Being a melee class you’re quite gear dependant and unfortunately this can cost you quite a bit of gold. To alleviate this problem you can have a look at my Secret Gold Guide Review. In the review I cover all the features of this renowned gold guide.
Let’s get back to feral leveling. I suppose I haven’t mentioned it and as such I will now, don’t even consider going restoration to level. If you want to heal dungeons you could go that route but I would highly recommend you simply go moonkin then as you don’t need a healer talent tree to heal most instances while leveling (once you hit 50+ you may want to reconsider though, unless you have the gear to make up for the lack of talents to boost your healing).
With that out of the way let’s move into the feral goodness.
As said before you start out pretty slow. This is mainly because 1-10 you are forced to smack stuff with your staff while casting spells, and 10-20 is spend in bear form which is meant for taking damage, not dealing it. Make no mistake though as you will still level very easily it’s just not very interactive.
Besides that, the focus of this Guide is finding the talent build that allows you to level your druid as fast as possible and because of this you will have to differentiate between the bear and cat talents to optimize your damage and survivability. Even though you will be in cat form most of the time you will still need to keep your bear form bulky to keep yourself alive in dangerous situations.
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I didn’t make a level 80 build. The reason for this is because this build picked up all the key stuff either required to progress to the higher tier, or simply desired talents. Afterwards you get the talents from the restoration tree after which you can freely spend your last 2 talent points as you see fit.
Now I’ll cover some of the talent choices. There’s not much to say about the rather dull talents you get until Feral Swiftness from level 20 onwards. Feral Swiftness is your first core talent, giving you some well needed dodge but more importantly an amazing 30% movement speed increase. This movement boost is something you will sorely miss whenever you spec out of feral, or heaven forbid another class. It’s a great talent that never loses its value.
The reason we pick up talents as Survival Instincts and Thick Hide is because nothing will slow down your leveling more than dying. With every class I try to pick up some survivability talents to reduce the risk of dying. I doubt you’ll get more bang for your buck in regards to survivability than Survival Instincts.
Next we’ll start getting into some superb damage dealing talents. The most important one of this is Primal Fury as it doubles your combination points gained whenever you critically strike with a combo point generator. Primal Fury will allow you to use more finishers as monsters usually don’t last very long.
You may be wondering why I choose to skip Shredding Attacks. There’s not much to it. It’s hard to find a place for it when soloing, unlike in group and raid content. Mobs die to quickly to bother setting it up so you can get behind them. Another downside is that shred is reliant on glyphs and bleeds to deal high damage. As a result your combo points will mostly come from Claw/Mangle, depending on your level.
As we move in deeper we find more little talents that increase our attributes and attack power, leading to even more damage. This is until you finally hit level 40 and you can pick up mangle which will finally remove your silly claw attack. I chose not to max the improved version as the return in talent points spend isn’t worth it while soloing. Now you can move on to King of the Jungle which makes your tiger’s fury a very powerful ability. Once you get this talent don’t forget to use this whenever it is off cooldown as it’ll greatly speed up you kills.
Now we get into the bursty aspects of feral druids, namely through Rend and Tear. Your usual attack being mangle, increases the bleeding damage the target takes while inflicting excellent damage. This is followed by using rake on the target to put a bleed effect on it. Now let’s have a look and Rend and Tear and remember that whenever a target has a bleed effect on it Ferocious Bite has an additional 25% chance to crit. With ferocious bite being your execute move of choice, having this much extra crit chance on it will speed up your kills significantly.
As we’ve finished the key feral talents we’ll move to the restoration tree for some, gasp, damage talents. The highlight of this tree is clearcasting as it will allow you to use more abilities, which especially in solo play will speed up your leveling more than just about any other single talent point spend..
All in all the feral druid is an excellent leveler,which isn’t just because of its great killing speed but also because of the excellent mobility through Feline Swiftness, travel form, aquatic form and instant flight form. If you’re ever looking for a change you can always have a look at the Balance tree, but as I find feral faster and more enjoyable I’m afraid you’ll have to look for a balance guide somewhere else 
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If on the other hand you’re looking for a step-by-step questing guide I recommend you check out Dugi’s Guide which you can find through my Dugi’s Guide Review Here.
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