Cat Form

Cat Form
Cat Form Level 5 druid ability Instant Shapeshift into Cat Form, increasing auto-attack damage by 40%, movement speed by 30%, granting protection from Polymorph effects, and reducing falling damage. The act of shapeshifting frees you from movement impairing effects.
Properties
Class	Druid
School	Physical
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	5
Improvements	[Leader of the Pack], [Master Shapeshifter], [Tireless Pursuit]
Related buff
Cat Form Autoattack damage increased by 40%. Immune to Polymorph effects. Movement speed increased by 30% and falling damage reduced.

Druids always land on their feet.

Cat Form is a druid shapeshifting form. Similar to rogues, druids in Cat Form focus on dealing melee damage, relying on energy, [Stealth], and combo points to use most of their abilities.

Tips and tactics

• Cat Form has an arsenal of difficult-to-remove physical DoTs that can be used to tear casters apart in PvP.
• In Cat Form, your base attack speed changes to 1.0, and your weapon damage is normalized so that its DPS stays the same.
• In addition to [Stealth], Cat Form druids can also learn [Track Humanoids], making them perfect for PvP ambushes.
• Speed increase does not stack with that of [Dash].

Notes and trivia

• Each race has a distinct default Cat Form model, with characteristics that reflect their home environment and their humanoid form. Night elves resemble panthers with long ears; tauren resemble lions with horns; trolls resemble tigers with long ears and tusks; etc.
  • Kul Tiran druids are an exception to this. Their Cat Form reflects the fact that they learned druidism from the drust.
  • Each racial Cat Form has five color tints. In retail, the tint can be changed at the Barber Shop; in Classic, it's tied to humanoid form hair color.
• Lorewise, druids in cat form are not able to speak.

Gallery

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  Night elf Cat Form.

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  Troll Cat Form.

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  Highmountain tauren Cat Form.

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  Zandalari troll Cat Form, a sabertusk.

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  Kul Tiran Cat Form, a thornclaw.

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  Druids of the Flame Cat Form appearance with Fandral's Flamescythe, Fandral's Seed Pouch or Burning Seed.

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  Fangs of Ashamane artifact appearance.

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  Fangs of Ashamane artifact appearance Nature's Fury.

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  Fangs of Ashamane artifact appearance Primal Stalker.

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  Fangs of Ashamane artifact appearance Incarnation of Nightmare.

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  Fangs of Ashamane artifact appearance Ghost of the Pridemother.

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  Fangs of Ashamane artifact appearance Moonspirit, an owlcat.

For images of all artifact weapon appearance colors see Fangs of Ashamane

[Masquerade] ability usable in Suramar City also changes Cat Form to look like a manasaber.

Incarnation: King of the Jungle gives armor to the appearance of the base cat form (without having Fangs of Ashamane).

Old models

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  A tauren in Cat Form at E3 2003, using a regular black panther model.

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  Night elf Cat Forms, including the original (seen at the bottom right) that was used prior to patch 3.2.

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  Tauren Cat Forms, including the original (seen at the bottom middle) that was used prior to patch 3.2.

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  Troll Cat Forms.

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  Worgen Cat Forms.

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  Corresponding skin tones for tauren.

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  Corresponding hair colors for night elves.

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  Corresponding hair colors for trolls.

Art

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  A night elf in Cat Form in TCG.

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  A night elf in Cat Form in TCG.

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  A night elf in Cat Form in TCG.

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  A night elf in Cat Form in TCG.

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  Silent as a...

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  A night elf in Cat Form in TCG.

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  A tauren in Cat Form in TCG.

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  A tauren in Cat Form in TCG.

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  A tauren in Cat Form in TCG.

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  A tauren in Cat Form in TCG.

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  A tauren in Cat Form in TCG.

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  A tauren in cat form to the right and a night elf Givon in bear form to the left in TCG.

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  Concept art for Zandalari and Kul Tiran Cat Forms.

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  Ferryn shapeshifted as a nightsaber, in Elegy.

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  Malfurion Stormrage in cat form in Hearthstone.

Patch changes

• Patch 10.2.5 (2024-01-16): Now crouches down while stealthed and standing still.
  
• Hotfix (2023-11-14): Energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%) for Balance, Guardian, and Restoration.
  
• Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07): Dreamsaber customizations added. Druid of the Flame Cat Form has been updated.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 5 (was 8).
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now increases auto-attack damage by 40%. Running and walking animations have been updated.
  
• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 8 (was 1).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Model updated. Now learned at level 1 (was 6).
  
• Hotfix (2015-06-30): Fixed a bug that was preventing Balance and Restoration Druids from gaining attack power from Intellect in Bear Form or Cat Form.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now costs 7.4% of base mana (was 3%). No longer causes Agility to increase attack power, or auto-attack damage to be increased by 100%. Energy regeneration no longer continues outside of Cat Form. Cat Form now naturally includes [Feline Grace] and [Track Humanoids]. Movement speed increased to 30% (up from 25%).
  
• Patch 5.4.8 (2014-05-20): Resolved an issue where Cat Form's movement speed bonus was stacking incorrectly with warrior's [Stampeding Shout].
  
• Patch 5.0.5 (2012-09-11): The 25% speed increase granted by Cat Form should no longer stack with the speed increase of Dash.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Available at level 6 (was 8). Now increases movement speed by 25% and auto-attack damage by 100%, and allows energy regeneration to continue after leaving Cat Form.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Cat Form requires level 8, down from level 20. It costs 5% of base mana, down from 35%.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04):
  • New textures for cat models, adjustable at the barbershop.
  • Mana energizes that occur while in this form will now appear in the combat log and floating combat text.
    
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): The mana regeneration penalty when in [Bear Form], [Dire Bear Form], and Cat Form has been removed.
  
• Patch 2.2.0 (2007-09-25): Night Elf melee attack range was too short compared to Tauren Cat Form and other attack ranges. It has been increased.
  
• Patch 1.12.0 (2006-08-22): This form now has an innate threat reduction component.
  
• Patch 1.8.0 (2005-10-10): The attack power bonus from the base Cat Form will now calculate correctly on zoning or logging in.
  
• Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13):
  • The base weapon damage of the form has been increased.
  • Each point of agility now adds 1 attack power.
    
• Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12):
  • Shapeshifting will now counteract the slowing effects of frost-based spells (Frostbolt, Frost Shock, Cone of Cold, etc.).
  • Druid shapeshift form buttons are no longer dimmed while under the effects of Polymorph.
    
• Patch 1.4.0 (2005-04-19): Shapeshifting into an animal form will now remove Polymorph effects.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): DPS increase at levels 40-60.
  
• Patch 0.12 (2004-10-11):
  • Shapeshifting now breaks roots, snares, and freeze effects.
  • Shapeshift forms now include an immunity to polymorph effects.
    
• Patch 0.9 (2004-08-17):
  • Now considered a beast in Cat Form.
  • Shapeshifting will no longer cancel all buffs on the Druid.
  • Shapeshifting cooldown reduced from 10 to 1.5 seconds.
  • Druids now regenerate mana while in shape shift form.
  • Cat Form mana cost slightly reduced, energy now starts generating immediately.
    

See also

• Cat Form, TCG card

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB