Reason I ask is I am coming up to choosing my last 3 talent points and not sure which to go for.

My ideal talent spec is for a raid bear. Just a bit confuzzled.

Thanks in advance and keep up the good work :)

That’s why I’m sure there is a bear guide someone put out, somewhere, WoWWiki or someplace, that was read and internalized by a lot of early bear tankers.

The effects are far worse for someone in the beginner-tank stages of gear than someone like you tanking end game stuff in top gear. I’m not surprised your results were different. :)

I wanted to confirm a few things on the changes made for tanking and you had it all covered.
I am a Druid officer for my guild and one of its longest member. Your articles and tips (from other readers as well – you have a good following) have helped me understand the mechanics in better detail (helps me perform better), it also has made it easier for me to advice/tip my fellow druids.

So far you are the best blogger for Bear tanking that I have found.

Plus you have good taste in music!! Rock on!

On the bright side, I already picked up the whole set when I was 60 (we found a bear tank who could tank all four shades at the same time, and about half the mobs there)… and the stamina ring from the headless horseman… it’s more now a point of getting to 70 before Thursday (which might not happen now that WoW was down today all day)… and if it stacks better then the heavy clefthoof set for Kara gear. I think I’ll try to grab the clefthoof boots, stylin’ Purple Hat, and see what other goodies I can get to fill the gaps left. It’ll make for alot less skinning in the short term.

I don’t think I’ll be venturing into Northrend for at least a week, but can gain a few levels in outlands while I wait for the mobs to respawn in Northrend or in the Deathknight starting area.

Have fun at the BWW on wednesday night!

As for the undead stuff, I picked the set up on my kitty and although not as good as my current gear, the amount of haste on the whole set is simply ludicrous! To a freshly dinged 70, it’ll definitely help dampen the strain of leveling in the snows of Northrend; the fighting-against-undead bonus is seriously sweet too.

Won’t stop me from looking at a certain level of nitpicking and say, “Dude, wassup wit dat?” every once in a while, though.

Grats on tanking and having fun Mooriah… it’s a lot of fun, when you feel that you ahve a handle on what you should be equipping, what the tools you have available are, and feel you can be counted on to do a solid job. It’s incredibly rewarding. I’ve been mostly doing Hunter DPS in raids for a while, because I have known for a while, it’s going to be time to tank tank tank when the expansion comes. I’ve done some Heroic Magister’s tanking, and I did a ZA clear, but mostly it’s been hunter. I can hardly wait to get some new stuffs to tank. :)

Ursiheil, I don’t know how the Undead Slayer stuff stacks up, ebcause I didn’t do any of it no my druid. I only did it on my Hunter, because I wanted my Hunter to have a Paladin pet. :)

From what I have seen, however, the Undead Slayer sets are all extremely powerful sets, especially against undead. The generous Haste Rating is very sweet. I will check em out, but I think if you want to pursue them, you really can’t go wrong. For ease of access, they are kick ass.

Anywho, thanks for your great blog. I level to 50 as a Horde Moonkin and then flipped to kitty DPS when I got tired of drinking all of the time. I ran to 70 hardly ever going into bear form. My tiny guild already had a stuck-up warrior tank that didn’t “need any help at allt.” So, I became a DPS machine. We four manned virtually all of the non-heroic outland instances before the nerf patches of late. It was a lot of fun punishing anything and everything in kitty form with all my engineering gear added on. Then our tank left and suddenly we resorted to pugging a tank. I stumbled across your blog listing what you needed for Kara at 70 and I already had half of the hard stuff to get and the money to get the rest! I became a big butt bear tank!

I found your tips invaluable to becoming a tank. I’ve leveled a holy priest, affliction lock, and hunter but being a tank was totally different. THE PRESSURE!! After a few false starts tanking ramps for practice, I got the hang of it. Now I regularly tank Kara, non-heroics, and off tank ZA and heroics with ease. In fact, I often pug in with our old tank and it really drives him insane that I have 4k more armor and 2k more health. I can easily match or surpass his rage now and often bail him out when he bites off more than he can chew. It’s great fun being a tank once you get the hang off all the druid idiosyncrasies.

Thanks so much for the great blog I’ve learned a ton and can’t wait for the expansion to come out. I’m going to become even more of a beast!