Feline Grace

Fall damage chops off a percentage of your total health, not a fixed amount of health based on the fall distance, so having more HP will result in the same percentage of health taken away regardless of how beefy you are. Besides, which do you think is gonna leave a bigger crater, a cat or bear?

should totally work in travel form... hey it's a cat too!

Same as "Safe Fall" for a rogue, it increases the distance you are allowed to fall before taking damage by 17 yards.
(saves about 30% of your maximum health)

However, if you should 'accidentally' 'fall' off a high cliff while you are riding your kodo, you can, in mid-air, transform into cat form and still take reduced damage from the fall. Just be fast on the button, because if you hit the ground before you turn, it still stings!

Theres always flight form for that :)

As of 4.0.1 cats will not meow when falling from a height that is beyond the original safe distance but not beyond the extended safe distance which would trigger damage.

Actually, because the damage taken is a percentage of your max health, being in bear form or normal form is irrelevent. You lose 4000 in bear form, but when you shift back to normal form, the amount lost is still percentile to your health in your current form, not the form you were in at the time you hit the ground. In other words, you lose 4000 health (1/5 of max health in bear form) in bear form, shift back to normal form and you don't have 4000 HP missing anymore. But instead, you're missing 1/5 of your normal form's max HP, or (using your example of 7000 HP) 1400 HP. So save your heale

"Cheetahs may be feline, but they're as graceful as a brick. This ability doesn't apply to them." - Wowwiki. My favorite way to describe this not working for Travel Form.

Thanks to the [item=43332], druids can now apply this passive ability to all forms, not just cat form.

Cheetahs are hardly long distance runners though, they can't hold that sprint for much more than ten seconds. I'd rather Blizzard went with the form the icon seems to imply and made travel form a stag. Or even a doe for the female toons!

Epic post :D

Though there's no druid equivalent of Glyph of Safe Fall. Boo.

*top of mountain "LETS DO DIS! LEEEERRRoooooooyyyyyyy- *splat

although the aura effect appears to be the same, a value of 17 whatever that means. empirical tests show this to not be as effective, although very close, as the rogue version safe fall. this is based on walking off a cliff to the lower portion in lbrs where druids will break stealth on damage but rogues will not.

Then I just will use birdie-form to get down :D

or just use flight form if you have it

You know what they say: "The bigger they are, the harder they fall."

Wish granted, it would seem.

Assuming, of course, you can use it where you are.

Let's say you have 20.000 HP in Bear, 7.000 in normal form. You fall for 20% of your damage. Bears lose 4.000, normal people lose 1.400 HP. Little math wouldn't hurt you ;) Save your healers, fall in normal form instead of bear form.

I do not know how many, if any of you have ever tried this, but, up until last evening when the patch went live I could survive a leap, in cat form, from the edge of Thunder Bluff. I know this because when I first achieved Feline Grace, I lept off the edge near the cannon during Darkmoon Faire.
Actually i had bet with a player that I could jump and survive, and I did. Now I cannot.

Just for your info... for what it's worth.

Besides, which do you think is gonna leave a bigger crater, a cat or bear?

Thank you, I LOL'd at that.

Anyway, thanks for the testing. I was curious myself, and was gonna run some tests, but hadn't got to it yet.

Since feline grace reduces fall damage by 30% of max health, but Dire Bear form increases your stamina by 25%, is it still better to fall in cat form and not bear form due to increased health?

Thats y u shouldn't jump off clifts. If ur friend u to jump off a cilft would u do it too? lol!

Almost any damage taken in prowl or stealth is supposed to knock the rogue or druid out of stealth, and besides a bug from beta affecting rogue stealth (dunno about druid), falling damage is capable of doing so. Therefore -it has surprised me that no one has mentioned this yet, perhaps it is just common sense- the primary function/reason for having this ability is not just to mitigate fall damage, but to mitigate fall damage to avoid prowl (or stealth with the rogue equivalent) from breaking if you happen to fall while stalking an npc or a character.

Avoiding death from fall damage is merely a bonus ;).