Is Druid the best in Cataclysm? Top 10 Changes!

[@Scottejaye]

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[@MaddoggKillum]

why dont you stream on youtube over kick/twitch?

[@boblounar]

I have a question for the feral. Does swipe give a combo point in cata? It doesn't in wrath and it's annoying 🤔

[@MaluhiaAraiza-xi8mj]

You forgot the most important change to druid: tranquility becoming raid wide!!

[@AfroKona]

it also gets 100% spell pushback reduction baseline - no more need to barkskin before casting it!

[@alperwal200443]

You can also get a staff from firelands that transforms your cat into a fire cat.

[@majorbones251]

Often overlooked is that Skull Bash is also a gap closer. It has a small charge component. If you don’t have Cat Leap up, this can be an excellent movement alternative.

[@bishopbjarneofcongo4750]

Would really like to see you cover the shaman changes. If i remember correctly, ele shaman was topping the meters on single target dps. Quite a huge change imo

[@christiancoates214]

We actually have a couple of amazing Ele dps in the guild, its quite nice, they also do amazing AOE dps too

[@dannys6871]

cata classic is not only one of the most fun pvp expansions (with the addition of twin peaks as a bonus) but it allows us who are adults and responsible to be able to easily get in and out of the game without having to grind like nails on a chalkboard to get fully geared in pvp

[@QPoily]

Even for players with a lot of time on their hand, Cata's PvP gearing revamp made gearing up for PvP and doing BGs just 10x more fun. I have very fond memories just leveling classes and progressing my honor PvP gear through BGs when I was younger with a ton of free time. WotLK's PvP gearing is by far its worst aspect of PvP. I bet you PvP would've been way more active in WotLK had they simplified PvP gearing to only be honor gear and arena gear, not this weird honor gear, honor+arena, and arena gear system. It's convoluted and lame. Also having gear be locked behind rating was just such a dumb system as well. All it does is make climbing up the arena ladder exponentionally difficult. You not only have to beat players who have more experience than you, but you also have to beat them while they have gear you can't even obtain yet.

[@adamvance2973]

I’m extremely stoked for pvp in Cata. Was my favorite time in it. I don’t care for versatility gear now.

[@mugiwara27]

So in cata i dont need to do pve raids in order to be competetive in pvp, like it is in wotlk?

[@dannys6871]

@@mugiwara27 precisely. Your pvp gear will be better in any pvp situation anyway. The weapons and trinkets give more resilience that can more than make up for a heroic weapon or trink

[@mugiwara27]

@@dannys6871 Thats great, guess i have to give cata classic a shot then :)

[@ahetzel9054]

I just started playing on a cata private server and im convinced cata is the absolute best expansion. Every class feels so good to play. Resto and boomkin is so much fun.

[@andromidius]

MoP is more of the same in that regard - everything feels really nice. Bar Dragon Soul. But maybe it'll be different next time. *huffs the copium harder*

[@brandonkruse6412]

Cataclysm is all-around an awesome expac for both PvE and PvP. Heroic Dungeons were harder than TBC and didn’t reward epics like Wrath. Class balancing and gameplay just got better after Wrath. I would say that Legion is my favorite expansion but MoP has the best raids and class balance. Cataclysm has by far the epic dungeons for any one expansion while still feeling like a Classic expansion.

[@brandonkruse6412]

@@andromidiusDragon Soul was a lot worse in retail because it went on for 10 months. If you can get past most of the bosses being re-skins, it had some pretty epic fights and badass loot. I don’t even mind LFR either. I think it’s been an overall positive mechanic for retail over the years and gets casual players into the raids. If they hadn’t put tier sets in LFR, it could have just been ignored by most people.

[@nicholasokeefe3632]

​@brandonkruse6412 dragon soul was super fun unironically absolutely loved it! Cataclysm is actually an incredibly good expansion in my opinion, but MoP was wows peak for me. Nothing can beat it

[@Lizard1582]

The reality is most people get burned out of WoW regardless of when they start after a couple years. Vanilla and TBC players were bound to leave, and Wrathbabies weren't used to using any sort of thinking in Heroics. Bad expansion for player numbers in its time, but good when it comes to tangible game design.

