[Feral] The basics of bear tanking for beginners

Allison Robert at WoW.com has posted her beginner's guide to Druid bear tanking. She covers the strengths and weaknesses of the class, the stats to look for in gear, talent build, leveling overview, recommended heirlooms, ability rotation, gems, enchants and glyphs. Great for anyone tanking as bear for the first time.

Feral Druid Bear tanking gear list updated with Icecrown Citadel equipment

The ThinkTank! blog has compiled a list of Feral Druid Bear Tanking gear for every slot including drops/rewards from Icecrown. Kalon includes his reasoning behind his best in slot choices as well.

Feral Druid guide on the melee hit table

The Fluid Druid blog gives a surprisingly painless explanation of the hit table and how feral gear affects it. Links to the more math heavy Elitist Jerks included for you masochists.

WoW Patch 3.3 Icecrown Frozen Halls guide for all Druid Specs

Allison Robert at WoW.com has devoted this week's Shifting Perspectives druid column to playing well in PuGs and also druid strats for the Icecrown 5-man Frozen Halls instances. She covers tactics for Feral Bear Tanks, Feral Cat druids, Balance Moonkin and Resto Trees for Forge of Souls, Pit of Saron and Halls of Reflection.

Another Feral bear Druid tank gear guide for Icecrown Patch 3.3

This time the Big Bear Butt blog is providing a gear list for Feral Bear Tank druids that includes WoW Patch 3.3 drops. He covers every slot and gives a good menu of choices with WoWHead links that allows you to customize your choices based on your stat needs.

Feral Bear Druid tank best in slot gear guide for Icecrown Citadel Patch 3.3

Darksend at the Mother Bear druid blog has posted a BIS guide for feral bear tanks based on the new Patch 3.3 Icecrown Citadel itemization. She goes through slot by slot comparing set pieces of T10 to non-set pieces and then compiles a final list for every slot.

WoW Patch 3.3 Icecrown notes for Druids

Druids

• Prowl: This ability no longer has multiple ranks and penalizes movement speed by 30%.
• Rebirth: The cooldown on this spell has been lowered from 20 minutes down to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.
• Rejuvenation: The base duration on all ranks of this spell is now 15 seconds.
• Tranquility: The cooldown on this spell has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.
• Talents
  • Balance
    • Eclipse: This effect will not activate again within 15 seconds of either type of Eclipse effect firing, in addition to the existing 30-second cooldown for each type of Eclipse. In addition, Eclipse now grants a 40% critical strike chance to Starfire and 40% increased damage to Wrath, up from 30%.
    • Force of Nature: Health on the treants has been increased.
  • Feral Combat
    • Predatory Strikes: The Predatory Swiftness buff from this talent now has an 8-second duration.
  • Restoration
    • Gift of the Earthmother: Redesigned. This talent now increases spell haste by 2/4/6/8/10% and reduces the base global cooldown of Lifebloom by 2/4/6/8/10% instead of its previous effects.
• Pets
  • Avoidance (passive): Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.
• Glyph of Rapid Rejuvenation: This glyph allows for the druid’s haste to reduce the time between the periodic healing effects of Rejuvenation.

Bug Fixes

• Glyph of Hurricane: Now modifies the spell tooltip on Hurricane to indicate the spell also applies a movement slowing effect.
• Hurricane: When cast from Bear Form, Cat Form, or Dire Bear Form, this spell will now channel properly instead of stopping the channel as soon as the shapeshift is cancelled.
• Infected Wounds: This ability is no longer considered to be in the magical defense category; therefore spell hit no longer applies to its activation. Tooltip error corrected.
• Nature's Grace: The tooltip now correctly indicates that it will not be activated from periodic spell critical strikes.
• Swipe (Bear): Tooltip corrected to display 8 yard range.
• Rejuvenation: Druids will no longer get a more powerful spell error message when attempting to overwrite a Rejuvenation they cast.

Druid idol guide for all specs for WoW Patch 3.2

The Altosis Druid blog posts a round up of Druid idols for all specs current up to WoW Patch 3.2. He gives recommendations for each and shows you how you can acquire the high end ones without raiding.

Pre-raid gear guide for Feral Druids in Wrath

Jacemora created a list of gear for Feral Druid’s who want to gear for raiding in Wrath. He provides options from questing rewards, boss drops, auction house finds and PvP turn-ins.

Druid strat guides for Ulduar raid boss Freya

Allison Robert at WoW.com continues her Ulduar boss strat guides with a look at the Freya encounter from the point of view of all four major druid specs.

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