. 11:43button a lot unless you need to refresh
361. 11:45rake. Now, really quickly, we talked
362. 11:47about Sudden Ambush earlier, and in
363. 11:49single target, you're only going to be
364. 11:51using this on Shred, not rake cuz it
365. 11:53only affects the initial hit on the
366. 11:54ability and not the bleed. So, you using
367. 11:57it on rake is kind of a waste. Next up,
368. 12:00Swipe. This is our main AoE builder. You
369. 12:03press this very often with clearcasting
370. 12:05procs and in AoE with Sudden Ambush.
371. 12:08Um
372. 12:09you press this at two or more targets.
373. 12:12For our last builder, we have Frenetic
374. 12:14Frenzy.
375. 12:15This is our biggest AoE builder, if you
376. 12:16would consider it a builder. Um ideally,
377. 12:18you'd want to press this at two or less
378. 12:20combo points.
379. 12:21Um you want to make sure everything is
380. 12:22gathered and in front of you before
381. 12:23pressing to maximize damage cuz it it
382. 12:25can be a little weird sometimes with the
383. 12:27the positioning.
384. 12:29The next part of this guide I'm going to
385. 12:30be going over is finishers. We're going
386. 12:31to start off simple with Rip. Rip is our
387. 12:33most important bleed {slash} finisher.
388. 12:36You only want to send Rip in pure single
389. 12:37target, so one mob. You want to refresh
390. 12:40Rip in Pandemic and to not worry about
391. 12:42snapshotting. And the Pandemic range for
392. 12:44base Rip would be about 5 to 6.5
393. 12:46seconds.
394. 12:48If you're wondering what Pandemic is,
395. 12:49I'll explain that later in the video
396. 12:51when I talk about priorities.
397. 12:53The next finisher we're going to talk
398. 12:54about is going to be Primal Wrath, which
399. 12:55is our AoE Rip. You're going to apply
400. 12:58Rip to all targets within 10 yd of
401. 12:59pressing Primal Wrath. The Pandemic
402. 13:01range for Primal Wrath is 3 seconds, and
403. 13:04same thing goes with Rip and Primal
404. 13:07Wrath, you do not worry about
405. 13:08snapshotting. Just refresh in Pandemic,
406. 13:10don't think about it.
407. 13:12In the next section of this video, we're
408. 13:13going to be going over priorities.
409. 13:15Now, the highest priority for all of
410. 13:17Feral is just keeping your bleeds up as
411. 13:19much as possible in every aspect.
412. 13:21Raiding, keys, etc. This is more of a
413. 13:23key guide, but this includes Rip, Rake,
414. 13:26and for raid, moonfire when it becomes
415. 13:28an option. In keys, we really do not
416. 13:31worry about keeping bleed snapshotted
417. 13:33like you do in raid cuz it's not that
418. 13:35big of a deal. Now, the second highest
419. 13:37priority for feral druid in my opinion
420. 13:39is never sending a finisher with less
421. 13:40than five combo points and to never send
422. 13:43a bite or a ravage with less than 50
423. 13:45energy.
424. 13:46Ferocious bite got changed in 10.0.5, so
425. 13:49now sending a bite or a ravage at less
426. 13:51than five combo points and less than 50
427. 13:53energy is a damage loss.
428. 13:55You have to get used to refreshing your
429. 13:56bleeds correctly in pandemic range for
430. 13:58full uptime and maximum bites during
431. 13:59those bleed windows.
432. 14:01Now, really quickly I'm going to go be
433. 14:02going over pandemic range. I've brought
434. 14:05it up a lot this video and some of you
435. 14:06might be curious. Pandemic range is when
436. 14:08you refresh an old dot before it expires
437. 14:10without losing those last few seconds,
438. 14:12adding them onto the new dot
439. 14:13application. For example, if rake has a
440. 14:16base duration of 15 seconds and you
441. 14:18refresh your rake with three seconds
442. 14:20left, the new rake will have 18 seconds.
443. 14:23It's really just for maximizing the last
444. 14:25few seconds on our bleeds.
445. 14:27The next thing I'm going to go over in
446. 14:28the priority list is not losing out on
447. 14:31bite procs,
448. 14:32which comes from our talent Apex
449. 14:34Predator's Craving.