[@iKnoYooNikka]

Love your commentary and the effort you take to bring all the detail to the community. Thank you so much Scotte long time follower and supporter.

[@brandonkruse6412]

I’m looking forward to the Hunter and Deathknight changes video! I have a ton of experience playing both in Cata through Legion and I can honestly say that both classes got better overall in Cata while peaking in MoP and Legion. MoP survival/bm hunter and Legion Unholy DK is some of my favorite gameplay to this day. 2H Frost DK in the early tiers of MoP was pretty epic too.

[@SasonyCZ]

Nice video Scott again! Here is my experience as long time cataclysm druid on P-servers so on official it may be different - Feral is together with Blood DK best tank in Cata so you will see 90% of Ferals playing tanks, as Feral DPS you are ok but thats all... mid tier. Balance druids are beasts in multitarget encounters and perform relatively ok in single target. If you like big owls and a lot of numbers flying all over your screen and for some reason u dont like mage, balance is the way to go. However in PVP Feral is top dog, feral druid can 1v1 any melee class in game with not much problems, thanks to OP bleed dmg and instant snares / cyclones and mobility. They struggle a bit vs ranged classes. But for BGs u want to play balance druid, i would say that the best of the best BG class/spec is balance druid. You just DOT everyone, pop starfall and watch everyone around you melt with huge numbers flying here and there. Feral in BGs is flag carrier with massive outplay potential... thanks to OP bear resistances and regen u are able to hold 2-4 ppl dming you and survive longer then 30 sec... insane

[@Klaital1]

One important change to dispels you forgot to mention is that it now also has 6 second cd for everyone.

[@jaynocturnal7082]

As a long time feral main, (since original Cata) I can't wait to finally play druid at what I felt was their peak again, thanks for the video Scotte!

[@Thrall966]

Been playing feral since cata too . And I’m telling you feral peak was dragonflight season 1 . It was unreal. Every ferals dream

[@GTmoniq]

as far as i remember for boomie aoe in cata, its just about multidoting and starfall, mushrooms and hurricane are a dps loss (unless ofcourse theres X number of targets thats probably a double digit number, but i guess we will figure that out when cata classic hits)

[@naejimba]

Actually, it changes depending on how you run it... there are several ways to run your boomie with different glyph options. =) Hurricane does kind of suck though in Cata and MoP. =(

[@QPoily]

Going from playing boomy on a wotlk pserver to playing it on a mop pserver was such a rude awakening. ST felt 100% more fun. Cleave fights also feel 10x better. AoE feels 1000x worse, though :(

[@easycake3251]

Do wonder if Bearweaving will be a thing, mainly ofc bear hits like a truck, but the Pulverize synergy. Getting 15% crit for 18sec (Unless you cant stack up 5 lacerates in Cata?). Also getting the 30% haste from bear charge vs cat ravage seems like more gains ?

[@hamm8934]

They nerfed powershift breaking roots in 4.2 or 4.3 which really capped how high they can climb in arena, as they get destroyed by wizard cleaves.

[@Rapha_the_Ancient]

Glyph of Omen with the change to charge is going to feel so good for cats!

[@josedavidmunozmartinez4722]

Another really good change for Rdruids (And healing in general) is that HoTs (Healing over time effects) can finally crit. Being a HoT healer sucked before Cataclysm, after that, Blizzard realized that the only class without the ability to crit was Resto Druid, so there you go. An AMAZING quality of life change.

[@skar4276]

Lovely Scotte!! I am frothing at the mouth with all these cata changes vids

[@CardBoredB0x]

Love these videos. Could you cover profession changes too? Would be good to know if it's worth rerolling to/from anything in cata.

[@tableslam]

MY BODY IS READY

[@dflowers6771]

more cat parsing vids plss😫

[@Lotuswalker]

FIRE KITTEN INCOMING !!!!

