My SR tooltip indicates 12 Energy with berserk active. Is the tooltip incorrect?

Gearing for all stam will never be a mistake. For the most part, it won't make a difference in your survivability either way-- a bear who's in most-recent-content gear can survive anything. But things that can tip things either direction include:

- How many paladins your raid has. Beacon makes it so a paladin will be casting heals whether you need it or not, which means you aren't saving them any mana by gearing for avoidance. Lean towards stam when you typically have two holy paladins in the raid.
- How undergeared you might be. If you're undergeared, go stam.
- How much you use the gear for DPS. If you're a bear for one phase of a fight and cat the rest, lean towards agility.

In the recently released Guide: How To Feral DPS this is discussed around 11:30 into the movie but I'd love to hear commentary on how it can be improved.
Viddler.com - Guide: How To Feral DPS - Uploaded by parl2001
YouTube - Guide How To Feral DPS part ONE of two
Guide: How To Feral DPS By Cold - World of Warcraft Movies

15 - MAXIMAL DPS STANDARD INITIAL ENGAGEMENT PROCEDURE

0. Pop a Potion of Speed as close as possible to, but still before entering Combat.
[Assuming you can rely on not having aggro issues early. The tank will probably be popping a potion as well assuming he's good at his job.]

1. FFF unless a boomkin will apply IFF in the first seconds and keep it up
[if necessary use FC to close the gap - you can apply FFF while flying through the air.]

2. Mangle
[Do NOT bother with Pounce or Ravage, they are net dps losses]

3. SR and from now on - if Clearcast then Shred

4. Rake

5. immediately Tiger's Fury, but you must press the button after the Rake

6. Berserk - This immediately drops the TF buff but it's more important to get Berserk on cooldown asap, and you don't want to Berserk at low energy (50-85 energy with 85 being ideal??).

7. Continue with the regular DPS priority algorithm as described earlier.

Note: A consistent problem I find myself facing is toward the tail end of a Berserk phase when getting tunnel vision and not paying enough attention to synchronized SR and Rip timers running out concurrently. Solution: don't get tunnel vision. For Heroic Anub'Arak I even brought out my old sticky-on-the-computer-monitor solution from the Thaddius days to remind myself about Shattering Throw Scheduling and keeping 9 seconds on SR and Rip before FB'ing.

Hysteria may put you over the top occasionally, and I've had instances of malicious Blood DKs trying to get me to pull aggro on purpose that way. Plan ahead if this becomes an issue - Vigilance and Hand of Salv macros can help.

TF should never be used right before an FB - you want to FB with as little energy as possible as it's horrible DPE otherwise.

There are similarities between the above Maximal DPS Standard Initial Engagement Procedure and during-fight extra dps availablities/required burst dps sequences like XT heart phase - Icehowl stun - heroic Lord Jaraxxus portal/volcano, but to me they're different enough to warrant a new look.

Situation: short, i.e. ten-seconds-or-less timeframe needing extra dps.
Problem: A very limited number of GCDs to accomplish what you want.
Solution: talk about it ahead of time, maximize raid burst synergy and have your gear and consumables set up for ease of operation

Consider:
1. getting on the boomkin's case about how quickly IFF comes up
2. Hysteria - talk it over, remember many raiders have fragile egos, and winning an argument with numbers may be outweighed by sour grapes.
3. Shattering Throw
4. Sunder Armours - [any other not-strictly-automatic buffs/debuffs I'm missing here?]
5. Potion of Speed and "Here's your friendly reminder to pop your potions on the first portal guys!" in vent.
6. ENERGY is huge. If you're sitting on an empty energy bar right before the dps availability/requirement, then you just screwed yourself and possibly the raid. If you did great dps on Heroic Lord Jaraxxus before the first portal but couldn't close it before two mistresses appeared, your raid just failed miserably and you may have contributed to the failure. Remind people about it - Energy for ferals and rogues, max rage and runic power for warriors/DKs etc.
7. Pre-burn Berserk about one second before the portal spawns. Set up your Berserk/Hysteria macro like this and notify the DK so he has enough time to react without screwing his own rotation up and getting you Hysteria before the portal spawns:

#showtooltip Berserk
/use [nomod:shift] Berserk
/use [nomod:shift] Sulfuron Slammer
/stopmacro [nomod:shift]
/w Kastille BERSERK A GO GO!
/ w Asreif BERSERK A GO GO!

* Safe to use regularly in pvp/bg's/whatever, then when raiding with a Blood DK who's going to provide you with Hysteria, hit Shift + Macro hotkey - get Hysteria - then hit button normally and go to town. If you run with several different Blood DK's on a regular basis, just make a line for each of them but disable the line by putting a space between the "/" and the "w".

