BC Druid Talents

[Trien]

I can't seem to find where it is, but I know it is there.

Cats and bears have an innate "weapon". Check out patch 1.7 where it says "Cat Form - The base weapon damage of the form has been increased."

I believe cat form is 40 dps 1.0 spd and bear is 40 dps 3.0 spd. Those numbers are probably for level 60, if I didn't get it wrong. That is why "chance on hit" weapons don't work - you are using your "claws" and not the weapon on your paper doll. Your skill with that weapon is always capped at clvl*5 - that just means you don't have to train it, it doesn't relate to the actual damage you do (unless you are trying to gnaw a boss to death, then you cry at itemization). If the feral skill was related to the damage done, a kitty would get 350 white DPS - I assure you that is not the case.

If those are the real talents then that description of Mangle will probably be changed, or that description is the internal (datamined) description - which you can see currently refers to a bear's weapon.

I went and calculated this on my 60 druid once for cat (and for some reason neglected to do the same for bear), namely because all I can ever do to increase my damage is up my AP, while I'm stuck with the same weapon which can't be upgraded (until 60+ levels come along). Even though a cat druid can hit the higest AP of any class in the game... we're stuck with that same weapon.

The number I came up with (post-1.7) was 43 - 66 (54dps). Which is roughly equivalent to single-wielding a MC-class dagger (Corehound 51dps, Perditions 58dps). How well you fare in damage output otherwise depends on the rest of your stats... hence why the current crop of druids' complaints are that while pre-raid gear druid damage is okay, once you start hitting MC/BWL other classes far outstrip the druid. My druid hit 60 a long long time ago so I can't speak on this at all, being used to having low DPS which has seen noted improvement only with 1.7/1.8 and the newer AQ40 gear (and Naxx stuff which I have yet to acquire...).

Now that makes me wonder... given a rogue/warrior duel-wielding two weapons (x DPS + y DPS), what single-wield DPS would that equate to?