Ferocity 1/5
Leveling 1–60
Tank & damageDruid Feral Leveling Build
Keep your leveling pace as Cat, or tank groups in Bear Form. Choose Shifting Power for Cat or Primal Bite for Bear. Select your level in the calculator to see which talents the build takes by that point.
Talent order by levelTalent calculator ↓
View the full talent progression
Ferocity 5/5 · Feral Swiftness 2/2 · Furor 3/5 · Feral Charge 1/1
Ferocity 5/5 · Feral Swiftness 2/2 · Furor 3/5 · Feral Charge 1/1 · Shredding Attacks 3/3 · Sharpened Claws 2/2 · Predatory Discipline 1/1 · Savage Fury 2/2 · Lacerate 1/1 · Predatory Strikes 1/3
Ferocity 5/5 · Feral Swiftness 2/2 · Furor 3/5 · Feral Charge 1/1 · Shredding Attacks 3/3 · Sharpened Claws 2/2 · Predatory Discipline 1/1 · Savage Fury 2/2 · Lacerate 1/1 · Predatory Strikes 3/3 · Leader of the Pack 1/1 · Blood Frenzy 2/2 · Rend and Tear 4/5 · Shifting Power 1/1
Ferocity 5/5 · Feral Swiftness 2/2 · Furor 5/5 · Feral Charge 1/1 · Shredding Attacks 3/3 · Sharpened Claws 2/2 · Predatory Discipline 1/1 · Savage Fury 2/2 · Lacerate 1/1 · Predatory Strikes 3/3 · Leader of the Pack 1/1 · Blood Frenzy 2/2 · Rend and Tear 4/5 · Shifting Power 1/1 · Primal Bite 1/1 · Heart of the Wild 5/5 · Naturalist 2/5
Ferocity 5/5 · Feral Swiftness 2/2 · Furor 5/5 · Feral Charge 1/1 · Shredding Attacks 3/3 · Sharpened Claws 2/2 · Predatory Discipline 1/1 · Savage Fury 2/2 · Lacerate 1/1 · Predatory Strikes 3/3 · Leader of the Pack 1/1 · Blood Frenzy 2/2 · Rend and Tear 4/5 · Shifting Power 1/1 · Primal Bite 1/1 · Heart of the Wild 5/5 · Naturalist 5/5 · Natural Shapeshifter 3/3 · Reflection 3/3 · Gift of Nature 1/5
Interactive talent calculator
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Core talents
- Level 20: Feral Charge
- Level 25: Predatory Discipline
- Level 29: Lacerate
- Level 33: Leader of the Pack
- Level 40: Shifting Power
- Level 41: Primal Bite
Playstyle and rotation
Leveling priority
- As Cat, build bleeds and combo points; use Ferocious Bite according to your Energy and the target’s remaining Health.
- As Bear, use your threat abilities and talented Lacerate; Primal Bite belongs to the Bear role.
- Change form for your assignment and heal between fights.
Important notes
Movement speed and little drinking downtime are this build’s strengths; weapon stats work differently from normal melee classes.
Racial abilities for your class
- Tauren · Plainsrunning
Movement speed rises by 2% per 5 seconds moving, up to 60%. Damage or standing still reduces the effect. Does not increase mounted speed.
- Tauren · Endurance
Increases total Health by 5%.
- Skyborne · Read Ley Line
Alliance: increases Health and Mana regeneration by 50% for 15 seconds. Using it at a leyline grants Attuned for 1 hour, raising the bonus to 100%. Attuned persists through death. Cannot be used during Innervate; Innervate replaces the effect. Castable while moving. Removed on entering a raid.
- Skyborne · Skysight
Horde: increases movement speed by 15% for 15 seconds. Using it at an elemental convergence grants Charged for 1 hour, raising the bonus to 30%. Charged persists through death. Castable while moving. Removed on entering a raid.
- Skyborne · Wind Blessed
Increases melee, ranged and spell haste by 2%.