Feral Druids see powershifting out, shifting power in WoW Forever
The wow forever powershifting out shifting report covers Shifting Power, Feral PvE and PvP trade-offs, and a beta Energy behavior Wowhead says remains uncertain.
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Wowhead reports that a WoW Forever beta update replaces the familiar Feral Druid powershifting setup with the Shifting Power talent. For players, that means Energy recovery is tied to a talent with a cooldown rather than the historical Vanilla method.
What Shifting Power does
The report says Shifting Power instantly converts 55% of base Mana into 40 Energy. It has a 16-second cooldown, reduced to 8 seconds with two points in a related talent, and does not require a macro. Unlike the historical powershifting comparison, it does not remove slows or snares.
Feral Druids also lose 
King of the Jungle, which provided 60 Energy. Wowhead’s analysis considers the change beneficial for PvE because the additional Energy outweighs the lost 15% damage increase, which it says had 20% uptime. For PvP, the report describes less burst and heavier Mana use.
What remains uncertain in the beta
Wowhead says shifting out of Cat Form and back can remove all Energy, forcing another use of Shifting Power to recover it. The report notes that this may be an oversight because the tooltip wording appears to suggest that existing Energy should remain, while Energy should not be gained outside Cat Form. It also says the behavior affects utility actions that require leaving Cat Form, including an interrupt or stun.
This is an observed Wowhead beta report, not a Blizzard confirmation. The supplied evidence does not establish final Forever tuning, launch behavior, a complete Feral Druid talent build, or an optimal rotation. The Vanilla powershifting comparison is historical context and does not prove how Feral mechanics will work at launch.