Pounce (3 Ranks)

Level 36

Category: Back Stab/Dot/Stun
Position: Stealthed Behind Mob
Duration: 18 sec
Cast Time: Instant
Energy Cost: 50
Range: 9 yards
Combo: 1 point (2 points, 3 if crit)
Upgradable: +1 combo points, or 2 with crit
Upgradable: See catform upgrades for more
Description: The druid instantly pounces on his target, stunning the target for 2 sec and causing 90-150 damage over 18 sec. Must be stealthed and behind the target.

Below is an extensive analysis of each and every talent we have. I even mention combos that are possible with the talent/skill. I only leveled a druid to 35, so my opionions may not accurately reflect high level play. These are just my opinions based on logic, my 35 levels as a druid, math, and experiences in other games. Here are some quick links to jump to the tree you are interested in:

Balance
Restoration
Feral

Restoration Tree Analysis

Improved Mark of the Wild 5 Ranks (adds to the amount buffed)
------Point of talent: An all around improvement to your druid, armor, stats, resists, groupability etc.
------Usefulness: High-Very High (no matter who you are or what your build is, it should include 5/5 on this talent. It improves mana pool, mana regen, attack power, crit chance, dodge chance, crit spell chance, hit points, damage absorb and resists.
------Combo: Pairing this with faerie fire and demoralizing roar...Buffing yourself up higher while bringing them down lower to create some artificial levels of difference between you and the mob.
------Combo2: Can pair this with strength of the wild to gain more bonus strength form the talent.
------Type: A little more useful in pvp then pve due to resists are needed more in pvp.

Furor 5 Ranks (gives chance to gain 10 rage after shifting into bear form)
------Point of talent: to give you instant rage for instant bear actions upon shifting. Basically lets you shift into bear and taunt a mob to get it off, or shift into bear and use feral charge, or shift and use demoralizing roar. Where otherwise you would of had to shift, melee the mob for a bit then use the ability, or shift, enrage and wait. This allows fast use of bear abilities for when time counts.
------Usefulness: Low-Medium (while the above makes it seem very nice, the times when you will need the rage right away NOW are far and few in between. The exception is maybe that of feral charge in use of pvp. Also there is a helm that does the same thing but provides energy when going into catform as well)
------Combo: Shift into bear form, enrage, feral charge, maul, melee, bash, maul, maul, maul. This basically allows you to use furor in conjunction with other bear abilities to really stack rage regen high and do damage quickly. See improved enrage and bash for more info on this.
------Combo2: Shift into bear form, taunt the mob off the mage, stun it, shift out and root the mob. Have mage back off while warrior or real tank gets control of the mob again.
------Combo3: Shift into bear, enrage, faerie fire, demoralizing roar, bash, maul, shift out and have a majorly debuffed stunned damaged mob for the cost of the shapeshift while in groups.

Nature's Focus 5 Ranks (allows you to cast big healing spells while being beat on quicker without being interrupted as much)
------Point of talent: Increases soloability by quite a bit, you can now shift out of a feral form and heal yourself much quicker. It also allows for healing a dying mage while you have agro too and warrior is scratching his nuts. Very useful for pvp as well. And most importantly, its the gateway for nature's swiftness
------Usefulness: High, your survivability should go up quite a bit having this spell. However if you have no plan to get nature's swiftness, nature's grasp or improved roots can serve about the same purpose as this. You would just cast roots instead of a heal through being hit, back off heal up, refresh dot whatever. Just remember each core purpose of each of these talents and try not to get duplicate purposes.
------Combo: Fight until you are down to about 25%, if you are in bear form, stun the mob, then shift out and heal yourself with healing touch. If you are in cat form, wait for the mob to land an attack, shift out and heal yourself. Making a macro for this can be helpful. You can then finish the mob off in caster form, or go back to bear/cat
------Combo2: Fight until you are very low, leave form with a stun if you can, rejuv yourself, regrowth yourself, refresh dot, and shift back in and enjoy HoT & DoT.
------Note: Try to use up any rage/energy you have before you shift out to heal. Otherwise its wasted.
------Type: Useful in both pvp and pve, may show to be more of a life saver in pvp because people concentrate on healers more.