[@Madlux14]

Is it? Or is it fat and lazy lol

[@tableslam]

@@Madlux14 fat & lazy is just a different form of ready. ready for snacks

[@sturmsworth]

Bruh… the more I learn about feral changes I’m going from Cata = mid to Cata = hype?

[@cainenz]

Cata is when they introduced Glyph of the Stars for boomy isn’t it? So you can look like your caster form in boomkin.

[@Scottejaye]

thats MoP mate, unfortunately still stuck as a big chicken in cata :D

[@hamadalmazroui2158]

Mate you need to release these class videos faster! I NEED THEM 😂 Maining a boomie at the moment but my heart is purple, cant wait to see the warlock changes! Keep'm coming amazing job!

[@mikaeleriksson7768]

@scottejaye do you have a video with a link to ur feral ui weakaura? or just link it pls, giga clean!

[@NickPlays95]

Do we get moonkin at level 10 or is it still deep in the tree in the 40s?

[@P.czubak]

Love the cata class videos man !! Good work. Warrior next !!!!!

[@Kureene]

Can someone explain the raid loot system in cata for me? I tried looking it up and it seemed like both 10m and 25m drop the same loot with the same ilvl. So is it possible to run only 10m and get your bis? And does 10m and 25m share lockout if this is the case?

[@kaizersmoeller]

Same loot table. No They dont share lock out since ur locked on boss progression and not instance as a whole. 25m drops more pieces than 10m. We are allready trying to stomp down a solid 10m team for cata since we then Can avoid 25m rosters completely.

[@Kureene]

@@kaizersmoeller Thanks, that sounds perfect. A tight knit 10m roster sounds infinitely more appealing after having dealt with roster issues in both 25m and 40m. With proper content pacing, cata sounds like a step up despite all the nostalgics calling wrath the last good xpac.

[@dfcd1432]

@@kaizersmoeller Cata is still instance lockouts. Boss Progression locks were a change in WoD prepatch

[@kaizersmoeller]

@@dfcd1432 if u kill boss 1,2 and 3 the first Night u Can find another grp with same progress and join them instead of ur original grp. But i cant join a raid where u have killed a boss and the grp Havnt. The other u talk about Yea is boss by boss personale raid lockout. But that came in mist with thunder raid ?

[@samruiter6244]

Thanks Scotty! Been waiting for this one and now i move forward with my plan of 2 druids in cata. 1 boomy/resto the other feral/tank

[@mr.mikaeel6264]

This is what we were all waiting for! Boomie balance wsg to the max. You know a class is insane when the flag carrier gets to do a ton of aoe dmg + healing on the go!

[@bakerfx4968]

Is it cata where spriests can just target the tank to mind sear?

[@albeshino8875]

i think so

[@Scottejaye]

Yea mate

[@bakerfx4968]

@@Scottejaye ok now I’m even more hyped lol thanks for the response

[@rick33331]

Is this the final patch version of the druid specs for CATA like we will probably see on launch?

[@Sodo44]

@scottejaye when you going to do the feral tank guide . I run two feral tanks and cat wait to be a god lmao.

[@Scottejaye]

Plan on working on the guides for each spec once these top 10s are done and professions are done, so should be in the next few weeks

[@jaredcrow3710]

Ive always played melee .im thinking mm hunter or fire mage for cata your vids will be my decider 😊

[@Chrenno]

Great vid man! Hunter next!!

[@Scottejaye]

Hunter is indeed next!

[@PendlayRoe]

Very interesting. Idk If I'll play cata, let alone druid, but these videos are fun to watch.

[@majorbones251]

Does the Pulverize crit buff still apply if you shift to cat? I’ve never tested it myself.

[@Demosthenes84]

I made my main, my wargen druid in Cata. I can't wait for this to release

[@Lenz2371]

Can you play all Speccs or just two like wrath?

