Feral Druid Advice - Find a Pally

Evii · 05-11-2009, 09:48 AM

If you're feral and you're not really enjoying playing with a priest, go find your local S5 gladiator paladin and have him spec 21/50/0. It's absolutely incredible and counters a lot of the top teams that you're seeing rise up now.

Just to give you an idea, in my last 40 games with my paladin we've gone 31-10 (or around there, it's hard to tell... since I play with two priests on the same team as well) and we only lost to three teams, one exceptional Priest/Rogue (once), Ret/Sham and DK/Sham. We were playing above 2500 MMR (2600+ at the end) and warrior teams were almost pure faceroll DPS on the warrior. The comp feels much stronger than priest/feral overall.

Good matchups:
War/Healer
Warlock/Healer
DK/Healer

Average matchups:
Ret/Priest or Holy Pal
Rogue/Priest
Double DPS

Bad matchups:
Ret/Resto Shaman or Druid

Chelioslol · 05-12-2009, 05:33 PM

Atm, I play with a buddy feral drood of mine. Though my spec is 35/0/36, I've been contemplating changing my spec to Prot/Holy. But my question is.. how do you guys do against DK's? or atleast the strat. We've had such a hard time trying to get a berserk/cc rotation on the healer to kill the dk, but the DK will always either sac pet, ice trap us, spam CoI or have the pali bop him.. and it's pretty much rinse and repeat.

Beefpotpie · 05-12-2009, 07:50 PM

In a fight like that it really all relies on the Feral for your comp. Honestly he should be able to almost 1v2 a DK down while keeping the pally locked out. If nothing else, it forces the bubble almost immediately, and you can do it again if your real good, and if not again in 3 minutes.

Erch · 05-13-2009, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by browniking

Atm, I play with a buddy feral drood of mine. Though my spec is 35/0/36, I've been contemplating changing my spec to Prot/Holy. But my question is.. how do you guys do against DK's? or atleast the strat. We've had such a hard time trying to get a berserk/cc rotation on the healer to kill the dk, but the DK will always either sac pet, ice trap us, spam CoI or have the pali bop him.. and it's pretty much rinse and repeat.

Evii · 05-13-2009, 11:07 AM

Beefpot and Erch are exactly right. The feral can almost 1v2 any warrior or DK team given just support heals. One thing you need to know is that if you're not putting out enough pressure as feral (or your partner as the case may be) your healer CAN die to HOJ + DK or HOJ + whatever, so the druid has to realize at some point that if he's not putting out enough pressure he needs to maim/cyclone/root/whatever to peel. This is more important against warrior teams than DKs but it applies to both.

I'm playing with a relatively fresh feral druid on my shaman... and I think what I've found, is most inexperienced druids tend to play too defensively and get into bear far too often. It's hard to tell someone "listen, you need to be in cat 90% of this fight... it's up to you to make it happen" but that's basically what you have to do, you stay in cat and it's my responsibiility to keep you alive.

Also make sure your druid is making SR #1 priority. Savage Roar is the single most important skill you're using and I prioritize it over everything unless I'm going for a Maim peel or FB when the target is <30%... and occasionally I'll roar there anyway.

Erch · 05-13-2009, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Viia

Also make sure your druid is making SR #1 priority. Savage Roar is the single most important skill you're using and I prioritize it over everything unless I'm going for a Maim peel or FB when the target is <30%... and occasionally I'll roar there anyway.

Beefpotpie · 05-13-2009, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Erch

Yeah, I've been in the habit lately of renewing a 5 pt SR or Rip when the target is los and <30% only because I know the healer will throw big cooldowns and save him if FB doesn't crit, especially with SR down.

Thing is once that healer does throw those big CDs in, you're in the perfect posistion with a new SR or Rip to pressure again right away and I get alot of kills <10 seconds after that FB point when a non-critting FB wouldn't have gotten the kill and left you drained.

Neximimpostor · 05-14-2009, 01:07 PM

i know as a dk / resto druid, we would tear right through holy paladin/druid

Evii · 05-14-2009, 01:24 PM

That's not really a fair post Nexim. Have you played a lot of them at high ratings? My guess is probably not, since there are maybe 3 feral/priests and 0 feral/paladins above 2200 on your BG.

Smells like a troll.

Underrated · 05-14-2009, 04:05 PM

having a very easy time vs deep prot paladins, emmm candy, bring more!