1.10 item changes

[Kevin]

It can be a fill in for feral, but I find it a fill in at best.  Reasoning:

Agi is more important than AP.  Agi gives AP in cat, dodge in bear, and crit in both (well, dodge in cat but that's not too important).

Str = AP.  They're completely equal, given itemization formula and bear/cat AP formula.  The same isn't true for Rogues (1 AP = 1 Str, and AP costs half Str), so Rogues need to focus on AP more.

There's BoE pieces in most slots that could replace Cadaverous.

Better than having a green feral piece, probably, but since it's tweaked towards the 2 best stats for a Rogue (AP, Sta), it lacks in important stats for feral.
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Keep in mind the heart of the wild talent makes str even better for cats as you get 20% more str in cat form with it. I have to agree that Blizzard is trying to make a distintion on leather that +str is feral druid and +AP is rogue. Now, like you said either side of that equation can be upgrade gear for either class.

So 20 str = 48 AP in cat instead of just 40 if you have heart of the wild. The agi still does a 1 to 1 conversion of course.

But yeah I'm happy with some of these changes I'm seeing. Better for rogues and better for feral druids. Set bonus's could still make it quite attractive to both as well (stats on shadowcraft are actually pretty decent for feral druids but some of the bonuses do nothing for them as you with a 60 druid and 60 rogue are well aware. :) )