- Weapon - Either save 150 badges for the Staff of the Forest Lord or run Battle Grounds for the Gladiator's Maul or Merciless Gladiator's Maul... if you get lucky maybe the Terestian's Stranglestaff falls in Kara and you can save the time or badges. Fleshling Simulation Staff or Wildcaller are both quest rewards and an option until you get any of the above. As was pointed out by another reader in comments, Earthwarden is also a wonderful alternative until an Arena weapon, Badge weapon, or the Kara staff falls. You will need Cenarion Expedition rep to the tune of exalted and some gold but EW is the tanking weapon of choice until the SSC drop and on par with many others for Kitty DPS. Staff of Natural Fury from the AH is another option but EW is most likely going to be less gold and will offer more mitigation when soloing.
- Chest - Get a Shadowprowler's Chestguard crafted, that is the fastest and easiest upgrade. Chestguard of the Conniver also works, another Kara drop. I am currently running around in Vengeful Gladiator's Dragonhide Tunic so if you want to dump some time in arena this is another option.
- Pants - Hope that Netherspite drops Skulker's Greaves, from quest either Shattrath Leggings or Clefthoof Hide Leggings, Trousers of the Scryers' Retainer if you have the badges, Arena for Vengeful Gladiator's Dragonhide Legguards is an option as is BG's for Merciless Gladiator's Dragonhide Legguards.
- Head - Helm of the Claw is a quest reward, try for that until you get your Stag-Helm of Malorne off prince or do some arena for the Vengeful Gladiator's Dragonhide Helm. You really want your T4 helm however, make this a priority if you are raiding Kara.
- Neck - Get Exalted with SSO and pick up the Shattered Sun Pendant of Might. It was pointed out to me which I had kinda forgot being Aldor and all that the Scryer's version is not so hot for kitty DPS. Not sure how true this is with Emmeralds list having it higher than the Aldor version. However, if Emmerald is wrong (which can happen) get a Necklace of the Deep crafted or Necklace of Trophies from AH. Mithril Chain of Heroism or Worgen Claw Necklace are the Kara possible upgrades.
- Shoulders - Expedition Scout's Epaulets another quest reward, or Shoulderpads of the Silvermoon Retainer a Heroic MrT drop. Blackened Leather Spaulders are a vendor item and acceptable also though you will need Revered with the Kurenai. I would think running Heroic MrT for the shoulders and a shot at Shard of Contempt would be worth the time. Bladed Shoulderpads of the Merciless are the Kara drop upgrade.
- Back - Get a Vengeance Wrap crafted, fast and easy. Drape of the Dark Reavers another drop from Kara or Badge reward Dory's Embrace is another option.
- Wrist - Run Battle Grounds for Vindicator's Dragonhide Bracers, it's worth it. Bracers of Maliciousness is the Kara drop option.
- Hands - Windslayer Wraps another crafted, fast and easy until you get Gauntlets of Malorne off of Curator. Getting T4 gloves is also very important. Gloves of Dexterous Manipulation from Kara or badge reward Handwraps of the Aggressor work too.
- Waist - More PvP and BG's for Vindicator's Dragonhide Belt, Waistguard of the Great Beast is a nice dual purpose item and is worth the badges if you can spare them. Girdle of Treachery is another Kara drop that works too.
- Feet - Hope that Edgewalker Longboots falls from Moroes, Fel Leather Boots crafted would be a fast and easy way to go until they do. If you have more badges than you can spend get Nyn'jah's Tabi Boots. Sunrage Treads falls off Kael in Heroic MrT and are another option.
- Rings - Overseer's Signet, Kaylaan's Signet, Slayer's Mark of the Redemption are all quest reward rings. If you have the badges buy Angelista's Revenge. A'dal's Command and Shapeshifter's Signet are also good if you have the rep and can buy them. Garona's Signet Ring and Ring of a Thousand Marks are the Kara upgrades.
- Trinkets - Crystalforged Trinket from revered Ogri'la rep I am still using while I continue to wait for something better. Darkmoon Card: Crusade from combining Blessings cards from AH is damn good (This is my current trinket setup and I am raiding in Hyjal, both easy to get). Shard of Contempt as I mentioned above is currently #1 for Kitty DPS, see one of my previous posts about doing Magisters' Terrace if you find you are having problems with a successful run.
- Idols - Everbloom Idol or even Idol of Terror would be ok if you already have it for tanking and can't spare the badges.
Final Tips
- Fill all your sockets with Delicate Living Ruby, Glinting Noble Topaz, and Shifting Nightseye. Only use the Shifting Nightseye and Glinting Noble Topaz to meet the gem requirement for Relentless Earthstorm Diamond in your helm.
- Get everything you can enchanted for DPS. Shoot for agility enchants on gloves, cloak, weapon, and boots. Get rep helm and shoulder enchants. If you can't get agility get strength, ap, or stats... in that order.
- Get some Grilled Mudfish or Warp Burger
- Get some Elixir of Major Agility
- Get some Adamantite Weightstone
- Spend time trying to get your T4 helm and gloves, the 2 piece bonus is awesome and feral kitties wear these 2 items until Sunwell gear.
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12 comments:
Be careful about the neck. The Aldor one is great, but the scryer one is not so hot.
Yeah, I kinda forgot about that... In that case get the Necklace of the Deep which is crafted and drop in 2 pure agility gems.
Just as a "point of wondering"...
How about Earthwarden for the weapon?
It's +700-odd Feral Combat plus Expertise rating - not as good as the top DPS weapons, but better than some of those mentioned...
And Enchanted with Agility it gives a good boost in general Kitty stuff...
@Stobnor
Excellent point! A matter of fact I used EW until I was able to get the S1 Mace for kitty DPS, I had just forgotten. I am going to add it!
i really dont get how you corny bloggers post all this wack ass gear and claim its to be so friggin awesome when you guys clearly have not seen all of the end game content and the phat lewtz that are out there for feral druids bear/kitty you should do more game playing and less game analyzing nub.
Great list!
My experience with the SSO neckpiece: On proc it does an additional 700+ damage to the mob.
I tend to get at least one proc on equla level opponents, sometimes two.
@Anonymous,
Lrn2read you retard, here is part of the beginning of the post since you obviously missed it.
"obviously there is some better gear that can be had from 25 mans that you might be able to get for your offspec but I am not covering that in this post."
Epic Fail on your part.
@Eric
Yes, apparently the math has been broken down on the Scryer's neck and it works out to be decent and about the same dmg as the aldor. However, I hear it's proc can cause some nasty mispulls and such just by targeting a boss and having it proc.
Nice post, Jacemora!
On the scryer neck: they've fixed misprocs on bosses; it only procs when you do damage now, so it works all the time. It's pretty good, especially early on. It also uses the melee crit rate instead of the spell crit rate, which helps cats even more.
From all my math I've found that the two best 2pT4 to go for are the head and shoulders, not head and hands. Especially since there is such a good opportunity to get better hands both in raids and from badges. Still, the important thing is to get 2pT4 as quickly as possible, and that's almost certainly Kara.
@Kalon
Thanks for the post.
Yeah, head and shoulders are the way to go but shoulders means getting to a Gruul's raid and I left out 25 man raids on purpose.
Best way to go through T5 is helm and shoulders with badge hands. T6 is supposedly shoulders and chest or to ditch 2T4 altogether.
Cloak of the craft is a fine option for very little cash (and no gem needed). It rates even higher than the others under the "High Gear Cat DPS" model. (And +hit mostly isn't a bad thing.)
Thanks Keith, yes cloak of the craft is a fine alternative and probably much cheaper. I really did focus on epic gear where I could though.
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