Improved Healing Touch 5 Ranks (reduces the mana cost of our most powerful heal)
------Purpose of talent: We druid's mana pool isn't to large, any mana reducing talents we can get are a plus, especially for a frequently cast spell like healing touch. With improved healing touch its extremely mana efficient. Though it did suffer a 5% nerf this last push its still worth every point you can muster into it.
------Usefulness Very high: We may not like it, but we get stuck with primary healer sometimes, or end up doing quite a bit of 2ndary healing. Lower mana cost on this means you'll have more mana left to do what you made a druid for, shifting and balance.
------Combo: No real combos for this, it just saves you mana over time so you have more to spend on other stuff, or allows you to let you and your group get through a tough long fight.
------Type: Useful for both pvp and pve, but is more valuable in pve.

Improved Enrage 2 Ranks (lowers the time needed to generate rage, and reduces the armor penalty of this ability.)
------Point of talent: To enable you to use enrage more freely without worrying to much about its penalties.
------Usefulness: Low - Enrage now has a 1 min cooldown so you dont get to use it as much. Though its still useful. Getting this talent allows a few cool combos.
------Combo: I've listed several combos already that use improved enrage, but here's a few more: Combined with improved bash, you can extend your stun duration to 5 seconds and reduce your armor debuff time to 6 seconds. Combine them for a free 20 rage with no downside.
------Combo2: Used with furor you can shift into bear form, and enrage and melee between all of those in 6 seconds you'll probably have around 50 rage. That's a nice stockpile to unleash your fury out in a burst. This also works great for mass taunting several mobs with tab taunting.
------Type: I would say its more useful in pve then pvp, but still great for pvp as starting the fight with more rage is always good.

Combat Endurance 5 Ranks (enables 2-10% of your hp regeneration to regenerate while in combat)
------Point of talent: Another light way of improving the tankability of a druid.
------Usefulness: Low (its usefulness depends on your play style, how high your spirit is, and your selection of other talents. This is one i cant predict atm what it will do exactly. I will have the average regen of a 40ish druid soon but not right now. Basically what you want to do is take a look at your regen when your in your late 30s or later, and see how much it is per tick. Then take 10% of how many hp per tick, and that will show you how much you will regen while in combat. For example say you were regenerating 100 hp a tick, 10% would be 10, so in combat you would regen 10 hp a tick. You then time how long a tick is, I've heard anywhere from 1-4 seconds. Then times that by the average # of ticks you get while in combat to see exactly how much hp you would regen while in combat. I cant tell you exactly how good is is yet as i don't have the info I need.
------Combo: With this talent essentially you could ignore some of your own wounds and tend to the groups more, relying on this talent to regen those lost HP for you. SO essentially it could save you mana from having to heal yourself as much.
------Combo2: When combined with the thick hide talent these 2 should make you a noticeably better tank...alone they aren't to hot but together you see an improvement. Now you just need to decide if That's worth 10 points. Also used with improved demoralizing roar will up your ability to tank as well.
------Type: same in pvp as pve

Gift of Nature 1 Rank (adds to the amount healed by your healing spells)
------Point of talent: A quick easy way to increase your healing power overall by a little bit that adds up over a long run. Its very cheap for what it does and that makes it worth it.
------Usefulness: Medium (it doesn't actually do a whole lot, but its worth sacrificing 1 point to get, so in terms of usefulness per point I would rate it high)
------Combo:This combo'd with improved rejuvenation ups the amount healed by 20% So for example Level 58 rejuvenation heals for 756 over 12 seconds for 335 mana. Or 2.256 efficiency. Add 20% healing power to it and its boosted to 907 healed @ 2.708 efficiency. So that is quite a powerful combo, makes it so its almost stupid not to have rejuvenation on the tank 24/7.
------Type: great for both, probably more for pve though.

Intensity 5 ranks (gives chance to gain 40 energy upon shifting into cat form)
------Point of talent: For instant energy to use to get right back into dps if you have to shift out of cat to heal yourself.
------Usefulness: Low, spending 5 points for a 100% chance to gain 40 energy isn't as nice as it seems. Energy generates on its own very quickly. Also there are no cat abilities save cower that you might want to shift into cat form and use right away. But the times when you would shift to use cower are very few. Its a very mana intensive way to loose agro. Why not just spend the mana shifting into bear so you can take the punishment until you can loose it. Takes about 6-8 seconds to get a full bar of energy.
------Combo: When low on health, use the last of your energy on a rip or rake or something with a dot. Shift out, heal yourself, shift back in and tiger fury/claw your way back into strong dps.
------Type: More useful in pvp then pve as you'll constantly have to shift in and out of cat form to heal yourself. But still, you could just wait a few seconds and get that 40 energy instead of spending 5 points to get it.

