Feral Combat pairs Bear-form defense and Rage effects with Cat-form damage, Energy, and Combo Point talents. The community read reports six new entries and places Berserk at 31 points. Blizzard's September 24 notes confirm the Feral renames, while exact rank text remains a reported read of beta client build 1.60.1.70009.
Feral in Forever
The client-read Feral Combat tree lists 19 talents: six new, 13 changed, and none unchanged against Classic Era 1.15.9. Berserk is the reported 31-point capstone.
In tree order. Each talent shows its Forever text at full rank beside Classic Era's, and the first rank that differs when full rank reads the same.
Row 1 open from the first point
Ferocity
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Reduces the cost of your Maul, Primal Bite, Swipe, Claw, and Rake abilities by 5 Rage or Energy.
Classic, 5/5
Reduces the cost of your Maul, Swipe, Claw, and Rake abilities by 5 Rage or Energy.
Heart of the Wild
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Increases your Intellect by 10%. In addition, while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 20% and while in Cat Form your Strength is increased by 10%.
Classic, 5/5
Increases your Intellect by 20%. In addition, while in Bear or Dire Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 20% and while in Cat Form your Strength is increased by 20%.
Row 2 5 points in Feral Combat
Feral Swiftness
Reworked
Forever, 2/2
Increases your movement speed while in Cat Form by 30%, and increases your chance to Dodge by 4%.
Classic as Feline Swiftness, 2/2
Increases your movement speed by 30% while outdoors in Cat Form and increases your chance to dodge while in Cat Form by 4%.
Feral Instinct
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
Increases damage done by your Swipe ability by 30% and reduces the chance enemies have to detect you while Prowling as if you were 3 levels higher.
Classic, 5/5
Increases threat caused in Bear and Dire Bear Form by 15% and reduces the chance enemies have to detect you while Prowling.
Brutal Impact
Reworked
Forever, 2/2
Increases the stun duration of your Bash and Pounce abilities by 1 sec and reduces the cooldown of Bash by 30 sec.
Classic, 2/2
Increases the stun duration of your Bash and Pounce abilities by 1 sec.
Thick Hide
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
While in Bear Form, Cat Form, Dire Bear Form, or Moonkin Form, you gain 3 additional base Armor per level and another 2 base Armor for each point of defense skill beyond five times your level. This amount can be further increased by multipliers from those forms.
Classic, 5/5
Increases your Armor contribution from items by 10%.
Row 3 10 points in Feral Combat
Savage Fury
Reworked
Forever, 2/2
Increases the damage caused by your Claw, Rake, Shred, Maul, and Swipe abilities by 10%.
Classic, 2/2
Increases the damage caused by your Claw, Rake, Maul and Swipe abilities by 20%.
Feral Charge
Reworked
Forever, 1/1
Requires Bear Form, Dire Bear Form. Charge an enemy, immobilizing them and interrupting any spell they are casting for 4 sec. Leap behind an enemy.
Classic, 1/1
Causes you to charge an enemy, immobilizing and interrupting any spell being cast for 4 sec.
5 Rage · 25 yd range · Instant · 15 sec cooldown
Sharpened Claws
Reworked
Forever, 2/2
Increases your critical strike chance while in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, or Cat Form by 6%.
Classic, 3/3
Increases your critical strike chance while in Bear, Dire Bear or Cat Form by 6%.
Row 4 15 points in Feral Combat
Shredding Attacks
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
Reduces the Energy cost of your Shred ability by 18 and reduces the Rage cost of your Lacerate ability by 3.
Classic as Improved Shred, 2/2
Reduces the Energy cost of your Shred ability by 12.
Primal Bite
New
Forever, 1/1
Bite the target for 100% normal damage plus 26.
Requires 2 points in Savage Fury · 20 Rage · Melee Range · Instant · 6 sec cooldown
Predatory Strikes
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
Increases your melee Attack Power in Cat Form, Bear Form, and Dire Bear Form by 150% of your level.
Classic, 3/3
Increases your melee attack power in Cat, Bear and Dire Bear Forms by 150% of your level.
Blood Frenzy
Reworked
Forever, 2/2
Gives you a 100% chance to gain an additional 5 Rage any time you get a critical strike while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form. In addition, your non-periodic critical strikes from Cat Form abilities that generate Combo Points have a 100% chance to add an additional Combo Point.
Classic as Primal Fury, 2/2
Gives you a 100% chance to gain an additional 5 Rage anytime you get a critical strike while in Bear and Dire Bear Form.
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your melee abilities by 20%.
Leader of the Pack
Reworked
Forever, 1/1
While in Cat Form, Bear Form, or Dire Bear Form, the Leader of the Pack increases the critical strike chance of all party members within 45 yards by 3%, exclusive with Moonkin Aura.
Classic, 1/1
While in Cat, Bear or Dire Bear Form, the Leader of the Pack increases ranged and melee critical chance of all party members within 45 yards by 3%.
King of the Jungle
New
Forever, 3/3
Tiger's Fury now instantly grants you 60 Energy.
Row 6 25 points in Feral Combat
Natural Reaction
New
Forever, 5/5
Increases your dodge chance by 5%, and gives you a 100% chance to gain 5 Rage each time you dodge.
Rend and Tear
New
Forever, 5/5
Increases damage done by your melee abilities on Bleeding targets by 10%.
Requires Cat Form, Bear Form, Dire Bear Form. Causes your Primal Bite ability to strike up to 3 targets, removes its cooldown, and increases the critical strike chance of your Combo Point-generating abilities by 100%. Clears and grants immunity to Fear effects for the duration. Lasts 15 sec.
2 more facts, checked Sep 27, 2026; 2 from Blizzard. The 2 headline changes are above. The tag says how sure each one is.
September 24 Feral notesBlizzard confirms Mangle became Primal Bite, Primal Fury became Blood Frenzy, and a Feral Charge (Cat) ally-targeting bug was fixedChangedConfirmedBlizzard forums · September 24 beta notes
Talent milestonesBlizzard lists one-point milestone talents at 11, 21, and 31 points, plus a new 16-point milestoneChangedConfirmedBlizzard · Deep Dive recap
TalentsNames, positions, ranks and text from the community WoW Forever Talents dataset, read from WoW Forever beta client build 1.60.1.70009. Reported
Classic EraThe comparison text comes from Classic Era client build 1.15.9.69722, in the same dataset. Unchanged means the same text as that client, not a Blizzard statement.
