Cat Form

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Cat Form
Cat Form Instant cast 35% of Base Mana 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.
Usable by
Class	Druid
Properties
Type	Utility
School	Physical
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Improvement talents	See below
Related buff
Cat Form Immunity to Polymorph effects. Increases melee attack power by (Your Level * 2) plus Agility.

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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.

Contents 1 Notes 2 Talent improvement 3 Tips and tactics 4 Dire Cat form

Notes

• Can use Cat Form Abilities.
• Attack Power is increased by the formula: (Strength x 2) + Agility + (Character Level x 2) - 20
• Cat Form's damage and DPS isn't affected by the currently equipped weapon (except by the contribution to attack power). Similarly, attack speed in Cat Form is always 1.00.
• Procs from "Chance on Hit" enchantments on weapons do not work while in Cat Form. This includes weapon enchantments, such as Mongoose, and temporary weapon enhancements, such as Windfury Totem. However, "Equip: Chance on Hit" effects from other armor being worn, most often trinkets such as Darkmoon Cards are known to still work with attacks in Cat Form.
• Generates energy via 2 ways only: 20 energy every 2 seconds or the talent Furor.
• 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)

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
	5	Feral Combat	Feral Instinct	3
	5	Feral Combat	Thick Hide	3
	10	Feral Combat	Feral Swiftness	2
	10	Feral Combat	Sharpened Claws	3
	15	Feral Combat	Predatory Strikes	3
	15	Feral Combat	Blood Frenzy	2
	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 other tracking on, when you shift into Cat Form, Track Humanoids is automatically activated once you've learned it.
• The Feral talent Feral Swiftness allows a Feral Druid to travel at 15-30% speed in the levels before you obtain Travel Form, which cuts down greatly on downtime through traveling until then.
• 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.
• Some feral druids have learned to "powershift" which takes advantage of the Restoration talent Furor. Powershifting gives 40 energy in 1 global cooldown (if starting with 0 energy). See macros for more details.

Dire Cat form

This article concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King. This information is subject to change at any time. (Note this tag should only be placed on major WotLK articles.)

A Dire version of Cat form will be added in wrath of the Lich King, similar to Dire Bear Form[1].

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