Reflection 5 Ranks (allows 2-10% of your mana regeneration to work while casting)
------Point of talent: to help out strong balance users and full time healers. This allows you to be regenerating while your healing and the 5 second rule isn't as harsh to you.
------Usefulness: Low to Medium (for a feral druid its not very useful, but to a balance druid even in soloing he is always suffering from the 5 second rule. I would suggest the same method described in combat endurance to discover if this would be useful to your druid at the time.)
------Combo: When combined with combat endurance you will always be regening at least a little. Figure out how much mana 10% of your mana regen would give you over say 10 mins. Then figure out much more you could do with that mana.
------Type: Depends on your play style but might be more useful in pvp where you find yourself constantly casting with no breaks.

Improved Rejuvenation 5 ranks (adds to total hp healed by your rejuv spell)
------Point of Spell: To make rejuvenation more mana efficient. and really get a great use out of it since its instant cast.
------Usefulness: Medium-High, depending on how often you find yourself using rejuvenation This makes it much more mana efficient. and it heals a good bit more, especially at higher levels. Augmenting a weaker instant ability to be a strong instant ability is always good.
------Combos: When combined with gift of nature as mentioned above you can really make rejuvenation 1 of your favorite spells. Tossing it around as if were nothing in groups because its so mana efficient and does its work so fast its quite handy, especially soloing...instant rejuv before you go into forms, and after you shift out to heal. Always remember rejuvenations major benefit...running away and casting it healing yourself at the same time. This will augment it even more. You'll be harder to kill.
------Type: Great for both, but i would say more useful in pvp where you have to run and chase a lot.

Nature's Swiftness 1 Rank (Allows next "Nature" spell to be insta cast- 3min cool down)
------Spells Effected:
------------Healing Touch
------------Regrowth
------------Wrath
------------Hibernate
------------Entangling Roots
------Point of talent: To give druid the emergency heal they needed badly. Also gives druids a tool to help them in their forms. They can be a backup healer and use feral forms with this little talent. Allows them to do damage in a feral form, drop it, and insta heal someone in need. Also increases the overall power and resourcefulness of the druid.
------Usefulness: VERY HIGH, No matter your template, nature's swiftness will add a lot of power to your character. Not only does it increase your usefulness and power in groups, but solo & pvping.
------Combo: God there's a ton of combos for this but I'll just list a few of the less obvious ones. Use nature's swiftness, then target an incomming add and instant root it before it reaches group so it cant beat on your group.
------Combo2: You are chasing someone who's almost dead in pvp. While chasing them you can use nature's swiftness to cast an instant root on them while still running. Combined with nature's reach talent and you have a long reaching insta cast root so no 1 gets away.
------Combo3: You are being chased and are almost dead, and don't have enough mana to shift to travel form or cat form to get away. Insta-cast healing touch on yourself, then hit natures grasp, stop let them hit you, let them get rooted, and make your escape.
------Combo4: Combined with omen of clarity you can get instant cast mana free spells.
------Type: Extremely useful in both pvp and pve but for different reasons. in pve instant heals are a godsend. They are in pvp too but instant ranged root is very nice too.
------Extra Info: When you go to use nature's quickness, it gives you a buff icon, but the cool down doesn't start until you cast your next nature spell. The buff of nature's swiftness does not run out currently.

Subtlety 5 Ranks (lowers the amount of threat generated by your healing spells)
------Point of talent: Allows the druid to be primary healer much easier. If the druid gets agro from healing, he can switch to bear form if he's dying fast but that costs mana. This helps keep thing going smooth.
------Usefulness: Medium - for the average fight, you dont need it but its very nice to have on boss fights, warriors have a hard time holding agro when there is an extensive ammount of healing going on.
------Combo: No real combos here, just comboing it with better healing spells is great. Doing your main healer thing without getting bothered by mobs. Nature's grasp may seem like a viable alternative but its not. The root would break so fast from being melee'd and nuked while its on you that it wouldn't do you any good.
------Type: Pure PvE talent. Though it may help some in pvp when it comes time to pets. Not sure though

Improved Tranquility 2 Ranks (Gives 40-80% chance to get get interrupted every time you get hit casting Tranquility)
------Point of talent: To allow the druid to use tranquility more freely. This spell is a nice group heal but generates a ton of mana. This allows the spell to be used while fighting, instead of just a downtime ability.
------Usefulness: Low to Medium, it depends on your play style and your guild, etc. For raids where there tends to be a lot of AoE spells or being attacked from every direction this could be very helpful.
------Combo: When combined with subtlety, you'll have a more more user friendly spell. Tranquility causes a great deal of agro, this talent helps when you do get agro...subtlety helps to reduce how often you get that agro or how many mobs come running over to bash your face.
------Type: Useful in both pvp and pve maybe even more so in pvp because generally your entire group is hurt and is being hit with aoe spells.

