Originally Posted by
Karlzone
From my time in the Feral Community I expect these changes to be *very* popular by the masses, but this is one of the times where I completely and utterly disagree with the general consensus. Feral has historically been "the difficult spec of WoW", so naturally the people who enjoy playing it for the challenge have gathered playing it, me included. I'd hate to see that change too much.
The changes make the amount of stuff to actively manage a lot lower (with its Savage Roar and Jagged Wounds duration increases). Every since MoP I feel like both SR and Rip consistently are less and less meaningful for our rotation. It used to be that the point of the spec was to keep up your dots/buffs no matter the cost, which you would accomplish with great planning, and if you did this well, you'd be on your way to doing great dps.
In stead of the long time planning we used to have, Legion offered us a kind-of-spammy playstyle that was still pretty okay, simply because we had lots to think about all the time. Now with these changes, we're both spammy and also have little to think about. Basically I feel like we're becoming more and more like rogues; a spec focused on just getting rid of all this energy and these combo points that keep bothering us. Not a fan.