Why the Sulfuron Slammer? - Makes things look pretty, puts a different-looking notification into everyone's chat frame (which has gotten me Hysteria in the past when I've forgotten to notify the Blood DK), but could possibly self-stun you if the fight goes on for too long or you mash the button.

8. Last, if you end up burning 5CP on a SR (normally a good thing) during a dps availability/requirement - while missing synchronized Rip/SR timers or other priority, you'll feel mighty stupid. Solution is to make sure you have a fairly long-duration SR up before the burst dps period comes along.

@Murna
Well, if you SR before popping berserk, you have to pool energy for an extra 2s, putting off the berserk. If you find yourself waiting anyway, it's certainly worth it, of course. As 2s isn't a big deal, I guess the major question is how much time tends to be left on the first SR before you get up the second one, as that's not a time when you want it to drop off. You're gcd limited at that point, so at worst it's 11s (10x cp generation + rip), although ~8s is probably more reasonable. If you pool to 85 before berserk, that's 3.4+2-1.5=2.9s, plus 1s for the gcd from berserk, giving a total of 11.9s typical (14.9 worst). Looks like that would work fine. Putting off both berserk and TF for 2s might cost you in the long run, though probably not.

@coldbear
I dunno about using TF before berserk. I understand that you want to get the energy benefit from it as soon as possible, but you're both wasting the non-energy part of the ability, and I've had problems getting enough cb after the fb at the end of the sequence to refresh rip in a timely fashion. (Well, by refresh I mean put up a new one right after the old one goes down, of course.) So, let's say your method gets 15s worth of TF more than mine (as a rough approximation). That's 30 energy, or about 3/4 of a shred. Then the question is is that enough to account for ~3 tics of lost rip (again, a rough approximation)? I don't think it is.

Also, if your reference to not using TF before FB was directed to me, that's not what I was saying. I was saying that it's useful to keep TF available, so you can use if after the FB, when you're out of energy and cb, and your rip is falling off in short order.

I've been feral for nearly all of my druid's playtime, but I'm putting together a healing set to allow more flexibility with our 10-man heroic group and wanted to sanity-check the gear weightings I've been using. As a note, I'm more interested in their relative weights post-3.3 than with current usefulness and I do not plan to take Celestial Focus, which means my haste "cap" will be around 850.

The numbers I'm using (and can't for the life of me remember where I grabbed them from) are:
Spellpower = 1
Mana / 5 = 1.1
Spirit = 0.7
Intellect = 0.6
Haste = 1
Crit = 0.1

Do these look like reasonable numbers? Obviously it's not an exact science, but wanted a decent starting point until I get my experience with what feels "comfortable."

Your stat weights aren't bad, I guess. If you have Replenishment in your raid, I would completely ignore "weight" from MP5. It isn't bad, but you would want to look more into Spell Power and Haste. Also, why wouldn't you get CF? It allows you to get NG too, which is good for 10 mans, where Nourish/Regrowth will see more daylight.

As far as gemming goes, which is an easy base for "stat weights", I will most likely gem Reckless in all Red and Yellow slots, while putting Purified into Blue (assuming a SP socket bonus) until I reached haste cap. Spellpower and Haste will be your direct itemization choices. One overweight the other mathematically in pure HPS, but I feel haste to cap is going to be important, not just for GCD reduction, but for Rapid Rejuve and Regrowth/Nourish in 10 man content.

I already have Nature's Grace, but since my spell haste is already in the 800's, taking Celestial Focus seems like a waste since I'd already be over the softcap - especially when there are other talents in the resto tree that would be beneficial. I actually don't think I have any mp5 items since the stat budgets typically favor Spirit gear anyhow.

Thanks for your comments, my gemming strategy so far has been as you described: Runed, Reckless and Purified. Pretty much all of my gear currently has haste, with a few ToGC-10 pieces that have a favorable item level or "boomkin" pieces with crit intead of Spirit.

Just looking for confirmation that AGI is no longer the imba stat for feral druids in Cat form.

Looking at the stat weighting it seems that STR is now the preferable stat (for AP generation, and therefore DPS, principally)?

I am not looking for in-depth end game stuff, this is just to try and ensure I am making the best choices in gear that comes up via AH, Quest, Instances etc. as I progress towards 80 (level 57 atm so still a way to go).

DPS for cats is heavily based on combo-point generation, and thus on crits. Agi is the stat you want to be stacking, not Str.

As you progress towards 80 honestly it doesn't matter what weighings you use. Agi and Str are going to be fairly close. That being said, you definitely will be better off with more crit early on.

I'd like to know the value of improved demo shout, demo roar or vindication in some quantitative way. Is it possible to express it as effective health?

I can see that in every forum it is considered a priority to have an improved attack power reduction on a boss, but every in depth discussion I've seen on the numbers is quite old.