Improved Regrowth 5 Ranks (Gives you an additional 10-50% chance to crit with regrowth)
------Point of talent: To make the high mana cost of regrowth worth it. It will be critting often so the high cost is offset by the sheer power of how much it will heal.
------Usefulness: Medium-High, Though just for general healing you'll probably find yourself using healing touch more often. Regrowth is to costly and powerful to use lightly. It will mainly be used at high level where your tank can have 7khp and that 7k hp can go down pretty fast. Keep in mind that this just adds to your crit chance. if you got rank 5, with decent intellect gear you could be hitting 60% chance to crit.
------Combo: At high level encounters when the tank is dropping fast and your having a hard time keeping up, cast rejuv, then regrowth, then patch heal with healing touch to help keep his hp from falling so fast.
------Combo2: I haven't checked into how viable this is yet but technically a druid could stack 3 HoT effects on 1 target. Regrowth, Rejuv, then Tranquility.
------Combo3: Because of your high crit rate with this spell, you can use it for soloing without having to get nature's focus. Its already a short 2 second cast time, so its not to bad to cast while getting beat on. And since it crits so often you can throw it on yourself, stack a rejuv with it, and go into cat form for dps and have to keep your hp nearly full.
------Type: Great for both pvp and pve, but i would lean to more useful in pve epic encounters then anywhere else.

Innervate 1 Rank (Gives target 400% mana regeneration and full mana regeneration while casting for 20 sec. 6 Min cool down)
------Point of spell: To give the druid an extra group-friendly tool and to help out in prolonged fights where mana regen doesn't get a chance to kick in
------Usefulness: High (Since it can be cast on others you'll probably want to put it on a priest for epic fights. Great even for druids who like nuking or shifting. Basically increases your mana pool.
------Combo: Putting this in yourself as a restoration druid will help in that with gift of nature and improved rejuv, you'll be casting rejuv all the time killing your mana regen time. Same thing for balance druids, casting moonfire a lot.
------Type: Great for pvp and pve. You have to sit down and drink often in pvp, this helps with that problem

Feral Combat Tree Analysis

Ferocity 5 Ranks (decreases the cost of maul, swipe, claw, and rake)
------Point of talent: To provide the druid with cheaper costs on the frequently used abilities in feral forms. This translates into higher dps because you'll be able to do more special attacks in a shorter amount of time. Also allows longer string of combos.
------Usefulness: Medium, if you are going to be in any form for only a short period of time this talent wont boost you much. But if your going to spend quite a while in bear or cat forms, the saved cost adds up quickly. For cat form, in a group, you will mainly only use ravage/shred with the occasional claw/rake. So you dont get much use from it there. You will in bearfrom though...waiting for rage to build sucks, so having a talent that lessens your rage use helps a lot.
------Combo: The cheaper cost allows you to throw in an extra maul or rake for an example before executing other combos.
------Type: PvE & PvP, just depends on your role at the time. Less useful maybe in PvP as you'll have to drop forms to provide support and heal yourself often.

Improved Demoralizing Roar 5 Ranks (improves the attack debuff of demoralizing roar)
------Point of talent: To allow you to tank better as the opponents attack rating is lower so their DPS on you drops. Increases Survivability
------Usefulness: Low-Medium, At higher levels it adds an extra 33 or so to the top demoralizing roar for a minus 163 from opponents attack rating. Which is quite a bit considering a level 60 druid in cat form with predatory strikes gains 144 atk power from cat form. That's damn nice but it doesn't get used as much because there is usually a warrior in the group who's doing this already.
------Note: Its an AOE so its value increases when fighting multiple opponents in bear form.
------Combo: Combined with Faerie fire, you can really hinder an opponent. Basically artificially inflating your level, because they will attack and take damage like they were several levels lower.
------Combo2: Other classes get similar abilities like the warlock. Combined with theirs, it should really make a big difference.
------Combo3: Combined with furor, you can shift to bear form and demoralize right away to lessen the damage you take quicker.
------Type: Great for pve and pvp, but tends to be more useful in pvp due to the fact that you probably wont have a warrior there to do it for you. Can help turn the tide in your favor against other melee classes.

