[quote quote=10730]TLDR; Christopher, download DroodFocus, ClassMonitor TukUI, and TukUI if you haven’t yet, with a little bit of fiddling you can get it so not only are all your bleeds and self buffs tracked near to where you’re tunneling Feral, but the Flashs from SpellFlash also track a lot better and are easier to see.
Edit: I also tested this macro and just a tidbit, Shred is absolutely not a wasted spell unless you are 60% of the time in front of your target; while it is pretty useless when you are soloing, in a group where you are able to sit behind the target for the fight it is a substantial DPS boost. It is not, however, a top priority ability and can be thrown either into the end of a long cast sequence or as a separate button for when you get that extra burst of energy; if you have the Glyph you can even macro it to a Burst CD and you do not have to be behind the target.
Edit 2: Swipe and Thrash on separate buttons for 5+ is useful, I agree that having swipe in the macro for anything but AoE is a DPS loss.
Edit 3: Also, I can’t remember if you stated this already, but Glyph of Savagery is almost required for Feral.
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I was checking out raid of logs and noticed some the top raiding ferals had one thing in common. There shred damage is not what one would expect. Yes they do use shred and I guess I was misinformed about it not being on the bar but some enquirers have found that they advise only using it at times when you are under the effect of beserk or Omen. Also in times when you are not starved for rage and you do not need combo points immediately to refresh a rip.
Now considering that Omen is so crazy RNG and Beserk has a long cool down this would explain why this damage does not show off as much on there charts
For reference here is one
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-ur9caools1btbfvg/details/12/?s=2340&e=2944
As you can see only 3 percent of there total damage is shred. this is consitant across the board with ferals. So you are correct that they do use it but the extra combo from mangle leading to an extra FB is just tooo good to miss. Mangle means more combo points due to less energy and when it crits ohhh boy more combo points so more chance on it to crit more more combo points more combo points more FB more FB more DPS. More DPS and you win.
Ohh and I use Elvui it is made for people like me who do not want to take the time to actually learn how to configure that plugin lol.