Second, I believe you get two points of armor per point of agility; Mongoose is good for 240 extra armor when it procs. Or rather, more, because if I recall correctly the armor from agility does get the multiplier.

I remember having a spot of trouble in my first TOC Heroic. CC is very useful as stated above. I’ll usually get an MD on one of the targets to help start me off on threat. The most important thing though is positioning.

It’s also worth mentioning that in the early stages of gearing your new Bear, PVP items are a really good and relatively painless way to do it. They don’t put out the threat you might require at higher levels but are chocced full of Armor and Stamina with a decent chunk of Agility on the side.

tank?
?
put ur def gear on
<== Bear
what sort of gear r u wearing?
bear tank, let’s do this

/pull group, the healer quits the party, those who were left all die.

Yes, I should have taken the time to explain that I am not a warrior, pally nor DK. I should have taken his lack of knowledge & helped him understand the way of the bear, instead I rez’d and found he was in Icecrown, so lampooned him in /1

/1 {healer’s name} just left a HToC before the first pull because he wanted me to put on my plate +def gear, and I wouldn’t.
/1 Did he ask if you were def-capped? LOL, I hate that on my bear alt
/1 I didn’t say you needed plate
/1 Yeah, I don’t heal any instance on my priest unless I have my plate gear on

I don’t have Elephant to get the exact text, but this is close enough.
Turned it into a guild run & flawless victory.

Note for Enrage:
When the Black night phase starts & he’s doing his speech, right when he says “little” in the “your pathetic little combat”, switch into bear form for 10 rage (if you have that talent) and pop enrage straight away. With that timing, the enrage (and therefore the armour debuff) will finish about a second before combat begins. Max available rage all ready for threat generation = Win.

Thanks again BBB, love your posts.

Nokin… Feral since Feral was not cool! (wait.. it’s always been cool to me! )

Cheers m8, keep up the good work

Reading the mechanics, resil is still useful for the spell damage received regardless if it came from PVP or PVE.

I macroed my barkskin and my lacerate together as well as barkskin and swipe. I also macroed a raid or party warning on SI+Bezerk+dodge trinkie+Frenzied Regen+ Enrage as my ultimate “O Crap: I am going to die” button. The dodge trinket will mitigate the loss in armour whilst getting rage from dodging, Enrage and getting healed with FR.

I suggest getting some more badges for vendor tier pieces and keep puggin VOA as well.

Good onya mate I wish you well.

Kaliska, make sure you didn’t miss picking it up when it was introduced, I believe you had to go back to your trainer and learn it. For max level characters at the time, you might not have seen your trainer since then. Savage Defense gives you a shield every time you crit. So that means crit is officially a mitigation stat for bears. And the amount it shields you is 1/4 of your attack power. AP is now a mitigation stat for you. Obviously, you don’t want to go overboard with crit and ap for a bear. But if you completely neglected them to get the stats you said in your e-mail, you may need to rethink that. Personally, on my bear, I gem almost entirely shifting twilight opals to give me some stam, and the agi for dodge, crit, ap, and armor all from one stat. How wonderful is that?

Also, you might want to let us look at your talent spec. Looking you up on the armory and matching servers based on the stats you said you have, I think I know your spec. But just make sure you’ve got Primal Gore. That will allow you to cycle targets, putting up one stack of Lacerate as you do, and every time it happens to crit on any of the targets you’ve got it up on, it’ll proc your shield.