[@ivailomendarov2378]

I've been maining Feral Bear since classic vanilla ,all the way through tbc and now in Wotlk ,do i have to say that im keeping the furry in Cata ? :) i am SO tired of prot paladins thinking they are the shit ,but when we start the encounters i smash them on every single department ,cant w8 for Cata just to prove them wrong once again :)

[@Lamm-si6pe]

Is tranq changed to raid wide in cata?

[@hankheeel9256]

Ye

[@Muzzaarr]

This might get misses but what is your weak aura it looks clean (feral dps)

[@HellAnimo]

Should me Fojji :)

[@begerbingchilling]

Fury swipes is a really nice addition to cat's already insane aoe

[@xorath2427]

I didn't think about challenge mode in cata but that's a very good idea

[@myoda9315]

On which private server do you play?And test out the different classes?

[@Fallenbrave]

Great video! Can you do warrior next?

[@bohne8746]

oke

[@andromidius]

My main problem currently with Druid is... there are three of us in my ten man casual raid group. And while we're doing fine the "Gamer" in me feels like its not optimal, especially when the Feral tank is offspecing as Boomie (which I play as main). I know he's probably not switching. Neither will the Resto Druid. So that leaves me. And there's no problems with me continuing as the chicken, I just feel like maybe I should play something else to be "more useful". And the second problem is... I don't know what that could be other then Hunter, which is my other main in my 25 man semi-hardcore guild. We have a Shadow Priest, more tanks then we actually need, a Holy Paladin, two Warlocks, a Mage, a Rogue, a Shaman... We don't need tanks or healers or melee. So ultimately... Boomie really is my only choice, right? And that feels weird.

[@PregnantOrc]

That just means you are free to pick anything. If the optimizer in you is screamming then look at what armor type or tier token set is most likely to go to waste and optimize for loot distribution instead if all roles and buffs are covered

[@andromidius]

@@PregnantOrc And that would be... Hunter. Or Enhancement Shaman, but we're already fielding enough melee (and I, honestly, kind of suck at melee dps). Rough choice.

[@naejimba]

It's pretty easy to cover buffs in this xpac with the overlap. Unless you are missing something huge you can play what you'd like to.

[@cyanophage4351]

Would be excited to see Warlock next!

[@roshidon]

I mained druid in Cataclysm - had a blast.

[@dirk6503]

The best change to feral has to be the way savage roar works imo. Also you got to be about the only resto druid that isnt glad to see the boring ass tree form go after 3 years.

[@sNNNNNable]

Damn feral looks even more fun than wrath. Hopefully their dps isn't ass and we don't get pushed to play bear

[@dungeriedee]

Love these videos so much man.

[@daneaucker247]

Am I dumb? Can’t you already use lifebloom on multiple targets? So they took that away in cata and then made an ability give it back? Weird

[@TurboNemesis]

you would think mushrooms would be tied to the lunar phase since mushroom prefer to grow in the dark

[@sgtb3691]

The constant drastic druid changes in every patch in cata is one of the reasons i quit wow. Having a more stable class build if cata releases has me excited to try it again.

[@naejimba]

Exactly... I HATED the first iteration of the balance bar (where it just moved back and forth on its own haha). Once they finally figured it out though it is a wonderful spec.

[@sgtb3691]

@@naejimba I remember. I was also huge into battlegrounds and they kept changing the amount of shifting out of snares they would allow, every patch. I heard it got better but I had moved on by that time.

[@mijae1146]

What i've learnt from this video - Scott likes mushrooms

[@JayPlaysEverything]

I'll be honest, losing abolish kind of sucks. Specifically in PVP but in a lot of pve content also.

[@pentu7738]

without permanent treeform. druid heal is now playable

[@Nuclear_Money]

Literally didn’t mention that shifting no longer removes root effects. This is a bit change

[@mosquito6581]

Don’t ferals loose cyclone ? 😢

[@dinosh5576]

Warrior next pls

[@56Bagels]

No honorable mention to Solar Beam?

