Originally Posted by Chucifer
What i'm curious about is how a MS warrior beats a good feral druid. In one of my last 5v5 matches, I ended up going 1v1 at the end with a feral druid. I ended up trading blows with the bear, never getting much rage or getting big damage due to the huge armor. We were pretty much even on damage until around 20% when the druid bashed, cycloned and healed. From just testing with guildies, the only way it seems that I can win is by dodging the bash and preventing the feral charge while keeping MS up to minimize any regen or heals.
Is there any other way to beat this with more consistency? Would a shield/high damage 1hander be a better method?
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Generally, what you need to do against bears is to bait for them to feral charge you. Keep Thunder Clap, Demoralizing Shout and Hamstring up and attempt to have them come after you, which then procs Second Wind. Just let him come to you. If he doesn't come, you can bandage and hope for him to go caster form to moonfire you (you intercept and crit him for over nine thousand), but generally they will come, and they will every 15 seconds (which mean you get ~1000 HP every 15 seconds optimally - you can stay alive for an eternity this way).
I generally tend to kite them even though they have Feral Charge on cooldown. Bears have a 2.5 second "swing" time and yours is slower (probably 3.5-3.8 without checking armory). Thus, if one can stay out of melee range while your auto-attack is on CD, the bear's white damage will go down significantly and yours will stay unchanged, which aids your tremendously. Not only does kiting help a lot because of your respective swing times, it also helps because bears tend to dodge a lot. Dodge means Overpower, and Overpower has a 5 second cooldown. Overpower often means Deep Wounds, and both Overpower and Deep Wounds benefit from exchanging hits less often.
If you can manage to both bait second wind, and to keep damage taken low(er), AND intercept him when he risks caster form, I honestly can't see how he can win. I've hamstring kited at least ten million druids since I dinged level 70 and it almost always works fine for me, even before they got nerfed and crit mangles in my plate-covered face for 2000. It's not quick though. =)