Yup, me too, I would like something that replaces furor, along the lines of a warlock's life tap. If I'm in kitty form, i want to stay in that form and be able to dps, not relying on powershifting to be able to compete with others...

Could just be a wowdb issue. The screenshot I saw on mmo champion a few days ago had FAP as per usual:
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...a_weapons2.jpg

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I was just going to post this... It's odd; no FAP, but the DPS is reduced as well, same reduction as normal feral items, and caster weapons.

EDIT: Beaten... Yeah, I'm thinking just a wowdb display glitch.

Like all other classes, Ferals will continue to see their biggest offensive stat upgrades come from their weapons. Casters have tons of spell damage on their weapons and melee simply see bigger numbers with weapons that have higher top-end damage. I don't see why Ferals should be different.

I expect that with the large consolidation of loot that each raid will have at least one tanking Feral staff and one DPS Feral staff so we'll see upgrades more often than we currently do.

Oops, looks like Lich King talents on Live servers counts as Megathread content, not Lich King content. Question moved.

With the changes to Savage Fury, Improved Mangle, and the 'increased tank dps' line Blizzard has been espousing, has anyone seen or heard anything on the beta forums about Mangle (Bear) being returned to it's original scalable form?

When mangle was introduced, there was a post on the eu boards showing how the +dmg and multipliers were chosen to give cats and bears the equivalent of normalized instant special attacks that would scale similarly to the specials of rogues and warriors due to the multipliers being almost identical. Cats kept the 2.4 multiplier on mangle and the 30% buff to shred, but bears lost their scaling when mangle (bear) was reduced in damage by 30% and the 30% threat buff was added.

From your reply I am guessing the topic has not come up on the beta boards, and may not because mangle (bear) is still performing it's role as our high threat move with a cooldown.

Re-visiting the whole FAP question, the discovery of a second 2H mace in Naxx has me wondering.
Itemising two 2H DPS maces at a given content level would be somewhat absurd considering they're still only usable to 3 classes unless we do end up seeing some change in FAP mechanics so that it will just be tacked onto weapons without replacing white DPS (or we benefit from white DPS directly)

http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...xxramas_01.jpg
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...xxramas_02.jpg

If they don't go the armour from weapons approach, given the FAP treatment that second weapon would make an excellent feral tanking/dps mace, and an excellent Deathknight tanking mace.

Mangle is fine, really. Yes the intitial nerf did hit hard, but you have to remember they semi undid that later. Mangle is now at 115% damage, not quite the 2h scaling we'd wanted, but still it's something. Improved Mangle makes it just that much better. Maybe it's the "Ramparts in AQ40/Naxx Feral leather" effect all over again, but I (level 70) did Utgarde Keep and Nexus last night with a level 77 Warrior dual wielding Torch and the 2.4 badge Axe, and a level 76 Ret Paladin (admittedly, one with no Judgements) and rarely had threat issues, so long as I was allowed to engage first (1-2 seconds lead time on average). 4.5 second cooldown Mangles are brilliant. Berserk is brilliant (I'm sure you've all seen Falk's movie). Swipe is really good (the fourth target is a boon). On Faerie Fired, but non-Sundered trash mobs I was seeing ~2700 Mangle crits in threat gear with only Battle Shout, Might and the Paladin Aura for buffs.

Admittedly, I haven't had a chance yet to compare threat vs the other classes, and by no means is 2 overgeared instance runs enough to formulate a basis of opinion on, but from all reports, threat likely won't be an issue for us.

I really hope they won't make niche items for ferals. As soon as there is a niche item for a certain slot, that would likely end up being considerably better than the alternatives. The result would be that everyone would have to get that certain item and seriously reducing itemization choice.
If they do the gear homogenization well (and the class changes needed for it), then ferals would finally not all run around in the same gear.