Talk to your healers, find out where they're comfortable. Except for very specific circumstances, I don't bother stacking lots of stam, and instead mostly gem for avoidance. After two weeks of Naxx25 and Heroics, I run about 35k raidbuffed, maybe a little more. For Patchwerk hateful soaking, I'm at about 45k. This works out well for my raidgroup.

I am looking for a macro that takes me out of cat form casts rejuvenation and put me back into cat form. It would save me time leveling.

My Swiftmend would look like it could be used when Earthliving was up but it would fail on cast when I tried, the only time it would actually fire off was when there was another HoT (Riptide or RG/RJ) on the target too.
I also had times when Swiftmend would consume both Riptide and Earthliving at the same time - odd.

Something is just annoyingly buggy around the whole thing.

There is no such macro. Rejuv and cat-form both take a GCD, so there's no faster way to do this than to self-cast rejuv and then cast Cat afterward.

Do any macros exist that coordinate bear/cat mangle, and bear/cat charge in 2 buttons? I now have to manually drag and drop these 2 skills every time I switch forms. Needless to say this is very inconvenient.

From an earlier post in another thread:

#showtooltip
/cast [stance:1] Feral Charge - Bear
/cast [stance:3] Feral Charge - Cat

Guessing you can just replace Feral Charge with Mangle... if that answers your question.

I use action bar switching, but if I were a serious pvp'er, I'd use macros instead. The action bar takes some amount of time to switch, and that adds a few tenths of a second (on a slowish computer) to anything you'd be able to do on the other bar immediately. Switching to catform, that's pretty much just trinkets, but switching to castform and hitting cyclone, heal, or any number of other skills needs to be as instant as possible. I get around it by keeping a bunch of caster skills on my cat bar, but I have 3 keybound action bars - any less and it's tough to fit all the skills you need in.

Is there anyway with the other types of heals?

Show me a heal that doesn't incur the GCD, and you'll get your macro.


So, no.

Lifeblood is off the GCD, but is also usable in forms. No macro required. =P

I'm not a serious PvP-er but most of my in-a-hurry abilities are bound to 13 keys (plus movement, shift and ctrl), using macros.

No modifier, in any form = That form's offensive spells or form-specific abilities (Like frenzied regen).
Shifted, in any form = Heals
Ctrl, in any form = Shape-Shift, special defenses (Grasp, Barkskin, Shadowmeld/Prowl) or use an item (trinket, potion, ...)

In feral forms, Ctrl-Shift means use the caster offensive ability for that key (Cyclone, FoN, ...).

Most of the single-target spells will "prefer" a mouseover target if it is has appropriate harm/nodead attributes for the spell.

I do use action-bar switching for the feral forms (otherwise my macros get too long), but the caster-abilities (heals and offensive spells) are included in the feral macros. To cast Rebirth or Cyclone from cat form, I don't have to explicitely shift-out first.

Assuming you have not mucked about with the cVars that control shifting out of shapeshift forms to cast spells:
/cast [stance:3,target=player] Rejuvenation; [nostance] Cat Form

This will incur 2 GCDs, of course. If you find that you spend too much time healing yourself, then get kitted with the +200 HP on XP/honor opponent death trinket (quest reward from Sporeggar in Zangarmarsh) and the improved PvP version from Grizzly Hills and - if needed - put talent points into the +20% healing received while cat. Most of the time, you should be gaining health while killing single mobs using both of those trinkets - but do note the 10 second CD on them.

The main reason I did this was because I didn't have any good trinkets from BC (didn't raid on my Druid) so your mileage may vary.

How important is it to get to the hit cap as Feral dps? Should it be top priority?

Strength will always be our best stat, after that come agility/hit/expertise. So yes hit is good for us, but you shouldn't gem it unless the socket bonus is really good as well.

I disagree. The cost of missing a savage roar or a rip is pretty large, as is fewer OoC procs. More hit/expertise also makes the cycle go far more smoothly.

I've been using self heal macros forever, which are simple

/cast [target=player] Whatever Spell

that I keep hot keyed to something easily accessible. They won't put you back in forms, but they certainly will take you out of whatever form you're in and cast the spell. And it won't de-select whatever target you have at the time. Quite handy.

I think that's the macro text anyway, I haven't looked at them in forever.

Short answer = yes.

Easy upgrades :
Offhand = Badges.
Trinket = Badges.
Belt = Cloth from badges.
Rings = Heroic stratholme & utgarde keep (I think it is).

Or even easier : Try enchanting your gear


Seeing that you allready have Naxx 25 gear I dont understand your question though?
If its because you have trouble performing then work on your gear outside raids, there's loads of items that could easily be improved.

I'm afraid this has probably been asked 1000 times by now so I don't want to spam Rawr's thread more than I already did

Simply put:
Executioner / Mongoose / Berserking / Massacre

From Astrylian's response, I gather that it's:
Berserking>Mongoose>Massacre, but I'm not sure on where Executioner falls in as I heard some rumours that it was or is better than Mongoose.

What are the optimal meta choices?

For bear - I would guess Austere Earthseige is hands down winner

For cat - I would guess the crit damage boost one is still best

For tree - I just don't know - 21int + regen proc, Spell power + (something)?

For Tree, I'm looking to get [Ember Skyflare Diamond]. Boomkin I believe the best is [Chaotic Skyflare Diamond], but I could be wrong.

Why wouldn't you use Insightful for Tree?

Because you lose spellpower compared to [Ember Skyflare Diamond]. Myself I chose [Tireless Skyflare Diamond] because I like having the minor speed effect. This is assuming you don't find yourself out of mana anymore.