Feral Druid Leveling Guide

11.0.5 - The War Within

Last Updated:October 24, 2024|Changelog

Welcome to the Feral Druid leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0.5! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!

Talents

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Feral Druid
Druid of the Claw Level 70
Druid of the Claw Feral Druid leveling talents

Spec Tree

  • Tiger's Fury
    • Increase the damage of all your attacks for their full duration.
  • Adaptive Swarm
    • You want to maximize the amount of Adaptive Swarm by casting Adaptive Swarm on as many targets as possible. This can even be on friendly targets if you already have Adaptive Swarm on every enemy.
  • Apex Predator's Craving
    • Every Rip tick, you have a chance to make your next Ferocious Bite free and deal the maximum damage.
  • Primal Wrath
    • Applies Rip in AoE.
  • Omen of Clarity
    • Your auto attacks have a chance to cause your next Shred, Thrash and/or Swipe / Brutal Slash to cost 0 energy.
    • To maximize this effect you want to avoid using it on Brutal Slash as it costs way less energy than the other abilities.
    • You want Moment of Clarity up as well to boost its efficacy further.
  • Convoke the Spirits
    • Use this to cast a bunch of powerful spells on your target.

Class Tree

  • Stampeding Roar
    • Very useful to gap close other mobs while questing.
  • Nature's Vigil
    • You can pull a lot of mobs with it and sustain yourself.

Hero Talents

  • Druid of the Claw performs better than Wildstalker while leveling due to the fact that Ravage is doing massive AoE damage and can kill anything really quick.
  • With Killing Strikes, you can get a proc of Ravage on almost every pull.

Leveling Talent Points

  • Talent point allocation
    • 1. Level 71
    • 2. Level 72
    • 3. Level 73
    • 4. Level 74
    • 5. Level 75
    • 6. Level 76
    • 7. Level 77
    • 8. Level 78
    • 9. Level 79
    • 10. Level 80
Milestones: 0 / 10
1. Level 71
  • Choose Druid of the Claw as your Hero Talent.
  • Pick Dreadful Wound.
2. Level 72
  • Pick Killing Strikes.
3. Level 73
  • Pick Aggravate Wounds.
4. Level 74
  • Pick Claw Rampage.
5. Level 75
  • Pick Bestial Strength.
6. Level 76
  • Pick Pack's Endurance.
7. Level 77
  • Pick Strike for the Heart.
8. Level 78
  • Pick Fount of Strength.
9. Level 79
  • Pick Wildshape Mastery.
10. Level 80
  • Pick Empowered Shapeshifting.

Rotation

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Feral Druid

Single-Target

  • Your goal as a Feral Druid is to cast as many Ferocious Bites as possible without wasting uptime on your bleeds like Rip and Rake. Below, you can see an example of how your opener looks using the recommended leveling talent spec.
Feral Druid Single target leveling opener
  • Berserk.
  • Tiger's Fury.
  • Convoke the Spirits.
  • Keep Rake up.
  • Keep Rip up.
  • Adaptive Swarm
  • Ferocious Bite.
  • Keep Thrash up.
  • Use Brutal Slash to not overcap charges.
  • Shred.

AoE

  • Below, you can see an example of how your opener looks like as Feral Druid using the recommended mythic+ talent spec.
Feral Druid Multi target leveling opener

Priority List

  1. Berserk.
  2. Tiger's Fury.
  3. Convoke the Spirits.
  4. Keep Rake up on most targets.
  5. Keep Rip up with Primal Wrath.
  6. Use Adaptive Swarm on a target with 2 stacks or without it.
  7. Ferocious Bite.
  8. Keep Thrash up.
  9. Use Brutal Slash to not overcap charges.
  10. Shred.

Shopping List

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Feral Druid
  • Consumables
    • 1. Phial
    • 2. Food
    • 3. DPS Potion
    • 4. Heal Potion
    • 5. Weapon Rune
    • 6. Augment Rune
  • Utility
    • 7. Goblin Glider Kit
    • 8. Gunshoes
    • 9. Mount Equipment
  • Experience Gains
    • 10. Banner of Cooperation
    • 11. Standard of Unity
    • 12. Battle Standard of Coordination
Milestones: 0 / 12
1. Phial
  • 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
2. Food
  • 40x Fried Bonefish
3. DPS Potion
  • 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
4. Heal Potion
  • 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
5. Weapon Rune
  • 4x Howling Rune
6. Augment Rune
  • Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
    or
  • 10x Draconic Augment Rune
7. Goblin Glider Kit
  • 20x Goblin Glider Kit
    • Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
8. Gunshoes
  • 20x Gunshoes
    • Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
    • Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
9. Mount Equipment
  • Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
10. Banner of Cooperation

Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.

  • Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
  • Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
11. Standard of Unity

Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.

  • Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
  • Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
12. Battle Standard of Coordination

Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.

  • Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
  • Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination

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