RAWRbomb

A druid in flight form can shift out, drop toward an enemy, then feral charge. This redirects the fall toward the enemy and when properly executed, the druid takes no falling damage.

How to perform a successful RAWRbomb

• In flight form, find your target.
• Fly overhead, to directly over the target or very slightly behind it.
• Target them, and shift out of flight form.
• While falling, furor will give you enough rage to perform a feral charge.
• When in range, charge.

The hardest part of this is the timing. You can't quite look straight down, so you're always at a small angle forward. When you have the camera facing downward, pressing 'forward' makes you fly in the direction the camera is facing, rather than parallel to the ground so it can be hard to follow.

It is necessary to lead the target enough that your fall time doesn't allow them to walk out of your charge range, but you need to be high enough to allow furor's 'instant' 10 rage time to activate.

Practicing may help; have a friend swim into water deep enough to prevent fall damage, and start a duel. Use this to learn what 'in range' looks like at various heights, and exactly how far you have to fall before furor activates. Then have your friend move around to help you learn to lead moving targets.

Advanced techniques

• While falling, cast [Moonfire]. This has the potential drawback of alerting your enemy to his rapidly approaching doom.
• For druids lacking furor, it is possible to shift, drop, activate enrage and gain enough energy to charge.

These both require more height, however, due to the cooldown and thus increasing the risk of perfoming instead a RAWRsplat.

RAWRsplat

The unfortunate result of a failed RAWRbombing. You drop to the ground, take falling damage, leave yourself open to your enemy's counterattack and look exceedingly foolish. The moment of 'WTF?' of suddenly seeing a large bear plummet to its near-death may give you enough time to escape, however.

The RAWRbomb Macro

A spammable macro that will shift you out of form, into bear form, and feral charge your target. Note: This particular one will only work for cat, caster, travel, swim and flight forms; will most probably not work for Moonkin or Tree druids unless they are not in those forms, and will probably not dismount you from a mount unless you have the 'auto dismount' option set.

The original macro was posted in part in the druid forum in a message I can not now find with some variables that needed to be changed to work. After some fooling around, I came up with this:

/cancelaura [stance:2] Aquatic Form; [stance:3] Cat Form; [stance:4] Travel Form; [stance:5] Flight Form
/cast [nostance] Dire Bear Form; [stance:1] Feral Charge

Make sure that there are no spaces before the slashes. This has been tested and works on my feral druid. Since if you are already in bear form this just feral charges, you can replace your normal feral charge button with it and save one.

Possible Modifications:

• Add 'cast moonfire' between shifting out and shifting into bear. This has the problem as mentioned above of activating the global cooldown, thus requiring much more height, thus an increased chance of cratering.
• Replace "[stance:5] Flight Form" with "[stance:5] Moonkin" or "[stance:5] Tree of Life" (I'm not sure what the internal name of the form is) and add "[stance:6] Flight Form". (Verify?)
• Add 'cast feral faerie fire if already in bear and too close to charge' mechanic.
• Add 'cast Enrage' for druids without the furor talent.
• Add 'if target is friendly or neutral cast /dance'. This is /silly.

History

The first iteration of this concept still available on the official WoW forums was by Mir of Andorhal, who originally called it 'rawrbear', as quoted in his message [1], below:

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• 0. It's a bird.. It's a plane.. it's a Rawrbear | 09/25/2006 04:32:49 PM EDT

Just something fun I've been thinking of. True flight form isn't an attack form, but I'm curious if you can shift out at any hight.

Drop out of the sky, shift to bear and feral charge. I believe this works like a mages blink and you actually will not take any fall damage because the charge overrides it.

It would just be fun to drop from the sky as a giant bear and charge someone out of nowhere.

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RAWRbomb quickly became more widespread, but other names occasionally appear, such as BirdBearBomb, dropbear[2], bearbomb and bearpedo.

An ASCII diagram on how to successfully Rawrbomb was drawn by Aledoresta of Dalaran, but was unfortunately too difficult to format for inclusion here. It can be seen as of this writing at this link: [3]

The definitive RAWRbomb Instructional Video by Xxorn of Durotan can be seen on Youtube here [4]. This includes several RAWRsplats, and shows the effect of latency, as he hits the ground, then charges, with no fall damage.