Improved Bash 2 Ranks (Increases the duration of the stun effect of bash by 1 second)
------Point of talent: To buy you a little extra time to finish a casting mob off before it gets a heal cast. Also provides more time to do stun related combos.
------Usefulness: Low-High, Depends on your build if you for example have improved enrage, its usefulness goes up. Or if you are high in feral, buys you more time to shift out and heal yourself before the stun wears off.
------Combo: At high levels bash's stun effect lasts 4 seconds, so this would bump it up to 5 seconds. Improved enrage decreases the time you are debuffed to 6 seconds. This would give you only 1 second of debuff time where the mob might hit you. With both you can enrage, then stun the mob, auto-attack it to gain even more rage, and by the time stun wears off so will your armor debuff from enrage.
------Combo2: Combined with swiftshifting or nature's swiftness, you can easily stun the mob, shift out, heal yourself, and refresh moonfire, then drop back into bear form, or even cat form.
------Combo3: When an opponent is about to cast, use feral charge, then once it wears off use bash. Buying you a total of 9 seconds of time to kill your opponent before they can cast again. Can even throw in a War Stomp if you are tauren to buy you an additonal 2 seconds of stun time
------Combo4: Stun opponent, shift out, root opponent, and back off to provide support or heal.
------Combo5: Feral charge a runner, stopping it for 4 second with its short stun, then bash, to provide a total of 9 seconds to finish it off before it gets any farther. Can even throw in a War Stomp if you are tauren to buy you an additonal 2 seconds of stun time

Sharpened Claws 5 Ranks (increase your critical strike chance while in bear or cat form)
------Point of talent: To increase your dps, and the effectiveness of bloodfrenzy and primal fury.
------Usefulness: Low-High, Depending on your build this talent gains value. If you have blood frenzy or primal fury, those are dependant on crits. Higher chance to crit of course makes these to talents trigger more often. If you don't have these talents, or are only in a form for a short period of time, the usefulness of this ability is quite low. With decent agi gear and this talent you can increase your chance to crit to around 15%
------Combo: Combined with blood frenzy or primal Fury, you can really increase your dps. For primal fury, you'll gain rage from crits which translates into dps. With blood frenzy you will gain combo points faster which translates to an earlier finishing move execution for more dps.
------Combo2: Combined with decent agi gear/buffs and Improved ravage you can gain 25% chance to crit with ravage.
------Type: Useful in both pve and pvp, but more so in pve, as i said earlier, you might have to shift out of forms frequently in pvp situations.

Improved Prowl 5 Ranks (Reduces your chance of being detected)
------Point of talent: To make sneaking up on an enemy while in cat form much easier.
------Usefulness: Low-Medium, Low if you dont use stealth much, medium if you use it, and even high if you are horde and have to go against humans with stealth detection.
------Combo: Combined with night elf trait: shadowmeld, you should be very difficult to detect.
------Type: More useful in pvp then pve, its nice in pve for soloing but not very useful in groups.

Feral Charge 1 Rank (gives the druid a new ability in bear form - 15 sec cool down)
------Point of talent: To give druids a much needed way to stop casters from casting/healing themselves. Also gives the druid a quick charge at an opponent to nail them before they can cast or root you.
------Usefulness: High, if blizzard keeps it so it can be used in combat then this talent is invaluable. If it gets nerfed to only useable as an opener its value goes down greatly. Even then its nice for charging that mage who's about to nuke you.
------Combo: As said above in the improved bash talent, combo'd with bash/improved bash it makes for a great way to stop casting for a long period. Can even throw in a War Stomp if you are tauren to buy you an additonal 2 seconds of stun time
------Combo2: Combined with Furor or enrage, you can shift into bear form, and charge right away.
------Combo3: You can essentially use this to "sprint" away from your opponent by charging another, then running.
------Type: Much more useful in pvp.

