The only direct-dps talents that you're missing there are Feral Aggression and Savage Fury; my back-of-the-envelope calculations* suggest that FA is worth less than 1% per point if we're using Ferocious Bite, while SF is worth between 2% and 3% per point if we're using Rake, about half that if we're not.

If rotations don't change it's just some damage off Mangle, but the worst case, that's 11%, which would be a distinct difference between cat-spec and bear-spec druids. In that event, it might be worth pulling points out of iLotP and something else to fill out at least Savage Fury, if not both.

* Assuming FB is worth about the same percentage of our damage as rip is now, Mangle stays the same, Rake is worth about the same as a Shred, and then rounding up.

Without the offhand attack thats roughly 15% more damage, if thats true i can only imagine that they want to put us on rogues levels. With all the buffs coming i feel really OP in arena and raids. This can only work if all other classes are similar buffed.

Hmm, the preliminary Dire Cat form seems rather overpowered on first impressions. From a PvP perspective, we'd be looking at an un CC-able mutilate-shadowstep rogue in mail, with 40% dodge, moving at 145% speed and able to output reasonable heals in a pinch.

I'm having a hard time believing it - especially since there doesn't seem to have been an alpha update yet.

I will say though, if this is true, we'd better buy ourselves a boat to stay afloat on all the rogue/warrior tears flooding the officials.

I appreciate the attempt to be fair to other classes, but can we at least wait to try things out before we start calling feral buffs overpowered?

I'd be interested to see how they're handling the idea of an off-hand in forms. Will it be a different coefficient of a FAP staff, or (unlikely) are they considering off-hand itemization for ferals? The chance to have a form that can move more fluidly between casting and DPS does sound pretty good, though.

But with a gouge that eats all your CPs, have to shift out to do your cast-time blind, no Cheat Death, no Cloak of Shadows, no Mace Stun, no Kick, and no Wound Poison. You'll move better than a rogue, but won't have the control.

It smells like an Enhancement Shaman with Shadowstep, Kidney Shot, Gouge and some added utility.

I like the idea of it, but so far I don't believe it as I simply haven't seen anything from the Alpha yet that includes a Dire Catform.

The wiki poster who posted the tooltip claimed to have inside information and that Dire Cat Form is in the conceptual stage and not, in fact, anywhere in the alpha files.

I read similar in a few places, perhaps they were all based on the same possible [mis]information. If that is the case, it probably should not be discussed here as I think that puts it against the forum rules.

WotLK, Leaks, and You

What?

Rogues are dealing 2600dps. A 15% increase for Druids would still put them at below Enhancement Shaman levels (2070dps vs 2100dps for shaman)

It's answered a couple of dozen times in the feral megathread (the place that isn't discussing WotLK), but the consensus was that, unless you were farming Kil'Jaeden were able to take every piece of DPS leather, you used 2t4/4t6, and if you did take every piece, you gained something like 50 dps.