Shredding Attacks

Druid · Feral Combat · opens at 15 points spent · 3 ranks

Shredding Attacks works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Shredding Attacks ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Reduces the Energy cost of your Shred ability by 6 and reduces the Rage cost of your Lacerate ability by 1.
  2. Rank 2 Reduces the Energy cost of your Shred ability by 12 and reduces the Rage cost of your Lacerate ability by 2.
  3. Rank 3 Reduces the Energy cost of your Shred ability by 18 and reduces the Rage cost of your Lacerate ability by 3.

Slot corrected from a secondary source; not yet verified in footage.

What Shredding Attacks does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side. In Classic Era it is called Improved Shred. It has 2 ranks in Classic Era rather than 3.

  1. Rank 1 Reduces the Energy cost of your Shred ability by 6.
  2. Rank 2 Reduces the Energy cost of your Shred ability by 12.
  3. Rank 3 Reduces the Energy cost of your Shred ability by 12.

Where Shredding Attacks sits in the Feral Combat tree

Shredding Attacks is a Feral Combat talent for Druid. You need 15 points in Feral Combat before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Shredding Attacks

34 of the 142 public Druid builds saved here — 24% — put at least one point in Shredding Attacks. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage