Why some Feral players would take a shorter Berserk to keep its Fear answer

Remortal's reply in the EU thread Feral Druid Talent Changes are horrible is short, and its request is specific. Taking Berserk's removal as given, they asked whether its Fear immunity had simply lasted too long, and offered a trade: "make it 10 or even 8 but don't remove it". For Remortal the button is a counter to Warlocks, and they would rather keep a shorter one than lose it. On the US forums, Swiftkill proposed another fallback: if Berserk goes, move its Fear break onto Enrage.

Nephilim's longer post explains what they think the one button was doing. In Cat Form it added offensive pressure, in Bear Form it offered a separate set of tools, and in PvP its anti-Fear effect gave Ferals, who they say have long struggled against Warlocks and Priests, "a fighting chance" through a cooldown that rewarded timing. Nephilim says they don't need the highest raid DPS, and that more damage would not replace form choices and defensive counterplay: "I don't want Feral to be just a stronger cat. I want Feral to be a better Druid."

The thread does not agree on what is actually changing. Druidgrove stressed "if, if" the datamined rework is true. Cozzy understood that Berserk would become a spell instead of a talent, and Ashreon replied that it was removed. benx said a third-party site listed it as baseline for all specs and that datamines disagreed, then wrote about twenty minutes later that the baseline entry had been taken out of those notes. Significance pointed out that nothing had been published and that the datamined changes were probably still being tested. What the posts settle is what these Ferals want kept, not what Berserk will be.