Feral Druid Development Notes for War Within Alpha Build #4 - Ferocious Bite & AoE

Blizzard has posted development notes for Feral Druids regarding the latest War Within Alpha build, giving details on Ferocious Bite and AoE.

We’ve been playtesting, and iterating, and reading your feedback about Feral.We hear that you’re sad to lose the combo of getting AOE value out of Ferocious Bites cast with Apex Predator, and we do want Apex Predator to be an appealing AOE talent. Since we also want to bring significance back to maximizing Tiger’s Fury windows, we’re also not happy with compelling you to overwrite Rips benefitting from Tiger’s Fury with Primal Wrath in AOE to deal damage with Tear Open Wounds. So we’re trying a different version of AOE gameplay by restoring Rampant Ferocity and removing Tear Open Wounds.This retains the rotational clarity that’s a priority for us — in AOE you’ll maintain Rips with Primal Fury and spend additional combo points and Apex Predator procs on Ferocious Bite. The bonus to Rip and Rake damage from Predator will remain single target, as we don’t want this to feel like a maintenance buff in AOE and would prefer to keep its role funneling damage into your priority target.One side effect of this change is that Ferocious Bite and Rampant Ferocity will become a higher percentage of your damage dealt in AOE. We know that part of feeling like a bleed-focused spec is seeing your bleeds being a big component of your damage dealt, and this change will reduce that. We’re still committed to bleeds and DoTs remaining a critical component of your gameplay and rotation.

The War Within Alpha

• Alpha Development Notes
• Wowhead Talent Calc Updated

Content Updates

• Class & Spell Changes
• DK Dev Notes
• Feral Dev Notes
• Shaman Dev Notes
• Destro Warlock Dev Notes

Models

• Void Airship Toy
• Haversack Backpacks
• Earthen Gem Customizations
• Mage Tier Appearance
• Warlock Tier Appearance

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