[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 tanking builds and glyphs for levels 40-79

Lissanna at Restokin posts her recommended builds and glyph choices for Druids dual speccing as feral tanks at level 40, 50, 60, 70 & 79. This joins her dual speccing healing guide.

Feral Druid Bear Tank FAQ update for Patch 3.1

Kalon at ThinkTank posts his revised Feral Bear Druid Tank FAQ that is updated to Patch 3.1. It is focused on raiding bear tanks and includes ability rotations, gear, talents, glyphs and professions.

Patch 3.1 Feral Druid Bear Tank build

New Druid blogger (but longtime Feral Druid) Tarskin posts the Feral Druid Bear Tank build he’s running Ulduar with. Not only does he list his reasoning behind each talent, but goes over his Glyph choices as well.

Feral spec options in 3.1 for raiding Druids

Karthis at Of Teeth and Claws looks at the builds and glyphs that both Cat and Bear Feral Raiding Druids are looking at come Patch 3.1.

Glyph recommendations for Feral Druids in 3.1

The Altosis blog looks at the changes to Druid glyphs in Patch 3.1 and gives recommendations on what glyphs to choose for Feral Cat Druids (PvE & PvP) and Feral Bear Tanks.

Druid Glyph changes in Patch 3.1 on the PTR

MMO-Champion has dug out the new and changed Glyphs on the PTR with Patch 3.1. Analysis to come.

Druid

  • Glyph of Rebirth – Players resurrected by Rebirth are returned to life with 100% health. (Old: Increases the amount of health on a character brought back to life via Rebirth by 100%.)
  • Glyph of Starfall – Reduces the cooldown of Starfall by 90 sec. (Old: Increases the duration of Starfall by 2 sec.)
  • Glyph of Berserk (new) – Increases the duration of Berserk by 5 sec.
  • Glyph of Wild Growth (new) – Wild Growth now affects up to 6 targets.
  • Glyph of Nourish (new) – Your Nourish heals an additional 6% for each of your heal over time effects present on the target.
  • Glyph of Savage Roar (new) – Your Savage Roar ability grants an additional 6% bonus damage done.
  • Glyph of Typhoon (new) – Reduces the cooldown of your Typhoon spell by 3 sec.
  • Glyph of Barkskin (new) – Reduces the chance you’ll be critically hit by melee attacks by 1 to 0% while Barkskin is active.

Feral Bear Tank Glyphs for Wrath raiding Druids

Karthis from Of Teeth and Claws revised his bear tank Glyphs last December after some convincing evidence from his fellow bear blogger Flyv. Check out his current line up and reasoning behind the change over.