Season of Discovery Feral Druid Tank Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities
On this page, you will learn how to optimize the rotation of your Feral Druid Tank, depending on the type of damage you will be tanking in WoW Classic - Season of Discovery. We also have advanced sections about cooldowns, procs, etc in order to minmax your survivability and DPS.
Overview
We will present the skill rotation for Feral Tank as a priority list. This is not an exact sequence in which abilities should be cast. Instead, what it means is, whenever you must choose between using different skills, try to use the one at the top of the list first.
Our list assumes you are running the recommended build from the talents page and are playing a maximum level character. If you are still leveling, please refer to the leveling-specific rotation located in the table of contents.
Single-Target Rotation for Feral Druid Tank
- Use or refresh Demoralizing Roar to reduce damage intake if no equivalent debuff is available and incoming damage will be high;
- Use Glowing Gneuro-Linked Cowl and Catnip (or Automatic Crowd Pummeler's) effects for burst threat at the start or when boss is fully armor debuffed for maximum DPS;
- Use Mangle on cooldown;
- Spam Lacerate;
- Use Maul as extra off-GCD damage if you still have excess Rage while performing the rest of the rotation.
Multi-Target Rotation for Feral Tank Druid
For multiple-target tanking, the best adjustment you can do to the single target rotation is using Berserk on cooldown, as its effect allows you to hit 3 targets with each Mangle and also removes its cooldown.
Swipe is the main ability you should use when facing multiple targets while outside Berserk, as it will hit up to 10 targets with Improved Swipe.
Also, remember you can Growl any enemies that start to break away from the group to bring them back.
Cooldown Usage for Feral Druid DPS
Use Enrage to keep yourself in combat and generate Rage before or in between pulls.
Survival Instincts can be used as an emergency heal for yourself.
Improved Barkskin makes Barkskin be able to be used while in Dire Bear Form, making it a strong defensive on a short 1-minute cooldown.
Improved Frenzied Regeneration makes Frenzied Regeneration become a much stronger emergency heal you can use when running low on health.
Changelog
- 10 Jul. 2024: Updated for Phase 4.
- 23 Apr. 2024: Added Mangle to the base rotation post rune location hotfix.
- 07 Apr. 2024: Updated for Phase 3.
- 16 Mar. 2024: Typo fix.
- 22 Feb. 2024: Updated rotation after Swipe and Berserk buff hotfixes.
- 12 Feb. 2024: Updated for Phase 2.
- 14 Dec. 2023: Added Sunfire to the rotation as an option.
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This guide has been written by Seksi, original vanilla player and multi-class player, currently playing on Gehennas Horde. You can find him on the Classic Warrior, Mage and Shaman Discords, as well as the Icy Veins Discord.
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