- I like to entangle, insect swarm, moonfire, maybe another round of spells, and shift to cat to attack while mana refills before the next fight. So it doesn't help me much that a Natural Shapeshifter isn't in the Feral Combat tree, especially if I'm caged there until 70th L. For me Feral does not mean starting and staying in cat form all the time, just shifting at the opportune moment. So I tend to get intelligence/mana/spell power gear in a few slots and the rest for armor and agility to cover the last-mana-dreg shift to CatAttack.
- So now, I try to do one kill as a caster, shift, pounce, one kill as a cat while mana refills.
- The benefits of Natural & Master Shapeshifter would help shifting TO Feral Combat talents where the Predatory Strikes instant cast nature spell is useful for shifting OUT of Feral Combat talents where it is in Tier 1. Seems cross-eyed to me.