Druid Question

[Sei]

It's been a while since I've played my Druid, and recently I've been out questing and noticed this leafy-vine looking thing that appears in the middle of my screen. I know it's showing me that something has proc'd and I should use it, but I can't figure out which one it's telling me to use since I'm feral kitty and none of my buttons are glowing. I was thinking maybe it was a insta-heal thing that doesn't matter which spec you're in it's just to help you out, but none of my heal buttons glowing either.

I'm stumped!! Help me out you hunters with druid alts

[TygerDarkstorm]

It probably means you procced Omen of Clarity or Predatory Strikes which both mean you get a free attack. I don't play feral often so I can't remember exactly what it is, I'll go check on a target dummy.

[TygerDarkstorm]

Confirmed, it's the Clearcasting proc.

[Cialbi]

Omen of Clarity (My feral druid doesn't have Predatory Strikes, being a tank and all). If you can, use it on whatever attack has the highest energy/rage cost.

Also, if your feral druid happens to be a tank like mine, you will see a far less obvious spell alert on occasion; same animation as for Killing Streak on BM hunters, except white (yeah, super helpful when you're leveling through Northrend ). That would be Berserk proccing, which means Mangle's CD has been refreshed and will have no cost if you use it quick enough. Fortunately, Mangle will also light up on your actionbars, which should be far more noticeable.
(Duh! "Feral kitty" should have been a dead giveaway...)

And, Tyger beat me to it *feigns anger*

[Lisaara]

Yup, thats OoC.

[Cialbi]

Also worth mentioning that 4.0.1 (the patch that implemented this new spell alert) made Omen of Clarity a baseline ability that you learn from your trainer. You may or may not have noticed when you went to get yourself retrained. Same effect as always; when procced, next ability you use has no mana/rage/energy cost and no cast time.

[Sei]

Aye!! Thanks. So from what I gather the OoC works with any button I choose to hit ... /sigh no wonder I didn't see any glowing alerts telling me which buttons the proc belonged too. I plan to go tanky with my feral when my guild requires it, but I'm mainly staying kitty until I get to 85.

Thanks though, really appreciate the help. Was trying to google it and was coming up with nothing. Found something similar in the wow forums -- but people were chewing the guy out for no reason, basically just because he asked a question they felt he should have know the answer to. Yeah no way was I asking them lol

[TygerDarkstorm]

This is just for further clarity for you: http://www.wowhead.com/spell=16864
I believe it can proc off auto attacks as well, although I never got an OoC proc DPSing a dummy as a cat, but I got one when I went into bear form even though they're almost the same spec. XD
Feral's a lot of fun. It's interesting to get used to tanking though since their cooldowns work a little differently from other tanks, but it's been fun to learn.

[Cialbi]

The only other option for OoC procs would be to light up your actionbars like a Christmas tree by highlighting every single ability that would consume the proc, which would only serve to confuse and bewilder.

TygerDarkstorm, RNG is random. If autoattacks in bear form trigger OoC, I don't see why the same isn't true for cat form.

[Lisaara]

Druids would be ADD.....XD

[TygerDarkstorm]

TygerDarkstorm, RNG is random. If autoattacks in bear form trigger OoC, I don't see why the same isn't true for cat form.

Oh I know, I just thought it was really odd that roughly 2 minutes on the dummy in cat form didn't net a single OoC proc, then as soon as I went bear form, I got one within 30 seconds. It was just an interesting observation on my behalf.

[Sei]

Awesome awesome, well that helps. And saves me from hunting for the button every time it appears on my screen. It's going to take me some time getting used to my druid again, I've been playing my hunter since cata. I'm also going to have to relearn how to bear tank QQ

[TygerDarkstorm]

Bear tanking is hella easy.
I have a macro for swipe and thrash that casts swipe first, and then when I press it again, it casts thrash.
For bosses, threat is so easy--cast beserk and spam the crap out of Mangle and you gain like instant threat.

The rotation/priority is:
Mangle (press this every time it's off CD, it's our hardest hitting ability)
Lacerate (stack it to three times; you can also tab target this during your AoE rotation to maintain threat)
Pulverize when Lacerate is at 3 stacks
Only cast Maul when you have 80+ rage

[Sei]

Nice, thanks for the tips Ty. I've been messing around a bit today as bear just trying to get the feel of it. Haven't tried tanking anything yet, looking to get a guild run in for practice. Just hit 83 today though

[TygerDarkstorm]

You have Thrash now which is nice in helping keep AoE aggro with Swipe. ^_^
I would definitely recommend practicing with your guild since they'll be a lot nicer while you learn than a PuG probably will.

I've also found that running my boyfriends lowbies through dungeons helps when learning the boss rotation.