Some of feral's abilities scale very well off of weapon dps. Riot stick has high dps (24.7) and also has 8 crit. Both the dps and crit scale up further on a 20 in a BG. Weapon dps is the number one stat priority for a feral.
People nowadays... you can make a 20 p2p and have the perks of being a p2p... WITH THE SCALING! AWMYGAWD, but no, I've never seen a 24 feral either lol.