Feral is the best tree for leveling your Druid from 1-85 in wow Cataclysm.  This leveling build guide focuses on the feral spec tree and then gives you some added bonuses using some restoration points once you have hit your max talent in Feral.

Remember, to level faster you must always have max bags empty before leaving town, as well ass plenty of food, drinks ammo and always repair in town!  If you are still having trouble leveling your druid check out the top leveling guide.

Rotation

Single Target Rotation:

FFF/Mangle/lacerate/lacerate/pulverize
Then:
Mangle whenever possible
Thrash whenever possible if you can’t mangle
Lacerate if you can’t do above.
Pulverize when there are 3 stacks of lacerate on the target or when pulverize is about to wear off.

AoE rotation:
Thorns, then pull

Swipe / Maul(Glyphed) / Thrash / Maul(Glyphed) [repeat until mobs die]

Updates:

Dec 09: Added new build and Glyphs.  Checking on new rotation if needed.

Cataclysm Feral Druid Leveling Build Guide

Level 85 Druid (0/36/5) (Link)

Balance (0 Points)

None

Feral Combat (36 Points)

Feral Swiftness – Rank 2/2
Increases your movement speed by 30% in Cat Form and increases your chance to dodge while in Cat Form or Bear Form by 4%.

Furor – Rank 3/3
Grants you a 100% chance to gain 10 Rage when you shapeshift into Bear Form, allows you to keep up to 100 of your Energy when you shapeshift into Cat Form, and increases your maximum mana by 15%.

Predatory Strikes – Rank 2/2
Increases the critical strike chance of your Ravage by 50% on targets at or above 80% health.

Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per combo point to make your next non-instant Nature spell with a base casting time of less than 10 sec. become an instant cast spell and cost no mana.

Fury Swipes – Rank 3/3
When you auto-attack while in Cat form or Bear form, you have a 15% chance to cause a Fury Swipe dealing 310% weapon damage. This effect cannot occur more than once every 3 sec.

Primal Fury – Rank 2/2
Gives you a 100% chance to gain an additional 5 Rage anytime you get a critical strike while in Bear Form and your critical strikes from Cat Form abilities that add combo points have a 100% chance to add an additional combo point.

Feral Aggression – Rank 2/2
Increases the damage caused by your Ferocious Bite by 10% and causes Faerie Fire (Feral) to apply 3 stacks of the Faerie Fire effect when cast.

King of the Jungle – Rank 3/3
While using your Enrage ability in Bear Form, your damage is increased by 15%, and your Tiger’s Fury ability also instantly restores 60 energy.

Feral Charge – Rank 1/1
Teaches Feral Charge (Bear) and Feral Charge (Cat).

Feral Charge (Bear) – Causes you to charge an enemy, immobilizing them for 4 sec. 15 second cooldown.

Feral Charge (Cat) – Causes you to leap behind an enemy, dazing them for 3 sec. 30 second cooldown.

Stampede – Rank 2/2
Increases your melee haste by 30% after you use Feral Charge (Bear) for 8 sec, and your next Ravage will temporarily not require stealth for 10 sec after you use Feral Charge (Cat), and cost 100% less energy.

Thick Hide – Rank 1/3
Increases your Armor contribution from cloth and leather items by 4%, increases armor while in Bear Form by an additional 11%, and reduces the chance you’ll be critically hit by melee attacks by 2%.

Leader of the Pack – Rank 1/1
While in Cat Form or Bear Form, the Leader of the Pack increases critical strike chance of all party and raid members within 100 yards by 5%. In addition, your melee critical strikes in Cat Form and Bear Form cause you to heal for 4% of your total health and gain 4% of your maximum mana. This effect cannot occur more than once every 6 sec.

Brutal Impact – Rank 2/2
Increases the stun duration of your Bash and Pounce abilities by 1 sec, decreases the cooldown of Bash by 10 sec, decreases the cooldown of Skull Bash by 50 sec, and causes victims of your Skull Bash ability to have 10% increased mana cost for their spells for 10 sec.

Nurturing Instinct – Rank 1/2
Increases your healing spells by up to 50% of your Agility, and increases healing done to you by 10% while in Cat form.

Primal Madness – Rank 2/2
Tiger’s Fury and Berserk also increase your current and maximum energy by 20 during their durations, and your Enrage and Berserk abilities instantly generate 12 Rage.

Endless Carnage – Rank 2/2
Increases the duration of your Rake by 6 sec and your Savage Roar and Pulverize by 8 sec.

Blood in the Water – Rank 2/2
When you Ferocious Bite a target at or below 25% health, you have a 100% chance to instantly refresh the duration of your Rip on the target.

Rend and Tear – Rank 3/3
Increases damage done by your Maul and Shred attacks on bleeding targets by 20%, and increases the critical strike chance of your Ferocious Bite ability on bleeding targets by 25%.

Pulverize – Rank 1/1
Deals 120% weapon damage plus additional (450 * 120 / 100) damage for each of your Lacerate applications on the target, and increases your melee critical strike chance by 3% for each Lacerate application consumed for 10 sec.

Berserk – Rank 1/1
Your Lacerate periodic damage has a 30% chance to refresh the cooldown of your Mangle (Bear) ability and make it cost no rage. In addition, when activated this ability causes your Mangle (Bear) ability to hit up to 3 targets and have no cooldown, and reduces the energy cost of all your Cat Form abilities by 50%. Lasts 15 sec. You cannot use Tiger’s Fury while Berserk is active.

Clears the effect of Fear and makes you immune to Fear for the duration.

Restoration (5 Points)

Natural Shapeshifter – Rank 2/2
Reduces the mana cost of all shapeshifting by 20% and increases the duration of Tree of Life Form by 10 sec.

Heart of the Wild – Rank 3/3
Increases your Intellect by 6%. In addition, while in Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 6% and while in Cat Form your attack power is increased by 10%.

Glyphs

Glyph of Rip (Prime Glyph)
Increases the periodic damage of your Rip by 15%.

Glyph of Berserk (Prime Glyph)
Increases the duration of Berserk by 5 sec.

Glyph of Mangle (Prime Glyph)
Increases the damage done by Mangle by 10%.

Glyph of Maul (Major Glyph)
Your Maul ability now hits 1 additional target for 50% damage.

Glyph of Frenzied Regeneration (Major Glyph)
While Frenzied Regeneration is active, healing effects on you are 30% more powerful but causes your Frenzied Regeneration to no longer convert rage into health.

Glyph of Barkskin (Major Glyph)
Reduces the chance you’ll be critically hit by melee attacks by 25% while Barkskin is active.

Glyph of Unburdened Rebirth (Minor Glyph)
Your Rebirth spell no longer requires a reagent.

Glyph of Dash (Minor Glyph)
Reduces the cooldown of your Dash ability by 20%.

Glyph of Challenging Roar (Minor Glyph)
Reduces the cooldown of your Challenging Roar ability by 30 sec.

Do You Want To Level Faster Like The Pros?

If you are having trouble leveling your druid or need to level faster in WoW Cataclysm I highly suggest you check out Zygor’s Druid Leveling Guide. It has the perfect druid leveling path that gets you to 85 faster and easier than any other way. No matter what level you are, you load the guide and it points with an arrow to the direction of each monster, quest giver, trainer etc. Its pretty crazy. It also has an in game box that tells you exactly what to do, like kill 5 boars, run west 10 miles, etc. If you dont have this in game add on guide, honestly, you are missing out. You can find out more here or check out the Zygor Cataclysm Leveling Guide Review.

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