Bloodfrenzy 5 Ranks (gives chance to gain an extra combo point from a crit in cat form)
------Point of talent: To allow you to gain combo points quicker to execute rip sooner in the battle so it has time to do its full damage.
------Usefulness: Medium-High, Depending on other cat talents you take, the value of bloodfrenzy goes up. What I mean by this is: If you take improved shred & improved pounce or improved ravage, or even just improved pounce alone you can gain combo points easily from these. I'll explain more in the combo sections for these. Also any high damage ability like ravage gains a lot from a crit.
------Combo: Combined with improved ravage and your base chance to crit, you gain gain a 25% chance to crit. Giving you a decent chance to gain 2 combo points from it, and also a crit with ravage will be very high in damage.
------Combo2: Combined with Improved pounce, you could gain 3 combo points if you crit with pounce.
------Combo3: See Improved Shred/Improved Pounce
------Type: Great in pve and pvp. They're pretty much equal. With cat form you have more control over what's going on pvp wise so you'll still spend a lot of time in cat form to get real use out of it.

Primal Fury 5 Ranks (gives chance to gain 5 rage from a crit in bear form)
------Point of talent: to give you a little something extra for crits. The extra rage translates into improved dps or improved tanking.
------Usefulness: Low-Medium, for most druids this talent is pretty useless, as 5 rage from a crit isn't much at all. You're better off going for the bash/enrage combo. But for some bear fanatics, its worth getting. If you plan on being main tank quite a bit or using bear form for very extended periods of time this talent can help you out. Though rage can be quite difficult to get sometimes. May want to get this talent if you are struggling for rage and use bearform often
------Combo: Its all subject to your chance to crit, gaining an extra 5 rage might allow you to get off a maul or swipe sooner. But other then that I can't think of anything.
------Type: Its hard to say if its better in pve or pvp. In pve unless your doing a little group of friends who needs a tank, you wont be in bear form unless soloing sometimes. Even then you might be using cat form unless your full out in bear. In pvp you'll have to switch out of bear form often to heal and provide support. Though pvp is prime area for using bear form as its needed vs melee attackers.

Improved Shred 2 Ranks (Reduces the energy cost of shred)
*****THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST UNDER-RATED TALENTS****
------Point of talent: To allow you to use this unstealthed backstab more frequently in groups when you aren't the 1 tanking. Also allows the execution of a nice combo.
------Usefulness: Low-High, depending on how deep into feral you go, and if you take improved ravage, its value can change. Usefulness in groups is medium, usefulness solo if you do the pounce/shred combo is high. IMO you should not take this AND improved ravage if you only plan to solo. Because its useless solo unless you combine it with pounce. So if you plan on using ravage/improved ravage instead of the shred/pounce combo, don't take it, unless you want it for groups, and you will use it very often in groups. Sorry hard to explain.
------Combo: Combined with pounce which has a 2 sec stun, you can pounce, then while the target is stunned, you can shred. This combo will stack pounce's dot and shred's dot, as well as gaining the extra damage from shred. If both crit, you'll gain 4 combo points from this. If you have Improved pounce, if both crit, you can gain 5 combo points from this. If neither crit with improved pounce you'll gain 3 combo points. Even if you get unlucky, 3 combo points is a nice way to start off the fight. You may be able to do this combo without improved shred, but it would be cutting it close, relying on energy regen. As without pounce + shred = 110 energy and your capped at 100.
------Combo2: Do combo1 for 2 dots stacked, then use rake for a 3rd dot stacked.
------Combo3: Do combo2, then rip for 4 dots.
------Combo4: Do combo3, then shift out and moonfire for 5 dots stacked.
------Note: All 5 will indeed stack.
------Combo5: Use Tiger's fury, wait until 1 second is left on tigures fury then use shred. This is only a good option when starting a fight, or soloing. As the energy is better spend on multipal shreds. Also this combo becomes useless once you gain ravage. You can use it before ravage then.
------Combo6: Throw cat faerie fire into those combos anywhere for even more improved damage.
------Combo7: There are more if you use your brain.

