Thick Hide

Thick Hide ranks in Forever

1. 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.
2. Rank 2 Rank 2 values not yet captured from footage.
3. Rank 3 Rank 3 values not yet captured from footage.

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

What Thick Hide 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. It has 5 ranks in Classic Era rather than 3.

1. Rank 1 Increases your Armor contribution from items by 2%.
2. Rank 2 Increases your Armor contribution from items by 4%.
3. Rank 3 Increases your Armor contribution from items by 6%.

Where Thick Hide sits in the Feral Combat tree

Thick Hide is a Feral Combat talent for Druid. You need 5 points in Feral Combat before the row it sits on opens.

• Same row: Feral Swiftness, Feral Instinct, Brutal Impact

How often people take Thick Hide

36 of the 142 public Druid builds saved here — 25% — put at least one point in Thick Hide. 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