The Enigma Order

wow, thats a nice rating

lydomina wrote:

cyclone cyclone.. bear form.. bash.. cyclone cyclone.. entangling roots.. travel form

this ofc changes, when you take into account who you are fighting with and who you are fighting against. Harrasing a player is 1 part of the feral druids job in the arena, but will dare and say that what you wrote fit more on a resto druid than a feral druid.

let me make it easy for you

Your role

So, what are you, feral druid, actually doing in an arena team?
This probably surfaced to your mind quite a lot of times, for sure it surfaced your team members once they discovered you perform worse than planned.

This question is not easy to answer to.

You are a protection warrior with no mortal strike nor damage.
You are a more fragile rogue without stuns nor poisons.
Resilience destroys you.
You are a gimped enhancement shaman when it comes to healing others.
You have no big ability, no magic I WIN button, no imba cooldown, no slogan, no meme, no strong and clear role.

So what can you basically do?

You can try focusing on your few strong points and leverage on them, instead on trying to offset the weak points.


Forget healing, an error I have seen done again and again by ferals.
You. Are. Not. There. To. Heal.
Plus, You. Are. Not. There. To. Tank.
Don't mistake me, you will heal, and heal a lot in some situations, you can and will "create" yourself opportunities to heal yourself and your mate(s), but your role there is of "shock trooper".

The shock trooper comes, aggressively focuses on something and kills it. Or at least, like a rabid dog, will chew on it till their bones till they curse your very existance.
Properly played, the feral druid can harass (and kill) soft healers and low resilience paladins more and better than a rogue (you are to lurk in the lower part of arena, remember? So no full season 2 people there for now).
You are to stay in cat form a lot, the ONLY form and job you are worth taking for in arena most of the time.

There is a very notable exception to all of this. Once per fight, you can completely turn the tide of the fight by using tranquillity. It's not to be used "just because", as it's an huge mana drain. Since you are going to be a DPS + DPS team you'll go low HP somewhere past half the fight. Now, if you have mana enough (the deadliest mistake is to cast a spell and discover you are stuck in caster form!) you can go behind a pillar, barkskin and cast tranquillity. The best for this would be to have their DPS rooted away, because tranquillity causes even more aggro in PvP than in PvE! It can single handedly cancel the efforts of a 5 man team and bring everyone back to full.

*Disclaimer* I know all of this becomes false vs 1700-1800+ well trained teams but this guide is not for high rank game play*

All the following assumes you go with a DPS capable second mate.

notice bold part

you can _usually_ tell on the mana.. 6 - 8k i think is around what most good geared feral druids have. but druids have +healing on their feral pvp gear, so you cant exactly tell if its a resto or not by the healing. if he does kinda crappy dps he is probably resto druid.

i guess it comes down to their play style. Like.. a feral druid will try to do dmg to you, not kite you and a resto druid will try to get away from you and CC you as much as possible.

If you still cant tell, look at their weapon. if they are having a 1hd mace and maybe with the white +healing glow they are usual resto (or changed weapon to get some more healing), if they got a 2nd mace, they are most likely to be feral.