Predatory Strikes 5 Ranks (adds to the attack bonus you get from cat form)
------Point of talent: To offer cat specialized druids improved damage
------Usefulness: The usefulness of this can be debated that you could instead focus on more str gear and gain what predatory strikes gives you. Cat form starts out giving 40 attack power, you then gain 2 attack power per level after that. By 60 cat form adds 120 attack power. Predatory strikes bumps that up 24 points - or equivalent to 12 levels of cat form attack gain. For a total of 144 attack power bonus from cat form. This can be improved higher with strength of the wild. However I tested in stress test that 1 point of str = 2 attack power. Not sure if this still is in effect at higher levels. So essentially you could gain the same 24 points of attack power this talent gives you from 12 points of strength. I need to do more testing to confirm the usefulness of this talent. But hell, if your focusing on cat form, why not do both, focus on str gear and get this for even higher attack power.
------Combo: Combined with str gear, and strength of the wild you could boost your attack power very high. For example, if a lvl 60 druid had this, strength of the wild and decent str gear he could reach 180+ attack power assuming he has 150 str or higher....if my calc's of 1 str = 2 attack power are correct.
------Note: Since cat form attacks fast, and some of its abilities do bonus dmg depending on how hard you hit for, attack power can really boost your dps more so then in bear form.
------Type: Great for pvp and pve.

Faerie Fire (Cat) 1 Rank (Allows the use of faerie fire in cat form)
Note: The rank of faerie fire used can be trained higher at your trainer
------Point of talent: To allow a druid the use of one of his unique spells without having to be in caster form. This allows you to still use your stealthed backstabs and still use faerie fire, instead of casting it, shifting to cat and fighting. Or it saves lots of mana and quicker dps by not having to shift out of cat form, cast it, and shift back in.
------Usefulness: Low-Medium, improves your dps by lowering the targets armor by a decent amount (505 at lvl 54+) Which actually isnt very much on mobs. Its pretty damn good against players though.
------Combo: Use this as early as possible in a fight, it can be combo'd with anything. For example: Use pounce/shred combo, then build 15 energy which should only take 1 tick, then faerie fire, then proceed with the more advanced combos listed above.
------Combo2: In groups where you are backup healer, use cat form for dps in between heals to regen your mana, using cat faerie fire while doing this gives you a free faerie fire, that every melee in the group benefits from. In caster form at high level it only costs 115 mana, but hell free is free.
------Combo3: In pvp, run around faerie firing everyone you see. With energy regen and it costing 15 energy per pop, you could easily faerie fire 12+ people which is the equivalent of 1380 mana if you did it in caster form.

Faerie Fire (Bear) 1 Rank (Allows the use of faerie fire in bear form)
Note: The rank of faerie fire used can be trained higher at your class trainer
------Point of talent: Gives the druid 2 debuff's to use in bear form. It only costs 5 rage in bear form. Increases you and your parties dps. See Cat form, for other points
------Usefulness: Medium-High, Not as useful as cat faerie fire due to bear doesn't concentrate on dps as much as cat does, and bear doesn't get auto-regened rage. But being able to stack demoralizing roar and faerie fire together is a nice touch.
------Combo: Combine faerie fire and demoralizing roar for a solid combo of debuff
------Combo2: Combined with furor/enrage/ & feral charge, you can shift to bear, faerie fire, and charge.
------Combo3: Use with taunt for extra threat generation
------Note: Get this off asap as it will help with your dps and everyone else's hitting the opponent.
------Type: Great for both pvp and pve.

Thick Hide 5 Ranks (increases the bonus armor from items you get from using bear form)
------Point of talent: Warriors get this too, so they gave an exact copy to druids. Gives the druid extra armor for specializing in bear form to do his job "better"
------Usefulness: Low, The usefulness of this talent is still under the microscope. But Ill list what i figure with it. Rank 5/5 with this talent gives an extra 10% of all your armor ITEMS added up. So if you take the items from a lvl 60 druid listed on thottbot at: http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?profile=Artoc.Beta_Server his items total up to give him 1294 armor. 10% of that is 129 armor. So if I am right, 5/5 thick hide would only give him an extra 129 armor. Which is 20 armor less then lvl 30 mark of the wild gives you.
------Combo: Combine this with combat endurance if you want a noticeable increase in your tankability
------Type: Might help a little soloing with bear from in PvE. But if you notice anything it will probably be in pvp.

Feline Swiftness 1 Rank (Increases your outdoor movement speed while in cat form by 30%)
------Point of talent: A nice treat for cat specialized druids. Increased speed works while prowling as well. Allows traveling in a combat ready form & provides great escape ability while in cat form. Though its usefulness took a hit last patch when it was made outdoor only, its still an awesome ability.
------Usefulness: High, Stealthing at near run speed is self explanatory. This ability is especially useful in pvp.
------Combo1: Stealthed with track humanoids running you can easily tell where every player and npc humanoid is in your nearby area. You can cover ground quickly, and avoid large groups of hostile opposing faction players, and find lone players, sneak up on them and take them down. Just like a real cat hunting, taking down stragglers.
------Combo2: Run around in cat form with your increased speed faerie firing people in pvp, and use it to escape. Use it for hit and run tactics.
------Combo3: Use this on runners, shift into cat, and chase them down and shred their backs as they run.
------Note: Can not be used for kiting with your dots on it, as there are anti-kiting measures in place.
------Type: Godly in pvp, and still awesome for pve soloing and group scouting (except when indoors)

Strength of the Wild 5 Ranks (Gives you a bonus to your strength while using cat or bear forms, the bonus is a percent of your normal strength)
------Point of talent: Increased Attack/DPS for both bear and cat. Really setting you apart as a feral druid.
------Usefulness: Medium-High, The higher your strength, the more bonus you get. So technically tauren gain more from this talent but not by much. A 60 druid who focuses on strength items could easily reach over 150 str with mark of the wild helping. Which if you have 4/4 (12%) on this talent should translate into 36 attack power. Quite powerful indeed.
------Combo: This combo is a forced combo if you want this talent, as predatory strikes is required to get this one. Kind of a bad thing if your looking to get it for bear form only. But combined with predatory strikes as mentioned above with 150 str I calculate that you could gain 180+ attack power with cat form using this talent.
------Combo2: Grab improved mark of the wild with this to get more str from your buff and help you in general to gain more bonus from this talent.
------Type: Great in pvp and pve.

Improved Ravage 2 Ranks (Increase your critical strike chance with ravage by 5-10%)
------Point of talent: To give the druid a chance to do nice chunk of damage with his most powerful attack, Ravage. Also helps with gaining an extra combo point if you took blood frenzy.
------Usefulness: Medium, Could even say high, since combined with shared claws & base crit with decent agi items you get a 25ish % chance to crit with an ability that REALLY benefits from a crit. At 35 i was critting with ravage for 450-550 dmg...which is about the same dmg as a lvl 58 starfire.
------Combo: As said above, combine this with sharpened claws for a 25% chance to crit using this ability. You could get it even higher with a little more agi gear.
------Combo2: Use tigers fury, wait 1 tick of energy regen, then ravage for a nice bonus to dmg.
------Combo3: Since a part of ravage's damage is based off how hard you hit...With strength of the wild and predatory strikes, your damage with ravage grows much stronger, especially if you crit cause That's based off how much dmg you do too. Which is why using tigers fury before it helps.
------Combo4: Use shred shortly after executing this ability in a group once tank has agro.
------Type: Great for both pvp and pve...though it should help a little more in pvp where you are going to be backstabbing casters, they have low hp so a crit against them is strong.

Primal Instinct 1 Rank (Lowers the mana cost of shifting)
------Point of talent: To allow the feral specialized druid to use his feral forms more often, not worrying as much about the mana cost to do so. Allows him to use it more freely in groups even if he's doing some healing.
------Usefulness: Medium-High, Depends how often you shift a fight. If you plan on shifting often the mana saved adds up quickly. At high level shifting costs around 700ish mana so this would bring it down around 500ish. Saving you 200 mana per shift. The real beauty of it is you need to spend less time in your feral form to regen the mana cost back.
------Combo: You could combine this with reflection to save even more mana...But i wouldn't really count it as a reason to get reflection.
------Combo2: Pretty much allows lots of combos as shifting isn't as mana intensive.
------Combo3: Say you are healing up a storm and grab agro from healing to much, you could shift into cat for reduced cost and use cower to lower your agro, then stay in cat form, stack a few dots, and shift out and go back to healing.
------Type: Great for pvp and pve...both require lots of shifting, though pvp is more so

Improved Pounce 2 Ranks (Gives a 50-100% chance to gain an extra combo point when using pounce)
------Point of talent: To help build your combo points up faster after backstabbing with pounce. This allows you to get Rip off sooner so it does its full duration of damage.
------Usefulness: Low-Medium - Many like ravage better.
------Combo: See improved shred
------Combo2: Combined with blood frenzy you could start the fight with 3 combo points. Throw in a quick claw or 2 because of ferocity and you should have 4-5 points to execute a rip.
------Combo3: Use tiger's fury before pouncing if you don't get improved shred to do that combo.
------Combo4: Use Rake & rip to stack 3 dots after using pounce.
------Combo4: Pounce, Faerie Fire, Rake/Claw
------Type: Great for pvp and pve.