/cast !Cat Form

This will recast cat form regardless of what form you're in. It will not shift you if you don't have enough mana, or if you're currently within the GCD. The exclamation point is needed to tell the macro to cast the spell, rather than toggle it. Similar to a hunters macro /castsequence Steady Shot, !Auto Shot.

Well lacerate is 235 threat. So 235 average damage on swipe. You must be wearing pretty much full dps gear if you are averaging 225 swipes in tier 5 gear. DR is of course, as Dukes points out, the key - on a low armour boss you'll reach it a lot quicker. Anyway thanks for the comments - the 4pcTier6 bonus was something I hadn't really thought about, but I'm probably a week or 2 away from that at the moment.

Leo is completely tankable by a feral. Its possible to put together a gear set without any badge gear -- but the badge gear is easier. If you want a non-badge set, there is a craftable cloth chest and the aldor rep crafted belt/boots/legs. Fill in with a couple green pieces and a head enchant. Its entirely reasonable to be at 19k+ health buffed and capped in FR, using crafted gear, greens, a chromatic flask and a paladin aura. With that said, the badge loot is a bit better. And the badge chest is the clear first badge piece to buy. I like using 2 piece of T4 for the extra rage generation. I use my best DPS weapon for threat generation.

One trick I like for the pick up is to try to moonfire him while he is whirlwinding if he'll go to demon phase mid whirlwind. If he isn't, I try to leave a rip ticking and shift to bear form right before the demon phase starts. Either one is a little extra initial threat and sometimes help with faster pickups.

Whut!? RoS has ridiculously low armour which makes swipe do more damage than lacerate - the fact you don't tank it in the normal way doesn't matter :p Also, can someone confirm if you need /cancelform if you have auto-switch turned off but use !Cat rather than just Cat?

While trying the double mangle debuff "bug" on mobs, i noticed something that didn't make sense. When I ripped during the last second of mangle, that rip acted as if it had one mangle debuff for the next 12secs, even though none was up. If you then proceeded to throw up a mangle, (didn't matter if a few rips ticks went by), then the rip would receive the "double" mangle debuff.

This shows that the bug is solely based on landing rip during that last 1/2 second of a mangle and somehow the rip gets the debuff for the next 12 seconds as well. Is this correct or a different bug altogether?

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I really think you need to re-read the last two pages of this thread.

Edit: in order of posts, over the last 3 pages (I have 50 posts/page), from the start when someone asked with 3 explanations following it from different people.

Okey dokey time for someone to tell me why I'm such a dang fuckup at kitty form fights.

Here's a WWS for TK last week; in particular is the Solarian death split. I was tenth place, with 750 DPS.

Now this wouldn't bother me, since I know cat DPS isn't exactly top of the line, but all but one of the others in the top 10 have like 200 more DPS than me, and I can't possibly attribute that to just "lol druid". I took a look at the Toskk DPS thingy, too, and it says with my stats I should be doing more like 880, not 750--still lower than the rest, but not as absurdly so. (and if I add powershifting to that, my expected DPS according to the formulae goes up even more)

I'm doing the right attack cycle (Shred to 4/5 CP, wait for 80, Rip, Mangle), or at least I think I am, so what could be going on? Is WWS mistaken in my DPS? Is Toskk overestimating my potential? Are cat druids just doomed to be this far below the pack by nature?

(edit) For reference: 3k AP, 32% crit, 86 hit, 2t4

I also spent an hour or two working on the timing using one of those servants. I have a latency of ~45 and even then it's not that easy to do every time. I think I had about a 60% success rate. I tried reproducing it in a 5-man and I ended up getting almost as many -mangle bugs as the +mangle variety. Unless it was a pure tank and spank I just couldn't seem to catch the golden half-second.

24% shred crit rate, no powershifting, tank group? (warrior but a tree too by the looks of it).

Solarian will always be a pain for damage because of having to be behind, downtime while AOE's go on (iirc you'll do more damage total by barkskin->hurricaning than trying to melee during the aoe phase). Everyone above you has some form of AoE attack (blade flurry, multishot, magic stuffs).

I don't recall, but it IS possible I was left in the tank group for the trash, VR, etc.

Thanks for the thoughts, folks. I'm gonna see if any older WWSes for more tanky-spanky fights are still available and look to those.

(by the way, for whoever asked, some of my gems/enchants are odd because much of my cat and bear gear is still shared. In a couple cases, my choices are odd because they were purple gems rotting in my bank and I didn't want to spend money and I'm too lazy to replace them so there)

I know the single biggest improvement I can make is powershifting more, but doing so worries me basically because of mana consumption.

When I powershift (using /cancelform /cast Cat Form), my estimated mana bar (from Pitbull) does not update, and never does until I assume caster form (however temporarily). I'm assuming this is because of the 2.3 shifting changes, where the switch to caster simply doesn't happen server-side. Is there a fix for this? My version of Pitbull is totally up to date, so I'm not sure it's that.

Also, I know the more you powershift the greater your long-term DPS is (as long as you're not powershifting at >25 energy), but how much is "enough"? I worry that I'm going to run my mana bar dry and be unable to pop out and Rebirth or Innervate or whatever without being stuck in caster form--while a mana pot could cure this, what if I'm on cooldown for pots? Then I'm cramboned--and it could happen at any time since, as I said above, my mana estimate bar is broked for 2.3 powershifting.