450. 14:36Anytime you get a bite proc, you want to
451. 14:37be sending it ASAP without messing up
452. 14:39any of the other priorities, such as not
453. 14:41letting your bleeds fall or refreshing
454. 14:43them in pandemic range, etc. My next
455. 14:45priority is going to be the thing we
456. 14:46talked about earlier, which is going to
457. 14:47be don't overthink sending your
458. 14:49cooldowns.
459. 14:50Desyncing your cooldowns is the most
460. 14:51common way ferals lose damage. Now, my
461. 14:54last min-max CD priority is going to be
462. 14:57what I talked about earlier, which is
463. 14:58never sending your sudden ambush procs
464. 15:00on rake.
465. 15:01I talked about how they changed sudden
466. 15:03ambush since the launch of this
467. 15:04expansion. It no longer snapshots the
468. 15:06bleed of rake. It only does the damage
469. 15:08for the initial hit. So, therefore, only
470. 15:10send sudden ambush on shred and swipe.
471. 15:13Now that we're done with priorities, I
472. 15:15can move on to buffs and things as a
473. 15:17feral druid you need to keep track of.
474. 15:20Starting us off, we went over this
475. 15:21earlier, it's Apex Predator's Craving.
476. 15:24These are just maximum damage bite
477. 15:27procs, so they're just free bites to do
478. 15:29the maximum amount of damage, so it'd be
479. 15:30like if you're biting at five combo
480. 15:31points, 50 energy. The next thing I
481. 15:33think is important to keep track of is
482. 15:35going to be Omen of Clarity, which is
483. 15:36our clear casting.
484. 15:38It can accumulate up two times.
485. 15:41Um, it causes our builders to deal 15%
486. 15:43extra damage and cost no energy. This
487. 15:46talent really helps us in those moments
488. 15:47where we're very energy starved. I try
489. 15:50to use these Omen of Clarity procs as
490. 15:52soon as possible because you don't want
491. 15:54to overlap and just lose out on a bunch
492. 15:56of them. Just the same thing as Apex
493. 15:57Predator.
494. 15:58Now, the last thing that you need to
495. 16:00keep, like abs, like keep track of for
496. 16:02sure, like most important in my opinion,
497. 16:05is Ravage. The reason this is, in my
498. 16:07opinion, the most important thing to
499. 16:09keep track of is because it's literally
500. 16:11just an empowered bite. It procs off of
501. 16:13our autos and our builders in berserk.
502. 16:15Hits all enemies in front of us in a
503. 16:17frontal cone. It does more damage than
504. 16:19our normal bite, applies a bleed that
505. 16:21does extra damage on top of that, and
506. 16:23any enemy that has that bleed deals 4%
507. 16:25less damage to us.
508. 16:27Also, everything that applies to bite
509. 16:29also applies to Ravage. I was going to
510. 16:30make a defenses and utility part of the
511. 16:32guide, um, but I don't think that's
512. 16:34really necessary as there's a lot of
513. 16:35different scenarios where you would and
514. 16:37wouldn't press defensives, so I think
515. 16:38that's more so on you guys to get those
516. 16:40reps in. Um, feral's pretty tanky and it
517. 16:42has a ton of helpful utility. Uh, like,
518. 16:45honestly, I think it's pretty underrated
519. 16:46for Mythic Plus. I enjoy playing it.
520. 16:48Obviously, it's viable cuz I mean, I'm
521. 16:50one key off of 22 result, got some tour,
522. 16:53like, got a 23 time the other day.
523. 16:55Um,
524. 16:56you know, just need those reps. But
525. 16:58anyways, I'm going to leave the macros
526. 17:00that I use down in the description
527. 17:01below, and that's going to be the end of
528. 17:02this video for me. If you guys have any
529. 17:04suggestions for me or whatnot, just let
530. 17:06me know in the comments below. Uh, this
531. 17:07is my first time actually like editing
532. 17:09editing a video, and uh,
533. 17:11you know, I it took me a while. Had some
534. 17:13things going on.
535. 17:14I've been sick for the last two weeks
536. 17:16now. Um,
537. 17:18but finally got it done. So, I just
538. 17:19wanted to
539. 17:20thank you for watching and I hope you
540. 17:21enjoyed this advanced Pharaoh guide.
541. 17:23Peace.