[@albeshino8875]

can't wait for shaman and priest videos

[@Sodo44]

All 3 of my druids are ready. Lets do this

[@5hourenergy580]

Can you do priest next pls :D i was gonna main priest i think instead of hpal

[@Scottejaye]

The next one is hunter but priest is after that, already recorded just need to edit

[@5hourenergy580]

@@Scottejaye oh sick hell yeah ty :D

[@user-wq8cp3bi9k]

i hate what they done with tree of life and lifebloom in cata ....

[@majorbones251]

NOW WERE TALKING BOIII!!!! I can’t wait to be Cat again!

[@brandonkruse6412]

Arms Warrior mains are in for a great time in Cataclysm.

[@Vhite]

Man, I think you sold me on druid...

[@joemcginnis1718]

I play druid I'm kinda nervous it changes for the worst

[@Colancio]

Hey Scott please make the priest changes please!

[@kingmufasa8929]

The broccli druid put me of this class

[@glexis3137]

WHERE IS THE EFFLORESSENCE TALK??? It was such a HUGE healing buff IMO.

[@Rencol666]

please make this kind of video on mages

[@soccerawesome1000]

I feel like this is some serious bear tank copium

[@Scottejaye]

As someone who hates tanking, i have no need for copium, its just facts.

[@soccerawesome1000]

@Scottejaye I agree with you on the blood dks being s tier but I haven't heard that druid was anything but the floor of tanks for cata. Kinda hope that it's wrong though. I liked when bear was busted in tbc

[@afscrew123]

​@@soccerawesome1000druid is equal to or slightly below prot pal in terms of raw tanking, but they shine as offtank with hybrid dps tank spec and gear bring so similar, theyre the premium 10man offtank

[@Nerowinga]

Waited for this hot shit since the roq vid

[@Phocieda]

Be cool if we still get glyph of omen

[@jamesbaggett3655]

cant wait till you talk about hunter

[@szabel.]

classic Cata isn't happening idk why people are coping so hard for it

[@Blubking1]

It is. Its kinda coping if you don't think so

[@acedelserpente]

Cata maybe happening....but I bet it will be dead servers...like tbc

[@szabel.]

@@Blubking1 keep coping bro lol. they literally are not going to do it

[@Blubking1]

@@szabel. yea streamers just talk about it out of the sudden because they def don't know it's coming. Stop the coping and face the reality. I never said it is going to pop off

[@Blubking1]

@@szabel. ????? You literally invented that

[@sebastiannouhan2498]

Shaman soon plz!

[@jaysonallen6179]

Hunter please

[@ceroluthor]

time to do shamans!!!

[@skyclaw36]

Shaman next!! best mail boys!

[@surgeongeneralx6655]

Shaman next 😊

[@Scutifer_Mike]

Cata feels far too easy. Tanks heal as much as healers. There is no risk involved. Just smashing buttons and crushing everything. With zero risks, zero rewarding experience

[@Zantsmith]

death knight when o:

[@az9498]

I like old wrath visual better

[@kevinjohansson9358]

Dk next? :)

[@supra4lif3]

These videos need to come out quicker. Hype is real

[@jonny7444]

Nah they gotta be balanced over the coming months till cata

[@seansaxon641]

I'd love to play Cata, but tbh, I won't without RDF. Thanks for the Cata content! Keep it coming.

[@Costofwisdom1971]

Feral loses fear break on berserk.. Stupid

[@alexanderapel1545]

Charge weaving XDDD my man!

[@azulanazul5988]

Troll Form :D

[@_Augie]

Nooo don’t make people want to play feral tell them warrior and mage is OP 😂

[@BoHal4]

Don’t worry they’ll have to learn the rotation first before they main it lawl. That’ll drop 90 percent of people immediately

[@dflowers6771]

cata hype

[@Wilsarion]

Yasss

[@cookingwithsquatch]

lol must be new to wow

[@глепглеп]

what the fack is CaA he is talking about?

[@Simbaledo]

OMG i just ruined my wotlk experience watching this CATACLYSM FERALS LETSGOOO

[@rockzors]

That transition with the colors is really messing with my eyes, please dont use it again.

[@mijae1146]

First (ish)

[@seaxaer]

first ♥