Its a lot of work though ! I feel bad asking :)

My quick cheatsheet so far: a lot of great badge rewards out there (Trousers of the Scryers’ Retainer, Bloodlust Brooch, Angelista’s Revenge, Staff of the Forest Lord), some fantastic shoulders, hands, wrists, rings and helms from Kara (you’ll have to compete with other melee dps classes for these, especially rogues), and a top trinket from Heroic MagT.

You want to enchant & gem primarily for agility/crit strike chance, then attack power, and round it off with agility food and the agility elixir.

I read somewhere that cats can match another similarly geared melee dps classes for outright dps. This assumes you’re neither dead, nor pulling aggro. If you can pull that off, while also being the MT/OT at different times (Shade of Aran fight comes to mind) then you’re going to be a pretty valued member of the team.

However, I still hope you’ll tackle this topic someday too.

In your bear gear guide, you did a couple things that I think were invaluable and would really improve a piece on cat gear:

First, you spent a little time up front talking about stat priortization (including specific gemming suggestions). This helped me better understand WHY one piece was better than another, and it educated me to make better comparisons with new gear I run across that wasn’t specifically mentioned.

Second, you created some examples of “target” gear sets for a starter 70 tank, a Kara tank and for your “dream” pre-25 raiding tank. Even though I know those are only general guidelines, they helped give me a sense of whether my gear is in at least the ballpark of where it should be.

I just haven’t seen many people include the above, which is too bad because it makes a gear list so much more useful.

PS – Grats on the Andridge artwork. It *is* TEH AWESOME!