Cataclysm Classic Feral Druid Tank Leveling

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Your first talent point unlocks at Level 10.

Start by picking some useful passives, including 30% more movement speed from Feral Swiftness.

Start by picking some useful passives, including 30% more movement speed from Feral Swiftness. Follow up with Furor for extra Rage when going into Bear Form.

Start by picking some useful passives, including 30% more movement speed from Feral Swiftness. Follow up with Furor for extra Rage when going into Bear Form and Primal Fury for even more Rage.

Start by picking some useful passives, including 30% more movement speed from Feral Swiftness. Follow up with Furor for extra Rage when going into Bear Form and Primal Fury for even more Rage, as well as Feral Aggression for a stronger Faerie Fire (Feral).

Start by picking some useful passives, including 30% more movement speed from Feral Swiftness. Follow up with Furor for extra Rage when going into Bear Form and Primal Fury for even more Rage, as well as Feral Aggression for a stronger Faerie Fire (Feral). Finish the early part of leveling with a single point into Fury Swipes.

Thick Hide turns you into a real tank by making you uncrittable by enemies.

Thick Hide turns you into a real tank by making you uncrittable by enemies, and Feral Charge plus Stampede are great picks for burst damage while moving from enemy to enemy.

Thick Hide turns you into a real tank by making you uncrittable by enemies, and Feral Charge plus Stampede are great picks for burst damage while moving from enemy to enemy. Follow up by picking your critical raid cooldown Leader of the Pack.

Thick Hide turns you into a real tank by making you uncrittable by enemies, and Feral Charge plus Stampede are great picks for burst damage while moving from enemy to enemy. Follow up by picking your critical raid cooldown Leader of the Pack, and finishing Fury Swipes.

Thick Hide turns you into a real tank by making you uncrittable by enemies, and Feral Charge plus Stampede are great picks for burst damage while moving from enemy to enemy. Follow up by picking your critical raid cooldown Leader of the Pack, finishing Fury Swipes, and placing a single point into King of the Jungle on the way to your main defensive, Survival Instincts.

Pick up the massive defensive benefit of Natural Reaction.

Pick up the massive defensive benefit of Natural Reaction and more useful passives such as Endless Carnage.

Pick up the massive defensive benefit of Natural Reaction and more useful passives such as Endless Carnage and Rend and Tear.

Pick up the massive defensive benefit of Natural Reaction and more useful passives such as Endless Carnage and Rend and Tear on the way to Pulverize which is an important extra button to press on your rotation.

Pick up the massive defensive benefit of Natural Reaction and more useful passives such as Endless Carnage and Rend and Tear on the way to Pulverize which is an important extra button to press on your rotation. Put another point into King of the Jungle to open the way to your main DPS cooldown, Berserk.

Finish your leveling talents by picking up the best passives from the Restoration tree, such as Heart of the Wild.

Finish your leveling talents by picking up the best passives from the Restoration tree, such as Heart of the Wild and Natural Shapeshifter.

Finish your leveling talents by picking up the best passives from the Restoration tree, such as Heart of the Wild and Natural Shapeshifter on the way to Master Shapeshifter.

Finish your leveling talents by picking up the best passives from the Restoration tree, such as Heart of the Wild and Natural Shapeshifter on the way to Master Shapeshifter. The final points can go into maximizing Perseverance and King of the Jungle, or Cat talents such as Blood in the Water for more DPS while not actively tanking.

Your leveling glyphs are mostly the same as your endgame glyphs. Glyphs can be a huge boost to your Tanking and DPS capabilities as some glyphs greatly improve the baseline power of your key abilities.

1. Glyph of Mangle — increases the damage of Mangle, which is very useful while leveling.
2. Glyph of Berserk — increases the duration of your Berserk by 10 seconds.
3. Glyph of Lacerate — increases the critical strike chance of Lacerate by 5%, making it a fine damage increase.

1. Glyph of Frenzied Regeneration — causes healing on you to be 30% higher when Frenzied Regeneration is active, for more survivability.
2. Glyph of Maul — makes your Maul ability hit one more target for 50% damage, increasing cleave DPS.
3. Glyph of Faerie Fire — increases the range at which you can pull enemies with Faerie Fire (Feral).

1. Glyph of Challenging Roar — reduces the cooldown of Challenging Roar by 30 seconds, allowing you to use it more often.
2. Glyph of Unburdened Rebirth — removes the reagent requirement from Rebirth, saving some gold over time.
3. Glyph of Dash — reduces the cooldown of Dash by 20%, increasing your potential mobility in the process.

Make sure to debuff enemies with Faerie Fire (Feral) during your opener, especially if they are particularly tough ones such as elites.

Make sure to keep yourself buffed with Mark of the Wild and debuff enemies with Faerie Fire (Feral) when pulling.

Defensive cooldowns such as Survival Instincts should be used whenever you drop low or are facing heavy damage.

Defensive cooldowns such as Survival Instincts and Frenzied Regeneration should be used whenever you drop low or are facing heavy damage.

Defensive cooldowns such as Barkskin, Frenzied Regeneration, and Survival Instincts should be used whenever you drop low or are facing heavy damage.

Use your offensive cooldown, Berserk, to establish solid threat on pull and / or while heavily buffed by Vengeance.

You can only start tanking from Level 15 onwards, as that is the level Bear Form is unlocked.

1. Consume stacks of Lacerate with Pulverize whenever its buff is close to dropping;
2. Cast Lacerate if there are no stacks active on any enemy, to enable free Mangle procs from Berserk's passive effect;
3. Use Mangle when available;
4. Cast Thrash;
5. Cast Faerie Fire (Feral);
6. Cast Lacerate up to 3 stacks;
7. Use Maul with any excess Rage.

1. Cast Thrash;
2. Cast Swipe;
3. Use Maul with any excess Rage.

While leveling, you will not need to use all of your spells. Many can be skipped to save gold and trained at a later date, when you have more gold available to you. We recommend to not train these spells below, and save your gold for gear, glyphs and mounts instead.

• Entangling Roots
• Starfire
• Insect Swarm
• Nourish
• Hurricane
• Lifebloom

Congratulations on hitting Level 85 in Cataclysm! Now that your leveling process is over, you can learn more about maximum level Feral Tank gameplay by reading our detailed guide below.