Conquernfool is my first character that I’ve played in WoW and he is a lvl 58 druid with a talent spec in mostly in Feral. I just randomly chose talents with pretty good success. However, at 58 I still didn’t have mangle. So, based on your suggestions I respec’ed. I mainly do Solo work in cat form and selected those talents. I’ve tried to work on some mobs in Outland HFP with fair success, but after respec’n I’m doing much better. The next step is to start making macros to help with tedious tasks of switching out of cat to heal and back into cat quickly. Thanks for you posts.

Conquernfool, that is good to hear. I’m glad things are working a little better.

Your comments did inspire me to make sure I mentioned one key thing about Mangle if you are new to it.

If you are soloing in cat feral-specced, Mangle is an amazing ability. You’ll see that everyone pretty much agrees on that. The thing is, rarely do you see anyone say why they think Mangle is such a no brainer. After all, there are no lack of abilities on your cat bar to suck away your energy.

What Mangle does is replace your Claw ability outright.

If you have Mangle, you should never use Claw.

Let’s look at both for a second.

This is your Mangle that you can train at level 50, compared to your Claw that you can train at level 58.

Both Mangle and Claw are instant, and use 45 energy (in cat).
Both of them have their base costs reduced in exactly the same way by Ferocity.

And as you can see, Mangle just adds a whole lot more damagy goodness to your attacks.

And that additional damage from Bleed effects? Don’t just write that off.

Sure, your Shred gets extra loving from it, and if you are in cat doing DPS in raids or instance runs, this is why you should pop a Mangle to keep the Bleed debuff on your target, then switch back to your Shred attacks.

But you can only use Shred from behind the target, and when you’re soloing that option doesn’t really come into play much.

However, if you are like me, you like doing stealth runs with rogue friends.. or just have rogue friends that you duo with on quests.

Rogues also have attacks with Bleed effects… and they love the force multiplier effect from our Mangle debuff.

I hope this helps you out, and that you have lots of fun watching your Mangle crits tear your opponents a new… well, let’s keep it PG, shall we?