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11.1 Tier Set

2p: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate a Winning Streak increasing the damage of your Ferocious Bite, Rip, and Primal Wrath by 3% stacking up to 10 times. Ferocious Bite, Rip, and Primal Wrath have a 15% chance to remove Winning Streak!. Free Ferocious Bites are exempt from this chance.

4p: When you consume Apex Predator's Craving, become a Big Winner, dealing (800% of Attack power) Physical damage to Apex Predator's primary target and increasing the damage of your periodic effects by 16% for 6 sec.

The 2p is worth ~2.1% dps, 2p+4p is worth ~7.1% dps. While this is on the weaker side for 11.1 tier sets, we will still equip 2p2p as long as the new 2p is of hero-track or better. (Sim your character to be certain)

Talent Builds

All talent builds will now contain Apex Predator's Craving once we acquire the new 4p. Switching to this new tier set also means we are likely playing Wildstalker for most if not all bosses in this raid. In other words, Wildstalker will be the default raid hero tree, and Druid of the Claw will be the default mythic+ tree. Additionally, the Druid Class Tree has been updated. Like usual, make sure to grab the throughput nodes first, and then whatever you may need for the fight afterwards.

Rotation

Single Target

Multi Target

Talents

Class Tree (all pve content)

Talent Explanations

Purple Choice Options Explained

Lore of the Grove: If you talent Lunar Inspiration, you should be talenting this as well.

Remove Corruption: Always take if you need poison or curse dispel, which is not every dungeon, and isn't all that common in raid either.

Nurturing Instinct: You put points into this if you are playing Lunar Inspiration (or technically Convoke) and have nothing else to put points in. It is an extremely minor dps increase.

Feline Swiftness: You only drop this if you need another talent point to play something else, and value the Well-Honed Instincts proc over movement speed

Well-Honed Instincts: Strong versus rot damage in particular, its main issue is that sometimes this will trigger when you don't need it to, and because of that it is less reliable.

Perfectly-Honed Instincts: Can take if there isn't anything else you want, or if the fight timers suit 90s cooldown better.

Incapacitating Roar: Often picked in keys as a soft-kick. Recently buffed so it won't break instantly. In raid this is pretty niche.

Ursine Vigor: Mostly keys only talent for when you need a stronger Bear Form. Occasional use in raid as well.

Fluid Form: Highly recommended talent to reduce global wastage from shapeshifting. If you don't find yourself shapeshifting much, this talent is much less valuable.

Typhoon: If you need a knock, or think the knock will be more useful than Ursol's Vortex

Ursol's Vortex: Excellent kiting tool that wont leave mobs spread out all over the place. Can also pair with Typhoon as a poor mans mass grip, or just to use typhoon as a soft-kick without splaying the mobs all over the place.

Mass Entanglement: More of a niche option compared to Ursol's Vortex, Mass Entanglement can be good if you want to root a group of mobs that the group does not intend to attack.

Innervate: If your healer told you to talent this. Well that or you want Nature's Vigil and/or Forestwalk.

Nature's Vigil: Solid healing during your cooldown windows, especially in keys. Pair this with Berserk a vast majority of the time. I would pick this a vast majority of the time with the Class Tree rework.

Forestwalk: Decent survivability bump, given that you're receiving healing. Stacks multiplicatively with other healing increases.

Improved Stampeding Roar: Great in keys/world content for a more frequent movement cooldown between pulls; also frequently played in raids when you need Stampeding Roar more often than every 2 minutes.

Lycara's Meditation: If you have the points to spare and you will be shapeshifting a decent amount, this is just more damage. It is best in keys, where you often enter Bear Form.

Niche Options Explained

Matted Fur: If you have nowhere else to put your talent points, this technically does something. It's extremely weak, but technically a defensive increase.

Heart of the Wild: For cutting-edge levels of keys where you either need a stronger Bear Form to cover damage events, or just another charge of Frenzied Regeneration.

Hibernate: Almost exclusively used in keys, and rarely so. This is essentially a sap that only works on beasts and dragonkin, essentially you only chose this talent if you have a specific target to hibernate in mind.

Mighty Bash: If you don't need Incapacitating Roar but do need a single-target stun, and can afford to take this instead of Maim. In PvE, Mighty Bash is generally preferred over Maim because it doesn't cost combo points and energy to cast, and is niche enough that the cooldown difference isn't as relevant.

Maim: In PvE, maim is generally used as an emergency soft-kick as opposed to a stun, though you can use it that way as well. It has a short cooldown, and easy to acquire. Its main issue is how much dps you lose by casting it, relegating the spell to niche-tier. It also puts mobs on stun dr, which in some groups can be inefficient.

Starfire -> Moonkin Form: This is almost exclusively for access to Moonkin Form's Wild Charge for when you cannot Wild Charge inside Travel Form. In world content, Flap can be nice to have as well.

Astral Influence: Probably the most niche talent option there is for Feral Druids, this extends the range of Adaptive Swarm and Lunar Inspiration for when 40 yards isn't enough but 45 yards is.

Gale Winds: If you have the talent point to spare, Gale Winds makes Typhooning mobs easier when mobs are spread out.

Incessant Tempest: If you find yourself in a scenario where you need to knock twice in less than 30 seconds, this talent lets you do that.

Raid Talents

Our recommended default hero-tree for raiding is Wildstalker once you acquire at least the 2 piece 11.1 set bonus. That being said, Druid of the Claw may see some play on fights with AoE.