To Coldbear:

You are stating that you are having threat issues, and I'm guessing that it's in the start of a fight. Feral druids really can output a lot of damage in the beginning of the fight, especially if we get a hysteria together with our berserk. In some fights, I have a paladin giving me Hand of Salvation to counter this specific problem. And yes, more TotT & MD's will help, a lot.

I also noticed, that you do not get hysteria consistently together with berserk. Hysteria is a 3 minute cooldown, just as berserk, so either making a seperate whisper macro, or to include a whisper in a macro together with Berserk is recommended. The reason why Feral Druid is the best target for hysteria (If gear / player skill is not considered) is because we have a strong cooldown coupled with 100% physical dmg. So you are not using hysteria to its full potential.

Also many of the more popular trinkets (Runestone, Banner, Death's Embrace, DM:G) trigger almost immediately at the beginning of a fight. That combined with berserking can result in a long string of extra damaging critting attacks right at the start.

WoW Meter Online - Combatlog Replay

http://www.wowmeteronline.com/combat/7961471#damageout

WoW Meter Online - Combatlog Replay

WoW Meter Online - Combatlog Replay

Those are all Ulduar parses.

Here's some TOC/TOGC

WoW Meter Online - Combatlog Replay

WoW Meter Online - Combatlog Replay

WoW Meter Online - Combatlog Replay

Imageshack - koralanrecount2

Koralan dps, or kind of like patchwerk really (same health)

Could you cats post some Anub'arak parses for comparison?

Some mine:
World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis (lucky)
World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis (lucky)
World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis (unlucky)

WoW Meter Online - Combatlog Replay Only one I can find unfortunately, and yeah DKs and rogues are too competitive these days to give out their buffs >.>

VoA, ToC, Onyxia typical raid:

World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis

No Manglebot, No Hysteria, No Tricks, No potions, flasked for some with 80ap food.

Koralon 9700
H. Beasts 6800
H. Jarax 7600
H. Champs 6000
H. Twins 10,500

H Anub Wipes - 7700

R anub 7300

World of Logs - Jaraxxus 25 Hard Kill

World of Logs - ToC 25

I'm usually mainspec tank, but I got to play with cat tonight for a while. I'm gemmed for armor pen, 745 with Hearty Rhino, using Mjolnir. No hysteria, tricks, flasked, another cat but not a reliable manglebot. I feel like I did pretty good, but that there is much potential for improvement with gear.

I'm also in the very frustrating position of sifting through all the garbage to figure out what my ideal stats to reach for are. Twice as much now that I'm applying and being tested in a new guild. I have some WoL dps reports, any input as to how my actual "rotation" can improve, or if I should be favoring some abilities more than others, would be greatly appreciated.

PS: I don't AoE the majority of the time for any Anub logs posted. Our aoe has proven sufficient without me, and I simply swipe on clearcasting for the adds.

The World of Warcraft Armory - I have another chestpiece, non-heroic armor of shifting shadow.



World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis - HM Jaraxxus 10

World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis - Anub Wipe 6.5 min

World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis - Anub Wipe 6.3 min

World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis - Anub Kill

World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis - An older log for AoI


Notes: I'm agility gemmed atm, although I was ArP pre-nerf. I do not have an ArP trinket, I use Blood of the Old God and DM:G for the majority of fights.

Wel i only looked at the jaraxxus, but in my experiance feral dps depends alot on raid setup.
At jaraxxus you had a arms warrior, so forget mangle, save your energy for al your other ability's, trauma replaces and knocks off mangle anyway.

I always open with FF,rake (just for the 2 set bonus of T8) followed by a SR, then shred TF shred, shred, until you have your 5 cp, IF your out of luck and only have3 you prob need to refresh rake anyway.
If you got your 5 points even better.

Normaly your SR is about to run out but again, 1cp SR or 5 doenst matter as long as its up.

Shred for cp's and just try to see what you get, 4CP for SR is more then enough to get a second 5CP to reaply rip when its gone.

The only thing besides the fight you must look at is that SR is always up, rake en rip are apply'd.

If you have both up, 5cp and 12-15sec left on your rip, i use bite but only if im surtain that i can have another 5CP if any of them run out.

I always try to refresh rip if i see that rip and SR wil run out at the same time, sinds 1cp = 14 sec SR but 1cp rip is fail at dps and useless to apply.

Its even better to keep shredding with 5 cp ready then to bite and try to get them back in time to apply SR/rip.

Last point, i always try to start Berserk asap, sinds if the fight last longer then 3 min i can use it 2ce.

So small recap.
Keep SR up (prior).
Keep rake en rip up (dps AND OOC of your T8).
Berserk asap after first rotation to hope for a second)
Shred shred shred (better to do 3 shreds with 5 cp up then do a bite, and not make it in time to apply SR AND RIP (bite 16-20k, shred 3x 12k but you get the point)
Forget mangle if you have a trauma war/druid tank.
Oh and keep blood dk's with hysteria happy, so they give it to you :p

Sorry it this seems to much info

edited, assumed that "increasing dmg done by" would effect rip/rake

Thanks for the input, however I did not have an arms warrior for that fight. I don't ever really have one. I've recently taken 3 points out of FB damage and put it into swipe, for anub arak. With that, I've also been trying harder to keep a higher uptime on my bleeds, at the sacrifice of a few combo points here and there if they're going to collide with SR or something. Again, any other input would be appreciated.

I'll be able to post a few more logs from tonight later, mostly ToC normal (surprisingly with a feral tank), as well as some wipes to ToGC beasts, though I'm unsure how well you can measure dps on them.