Druid Tanking

Right, lvl 80 is looming and i cant find a lot on the net about druid tanking in Wrath. Big Bear Butt, all tho informative on most topics, is a bit confusing :( i guess I'll just have to play it by ear for a bit.

The LW Eviscerators gear is very good for for crafted items, i think having most of the set already will be a great boost for hitting some of the normal lvl 80 instances. The only thing is the amount of resilence on it, il have to swap it out quite quickly for a more useful stat.

With the changes to the Druid feral tree in wrath, and use tanks now getting all our crit immune from just one talent, defense rating is a totally unneeded stat. Agility and Stam seem to be the most useful followed by Hit and Expertise, and from what i can tell we wont need 2 sets of gear for feral, the DPS and Tanking sets will be pretty much the same, the only difference i can see would be what enchants we would put on them, for tanking stam enchants and dps agility.

I found the Emmerald has updated his BearGearList, this is not his final list but will give us a really good base to work from.

From what i can remember post Kara, bear tanking was all about feel, we have great abilitys, Charge , 15 second cool down, really useful, if you open with a charge/swipe combo on trash, you can pretty much guarantee that if you do lose aggro on an add and it storms off, charge will be of C/D and you would be able to pick it up quick. But if you have a good team they should be watching aggro and targeting the same mob you'll be spamming Lacerate on so aggro shouldn't be an issue.

If we stick to Raid Targeting and kill orders i think a combo of Lacerate, Swipe , Maul and Mangle should be suffice to hold onto aggro. And with our gear being very Agility based, we should be seeing some seriously good dps too, which cant be bad.

Im also liking the changes to swipe coming up in 3.1!!! No more 'cone' range on it, means not having to 'round' up all the mobs so that they are in front of us to be hit, MINT!

So when the big day arrives and Rev hits lvl 80 then i'll be able to test what method is working for me, how my dps is doing and what sort of threat im pulling.

Look back for Tanking instances soon :)

Rev