Originally Posted by Balancemoon
but when I said they used 98%-100% of their abilities, I meant even the most rarely used ones have a time when they are useful and thus count them. I pointed out that smite for the shadow priest was one that you could class nearly useless because shadow priests never used it, but it's only one ability, and you can live with that, but it's a completely different thing if 2/3 of the holy tree was like smite, you see what I mean? for balance druid's for e.g 2/3 of the feral tree is just like smite, so we're not just talking one ability but MOST of the feral school that never gets used.
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Let see then feral spells that are "useless" for balance:
Maul
Swipe
Claw
Ravage
Shred
FB
Tiger's Fury
Marginally useful abilities
Rake/Rip/Lacerate (a bleed on rogue to keep from stealthing)
Frenzied regen (pretty poor but if you're oom and need SOME healing it could help)
Demo roar (while it may have its uses, its probably not generally worth the time to use it)
Growl (panzerkin? probably pretty useless)
Abilities of use:
Pounce (free stun opener, not on the same Dr as oomkin stuns)
Bash (another free stun)
Enrage (used to get the bash/lacerate off immediately)
Dash (faster burst of speed can always help, faster than travel form, can be used when stealthing)
Prowl (stealth can always be handy)
Maim (interrupt and disorient)
Travel form (clearly useful)
Gives me 7 useful abilities (not including the actual forms themselves, only dire bear has inherent "use"), 6 of marginal use and 7 that are essentially "useless" (I dont think I missed any off the top of my head). Thats firstly far from the entire tree and secondly its probably on par with what other classes take from at least one of their off-spec trees.