Thick Hide: WoW Forever Feral Combat Druid talent

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Thick HideA Feral Combat Druid talent in WoW Forever: row 2 of the Feral Combat tree (level 15), 3 ranks, passive. Changed from Classic (was Feral Combat row 2, column 3, now column 4, was 5 ranks, now 3). Read from the WoW Forever beta client, with the server's 3 Nov hotfixes on the Druid trees as other readers logged them from the game's hotfix data, checked against Blizzard's notes where they speak.

Thick Hide opens at level 15, after 5 points in Feral Combat.

Changed from Classic

Row 2 of 7 in the Feral Combat tree, column 4.

Lv 15the earliest level

3ranks, passive

28%of Druid builds take it

Find Thick Hide on the Feral Combat tree ›Every Feral Combat talent in words

What it does Feral Combat row 2

Thick Hide3 ranks · passiveRequires 5 points in Feral Combat Talents (level 15).Rank 1: While in Bear Form, Cat Form, Dire Bear Form, or Moonkin Form, you gain 1 additional base Armor per level and another 0.67 base Armor for each point of defense skill beyond five times your level. This amount can be further increased by multipliers from those forms.Rank 2: While in Bear Form, Cat Form, Dire Bear Form, or Moonkin Form, you gain 2 additional base Armor per level and another 1.33 base Armor for each point of defense skill beyond five times your level. This amount can be further increased by multipliers from those forms.Rank 3: While in Bear Form, Cat Form, Dire Bear Form, or Moonkin Form, you gain 3 additional base Armor per level and another 2.00 base Armor for each point of defense skill beyond five times your level. This amount can be further increased by multipliers from those forms.Changed from Classic (was Feral Combat row 2, column 3, now column 4, was 5 ranks, now 3). Classic rank 1: Increases your Armor contribution from items by 2%.

What changed from Classic

Classic rank 1Increases your Armor contribution from items by 2%.
WoW Forever rank 1While in Bear Form, Cat Form, Dire Bear Form, or Moonkin Form, you gain 1 additional base Armor per level and another 0.67 base Armor for each point of defense skill beyond five times your level. This amount can be further increased by multipliers from those forms.
Alsowas Feral Combat row 2, column 3, now column 4; was 5 ranks, now 3.

Blizzard's notes build by build

Thick HideThick Hide: This talent is now properly implemented in code, rather than script, resolving some bugs with equipping gear while shapeshifted not triggering it. Blizzard's development notes for build 70291, 8 Oct 2026.

Who takes it pick rates from this site's builds

28% of Druid buildsTaken in 28% of the 21,235 Druid builds with 41 or more points planned here, since the Oct 30 hotfixes to build 70685.
7% of Balance buildsTaken in 7% of the 3,890 builds that lead in Balance.
40% of Feral Combat buildsTaken in 40% of the 12,299 builds that lead in Feral Combat, its own tree.
17% of Restoration buildsTaken in 17% of the 5,046 builds that lead in Restoration.
How it is countedEach build counts once, the way the calculator's pick-rate badges count. Recounted a few times a day, last on 2026-11-05.

Around it in the Feral Combat tree

Same row (5 points in Feral Combat, level 15)Feral Swiftness, Feral Instinct, Brutal Impact.
Row above (level 10)Ferocity, Furor.
Row below (level 20)Shredding Attacks, Savage Fury, Feral Charge, Sharpened Claws.
Gone from Classic Feral CombatFeral Aggression, Faerie Fire (Feral).

Every Feral Combat talent 20

Thick Hide

newchangedmoved since Classic, the dots of the calculator's Compare to Classic. Down the side: the earliest level for each row.

The Feral Combat talents as a list row by row

The other two trees

From the WoW Forever beta client, with the 3 Nov server hotfixes on the Druid trees as other readers logged them; checked in game with reader reports. Put points in Thick Hide in the Druid calculator.