Thick Hide (Druid Feral Combat talent) in WoW Forever: all 3 ranks

Every rank of Thick Hide

Rank	Effect	Source
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.	client
2	While in Bear Form, Cat Form, Dire Bear Form, or Moonkin Form, you gain 2 additional base Armor per level and another 1.33 base Armor for each point of defense skill beyond five times your level. This amount can be further increased by multipliers from those forms.	client
3	While in Bear Form, Cat Form, Dire Bear Form, or Moonkin Form, you gain 3 additional base Armor per level and another 2.00 base Armor for each point of defense skill beyond five times your level. This amount can be further increased by multipliers from those forms.	client

Requirements and position

Tree: Feral Combat, row 2, column 4. Needs 5 points in Feral Combat first. The earliest you can finish all 3 ranks is level 17 if you put every point into this tree.
Competes with: Feral Swiftness, Feral Instinct, Brutal Impact in the same row.

Classic comparison

	Classic 1.12	WoW Forever
Name	Thick Hide	Thick Hide
Position	Feral Combat row 2, col 3	Feral Combat row 2, col 4
Ranks	5	3
Rank 1 text	Increases your Armor contribution from items by 2%.	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.

Spells this talent affects

Moonkin Form · 1 rank, learned at 40
Bear Form · 1 rank, learned at 10
Cat Form · 1 rank, learned at 20
Dire Bear Form · 1 rank, learned at 40

Builds that take Thick Hide

Feral Druid leveling build (10–60) · 3/3
Feral Druid Bear tank build (0/31/20) · 3/3

Questions players ask

Where is Thick Hide in the Druid talent tree?

Feral Combat tree, row 2, column 4. You need 5 points spent in Feral Combat before you can learn it.

Is Thick Hide new in WoW Forever?

Thick Hide existed in Classic (Feral Combat row 2, 5 ranks). In Forever it was changed: Classic read "Increases your Armor contribution from items by 2%.".

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