Cat Form

Cat Form
Cat Form Druid ability 35% of base mana Instant Shapeshift into cat form, increasing melee attack power by (Your Level * 2) plus Agility. Also protects the caster from Polymorph effects and allows the use of various cat abilities. The act of shapeshifting frees the caster of Polymorph and Movement Impairing effects.
Properties
Class	Druid
School	Physical
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Improvements	See below
Related buff
Cat Form Immunity to Polymorph effects. Increases melee attack power by (Your Level * 2) plus Agility.

[[Category:druid abilities]][[Category:druid abilities]]

Druids always land on their feet.

File:Druidcat.jpg

The original night elf and tauren in cat form.

Cat Form is similar to a Rogue in that it relies on an Energy bar and combo points to use most of its skills. Druids in Cat Form also gain the ability to Track Humanoids, making a cloaked Cat Form Druid perfect for PvP ambushes. A major disadvantage though of choosing a feral druid over a rogue is that their theoretical damage potential is slightly lower than that of a rogue, and that they lack a large arsenal of tactical abilities.

It is learned at level 20 for 20.

Notes

In World of Warcraft: Trading Card Game.

• Can use Cat Form Abilities.
• Attack Power is increased by the formula: (Strength x 2) + Agility + (Character Level x 2) - 20
• Feral attack power is increased by the formula: (Weapon dps - 54.8) * 14
• Aside from the contribution from Agility, Strength and straight attack power on a weapon, cat form benefits from additional Feral attack power mentioned above. Example: A weapon with 281.5 dps, such as heroic [Lupine Longstaff], would grant an additional 3173 attack power.
• Procs from "Chance on Hit" enchantments on weapons, since Patch 3.0, now work while in Cat Form. This includes weapon enchantments, such as Mongoose, and temporary weapon enhancements, such as Windfury Totem.
• Generates energy via 3 ways only: 20 energy every 2 seconds, the talent Furor or through the talent [King of the Jungle], which restores energy when the ability [Tiger's Fury] is used.
• Cat Form uses Energy instead of Mana and can [Stealth], like a Rogue.
• Cat Form has an innate threat reduction component. This is currently believed to be at 29% reduction, which mirrors the threat reduction of Rogues. (see Threat per Class)
• Blizzard has redesigned the Cat and Bear forms, which were released with Patch 3.2.0. There are now 5 different fur colors, designated by your hair colour (Night elf) or fur colour (Tauren).

  

  Tauren cat forms.

  

  Night Elf cat forms.

Talent improvement

Talents that affect specific abilities are not listed here, in order to keep this list shorter.

	Talent Points Needed	Tree	Name	Talent Points Available
	0	Restoration	[Furor]	5
	5	Restoration	[Naturalist]	5
	10	Restoration	[Natural Shapeshifter]	3
Feral Instinct	5	Feral Combat	[Feral Instinct]	3
	5	Feral Combat	[Thick Hide]	3
	10	Feral Combat	[Feral Swiftness]	2
	10	Feral Combat	[Sharpened Claws]	3
Predatory Strikes	15	Feral Combat	[Predatory Strikes]	3
	20	Feral Combat	[Faerie Fire (Feral)]	1
	25	Feral Combat	[Heart of the Wild]	5
	30	Feral Combat	[Leader of the Pack]	1
	35	Feral Combat	[Predatory Instincts]	5
	40	Feral Combat	[Mangle]	1

Tips and tactics

Main article: Druid tactics

• A druid in Cat Form can use both stealth and Track Humanoids to ambush people in PvP. By default, if you have no profession tracking on, when you shift into Cat Form, Track Humanoids is automatically activated once you have learned it.

Note: If you're tracking repair or other helpful NPCs or mailboxes, Track Humanoids will override this. When you shift out of Cat Form again, the icon of Track Humanoids will remain due to a display bug, but actually you're tracking nothing then, until you select something or shift into Cat Form again.

• Cat Form also has an arsenal of difficult-to-remove physical DoTs (like a Warrior's [Rend]) which can be used to tear casters apart in PvP.

Patch changes

• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Mana energizes that occur while in this form will now appear in the combat log and floating combat text.
  
• Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13):
  • The base weapon damage of the form has been increased.
  • Each point of agility now adds 1 attack power.
    
• Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12):
  • Shapeshifting will now counteract the slowing effects of frost-based spells (Frostbolt, Frost Shock, Cone of Cold, etc.).
  • Druid shapeshift form buttons are no longer dimmed while under the effects of Polymorph.
    
• Patch 1.4.0 (2005-04-19): Shapeshifting into an animal form will now remove Polymorph effects.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): DPS increase at levels 40-60.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB