Feral Druid Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Gaining Clearcasting from Omen Of Clarity increases your chance to critically strike by 5% for 4 sec.
• (4) Set Bonus: Rake damage increased by 20%. Clearcasting increases Shred or Swipe damage by an additional 15%.

Tier Set Discussion:

Overall, the set is entirely passive in terms of gameplay. For talents, it means we’re always taking Moment of Clarity to gain additional Clearcasting procs in order to gain more from the set.

You should always prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Feral Druid, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

As Feral, you generally want to have 1 on-use stat trinket to use with your cooldowns.

Algeth'ar Puzzle Box can be farmed from dungeons and is by far the strongest trinket you can get. Even on champion track, it is better than any other trinket in the game. If for whatever reason you decide you do not want to play it, the next best stats-on-use trinket is Emberwing Feather, but it's not unlikely that going double-passive is better. As always you should sim this to know.

As for your secondary trinket, or your ‘stat stick,’ if you raid, then you’ll want either Umbral Plume/Radiant Plume or Gaze Of The Alnseer. They’re equally good, but Gaze is significantly easier to get given it’s from an early boss. Both trinkets are much better than every other.

From M+, your options are Heart of the Wind or Solarflare Prism - and again, you should sim to find out what’s best for your setup.

Honorable mention for your passive slot is Crucible Of Erratic Energies, which comes for free from the Voidstorm reputation, and despite being champion track is strong enough to compete with all hero track passive trinkets. Just make sure you get the console buffs, which work in all content.

Sporefall Loot

The new raid will higher item level loot:

• Festerbloom Crown
• Sash Of The Putrid Giant
• These will be strict upgrades, with or without catalyzing due to the ilvl boost. You can sim to decide if you want to catalyze them.
• Rotmire's Sporeheart
• Due to the ilvl its as good as a same-track Amulet of Abyssal Hymn (L’ura neck), however it’s much easier to get on mythic.
• Sporecaller's Blooming Loop
• The ring is very good and we’ll be pairing it with Eye Of Midnight ideally. If you don’t have Eye of Midnight, it’s probably still worth using Sporecaller’s Blooming Loop, even over the NPX set, with whichever ring sims highest for your 2nd slot.
• Sporelord's Mycelial Insignia
• Not a great trinket, but due to the ilvl it might be an okay choice if you don’t have gaze/plume.

Cantrip Items

These are items with special effects or stats that come for free. These items are better than every alternative in the slot because some damage > no damage.

Necklaces:

• Amulet Of The Abyssal Hymn - extra socket slot
• Eternal Voidsong Chain - <0.1% extra shadow damage (conditional)
• Rotmire's Sporeheart - shield proc that can explode for some damage

Rings:

• Eye Of Midnight - extra socket slot
• Occlusion Of Void + Omission Of Light - ~0.5% extra shadow damage
• Eredath Seal Of Nobility + Band Of The Triumvirate - avoidance boost
• Sporecaller's Blooming Loop - ~0.5% extra nature damage

The best embellishment is Arcanoweave Lining. It not only provides the most stats to you, but even buffs allies.

Loa Worshiper's Band’s effect is as good as Arcanoweave Lining, and if you are using it, you can also put Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier on your other crafted piece. Keep in mind it does require some sockets on your gear to get going.

It's good to remember that embellishments in general are quite minor, so even if you don’t craft the best one it’s really not a big deal. Most of the power of crafts early comes from the item level bump.

First Crafts

As is the case for most classes, weapon item level is incredibly important for us as well. This means crafting a 285 weapon early will definitely be the biggest upgrade you can get.

However, with the introduction of Nebulous Voidcores (bonus rolls) in 12.0.5, even as a fresh character you have access to myth track items as long as you complete +10s. Both places that you want to bonus roll for trinkets (Algethar Academy & Chimaerus) also drop weapons, so you probably don’t want to burn sparks on that.

With that in mind, your choices are just crafting the long-term BIS options, or filling out non-myth track slots. Between bonus rolls, uncapped crests and the amount of sparks we have, you can craft quite a bit as long as you spend the time farming out keys.

Don’t forget you can and should sim all of this through Raidbots droptimizer and topgear when making decisions.

BIS Crafts

Long term, you’ll want your crafts on lower stat budget slots like bracers & cloak, since you’ll have myth track items everywhere and crafted items are lower item-level than that. In some cases, replacing secondary stats on one item might be better than the minor gain from stat-budget optimizations, so crafting gloves can be okay too.

There are two sim profiles that are tied for the highest:1) crafted bracer + cloak with Arcanoweave Lining, 2) Loa Worshipper’s Band + a bracer or cloak with Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier.

The results are all within margin of error, for both ST and AoE, so you can go with whichever one you prefer.

Here is the sim so you can see for yourself how close everything is: https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/pugL1ukEaRBYWqdunJdbVT

Missives

You should always sim to find out what secondary stats are best to put on your crafted gear. This can be done via Topgear, where you can add items through the search bar and change the stats of crafted ones. Stats can also be changed through the little + icon on the item itself.

If you don’t want to bother with simming, the safe option is haste & mastery (Thalassian Missive Of The Feverflare).

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

Recommended acquisition order:

1. Myth Algeth'ar Puzzle Box - by far the most important trinket plus it comes from m+ so it’s cheaper to roll for it compared to raid items.
2. Any Myth track Weapon - if you do not already have one, you should consider getting one asap. There are two in the loot pool of Algeth’ar Academy, which lines up well with farming puzzle box.
3. Gaze Of The Alnseer - easier to get between the two best passive trinkets, can be worth going for on Heroic as well but since the mythic Chimaerus can be pugged quite easily, it's recommended you do that.
4. Neck / Ring from Rotmire - the ring is ideally paired with the l’ura ring, and the neck is the 2nd best after l’ura neck. Depending on how hard it is to kill on Mythic, you might want to roll on it before L’ura.
5. Rare Neck / Ring from L’ura - prime targets for this system given the ability to guarantee them. You can skip the neck if you have the Rotmire one, but you’ll still want the ring. Remember to use sim to help you with the decision.

If you do not raid mythic, it is possible that heroic versions of some of these are better than a myth m+ item, and you can sim this to know for sure.

Once you have these items, you can spend your bonus rolls however you want. Targeting the last few slots you don’t have a myth item on through Mythic+ is always good.

Ascendant Voidcores

Given that there are no special weapons, and the trinkets are basically locked in to puzzlebox and gaze / plume, the upgrade priority is fairly straightforward:

1. Weapon - by far the most important slot to have the highest ilvl possible in, so naturally you want to upgrade it asap.
2. Trinket - upgrading your passive trinket first (Gaze Of The Alnseer or Radiant Plume / Umbral Plume) is marginally better than Algeth'ar Puzzle Box.

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Feral Druid:

• Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: I’m personally going Rune Of Self-Mending, but you can go with either one here.
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering (no choice)
• Row 4: Probably Rune Of Burning Haste, but you’ll ideally want to sim this one because it’ll depend on your gear.
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

The choices here are all fairly close.

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.