Sharpened Claws, a Feral Combat Druid talent in WoW Forever

Sharpened Claws is a passive talent in row 3 of the Feral Combat tree. It needs 10 points in Feral Combat, so the earliest you can take it is level 20 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 2 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Sharpened Claws

2 ranks

Requires 10 points in Feral Combat

Increases your critical strike chance while in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, or Cat Form by 3%.

Every rank of Sharpened Claws

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases your critical strike chance while in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, or Cat Form by 3%.
Rank 2	Increases your critical strike chance while in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, or Cat Form by 6%.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Feral Combat tree

Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

Blood Frenzy

That talent needs Sharpened Claws at 2/2.

Same row

Row above (row 2)

Row below (row 4)

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Sharpened Claws.

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text, its position and its rank count.

Position

Classic Era

Feral Combat, row 3, column 3

WoW Forever

Feral Combat, row 3, column 4

Ranks

Classic Era

3 ranks

WoW Forever

2 ranks

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Increases your critical strike chance while in Bear, Dire Bear or Cat Form by 2%.

WoW Forever

Increases your critical strike chance while in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, or Cat Form by 3%.

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The other Druid trees: Balance and Restoration. Everything that changed for the Druid since Classic is on the changes page.

Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.