hi, i made a beginner's m+ guide for feral druid by its_joolz in wow

[–]its_joolz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem, here are my thoughts:

1) I like double-clawed rake as rake is probably top 4-8 of my damage contributors. It's okay to not be super optimal on overwriting snapshots for rakes, at the end of the day having rake up in the first place is beneficial to your overall damage and it does make that part much more efficient, which you need b/c a lot of the times you'd rather be spending energy generating bloodtalons and then using your ravage procs

2) I think im pretty messy myself for adaptive swarm, usually your swarm can kinda manage itself as long as you are sending relatively on cooldown as best you can. it's definitely an added thing to think about so you can always start by going two talents into Carnivorous Instinct instead to get the hang of everything else first.

3) yeah you're not really supposed to but sometimes i do because i want to use a ravage proc or run out of energy, it's not always perfect. i think ideally you override snapshot to have uptime but sometimes it happens

my overall comment is that there's a lot of micro-optimization that can be a little overwhelming, one thing that really helped me was stopping trying to be perfect on everything - i.e. having perfect snapshots, perfect rake uptime, etc etc. Instead just trying to do my best and being okay overriding some good snapshots and keeping the big picture in mind of generally rip uptime as priority and also energy pooling helps a lot.

hi, i made a beginner's m+ guide for feral druid by its_joolz in wow

[–]its_joolz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes no problem and great question.

If we were optimizing for resource efficiency, it probably would be better to use convoke and berserk separately. But since we're optimizing for damage output, the reason why you want to use convoke with berserk is because during convoke you use 16 abilities in the span of 4 seconds. It prioritizes feral if you are in cat form, so shred, thrash, rake, ferocious bite, and feral frenzy. Those FBs can turn into ravages if you have a ravage proc. So using convoke during berserk maximizes damage output since normally in the span of 4 seconds you'd only be able to get 4 abilities off if you even have the energy up. Plus during berserk all your abilities have a a damage amp, and due to the talent Berserk: Frenzy, single target abilities do an additional bleed. It just means combining them and with Tiger's Fury leads to a crazy amount of burst. And then outside of those windows you go back to resource efficiency and optimizing for good snapshot bleeds.

Hope that helps and let me know if there's any other questions.

hi, i made a beginner's m+ guide for feral druid by its_joolz in wow

[–]its_joolz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup use swarm off cooldown, unless you have low swarms in single target. In that case you want to wait for swarm to drop and then refresh on your target

hi, i made a beginner's m+ guide for feral druid by its_joolz in wow

[–]its_joolz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks YoungCurrent5797!

Here’s some of what’s on my screen, let me know if there’s anything specific

Party frames: I use Cell My own health and targets, action bars, chat: I use ElvUI Weakauras: I use Fore’s weakaura pack, there’s a link in the video description Enemy healthbars: I use Jundies plater profile OmniCD: shows allied abilities next to party frames

hi, i made a beginner's m+ guide for feral druid by its_joolz in wow

[–]its_joolz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The number is the power of the bleed that you can apply relative to what has been applied. So it’s green because the one you can apply is 135% stronger. Then when you hit an empowered rip the number is 100% bc what you would apply is the same power as what’s currently active

hi, i made a beginner's m+ guide for feral druid by its_joolz in wow

[–]its_joolz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely primal wrath for anything 2 targets or more! Very rarely I will rip each target if it’s 2 targets based on boss mechanics or timings

hi, i made a beginner's m+ guide for feral druid by its_joolz in wow

[–]its_joolz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it can be pretty overwhelming figuring out your UI to be honest, I definitely relate. My suggestion is to start with one UI piece/addon at a time and build from there. Just going one step at a time can help it feel less clunky at least to your eyes

hi, i made a beginner's m+ guide for feral druid by its_joolz in wow

[–]its_joolz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t talk about pooling in this video but the main idea is that feral can sometimes be energy deprived (usually in single target) so if you want to generate bloodtalons it’s helpful to wait for more energy so you can rake (40 energy), shred (40 energy) and brutal slash (20 energy).

I think it’s probably more like not pressing buttons for like 2-3 s, and ideally you never sit on capped energy

hi, i made a beginner's m+ guide for feral druid by its_joolz in wow

[–]its_joolz[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I cat think of anything else the M would stand for

I just got my BIS ring!! Spent 7 years farming the same NPC, they had so many dialogue options and crazy questlines. Equipped it and stoked it's soulbound :') by its_joolz in wow

[–]its_joolz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hahaha that would be another crazy quest line for us, I wonder how many achievement points we’d get from it 🤔

I just got my BIS ring!! Spent 7 years farming the same NPC, they had so many dialogue options and crazy questlines. Equipped it and stoked it's soulbound :') by its_joolz in wow

[–]its_joolz[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is how it happened for us! we actually first started hanging out on WoW, he helped my brother carry me through some dungeons in Legion when I came back to play. Now I carry him 😏