[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.

Best Feral Druid Bear Tank threat rotation

Karthis from Of Teeth and Claws posts the ability rotation that will produce maximum threat for Druid Feral Bear Tanks. He also has links explaining how the different bear threat abilities work if you want more detail.

The threat value of Feral Faerie Fire for Druid Bear tanks

Kalon at ThinkTank looks into the threat numbers of the revamped Feral Faerie Fire ability and how it compares to other Bear threat generating abilities.

Druid Healing guide for Druid tanks & tanking guide for healers

The Casual WoW blog knows that many druids will be taking on roles new to them with the advent of dual specs in Patch 3.1, so they put together an overview of healing for Druid tanks and tanking for Druid healers.

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.

Why +hit and +expertise is important for Feral Bear Tank Druids

The Leatherbelly blog goes over +hit and +expertise for Feral Bear Tank Druids explaining how it relates to a mob’s Parry chance and what that means to the raid (and it’s not good.) Eyes glaze over with all the math and talk of tables? Here’s the short version.

Why Feral Bear Tank Druids no longer need Defense gear

Karthis from Of Teeth and Claws explains why Defense gear is pretty much useless for Feral Bear Tank Druids since Wrath.

BigBearButt on Savage Defense and spike damage

One of the most popular bear tank bloggers weighs in on today’s Savage Defense announcement. He has a solid prediction on what this means for gearing and the new headache this will mean for healers.

Moar mathz on Savage Defense

Kalon on ThinkTank does some serious math on Savage Defense based on a little speculation and a lot of numbers. Interested in what kind of gear set up will work best with this new 3.1 ability? This post has the best answer I’ve seen so far.

Will new Savage Defense ability change how Bear Tanks gear?

Karthis from Of Teeth and Claws explores the ramifications of the newly announced Savage Defense passive ability for bear tanks. Will bear tanks go after more +crit gear and will this set them the feral spec up for a nerf down the line? Great analysis as always from Karthis.