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Acquila
Well havent looked into all your stuff yet, just saw your spec.
For heroic survivability its nice to have both Thick Hide and Infection Wounds as they contribute alot to how you stay alive. (For 25:s the Infected Wounds might be overkills since it can be applied by other classes aswell. I still have it for 25:s tho).
I personally have equal experience tanking as you, and I dont find anything wrong with it now.
As for the gear. Since we now gain crit immunity from talents, there is no "tanking gear" anymore. We share items with rogues. That's blizz's philosophy and imo, it's working as intended.
Feel free to check my spec if you want:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Vek%27nilash&n=Shiver
Good luck mate
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Are you using your defensive skills, like Barkskin every time its up? Because my gear isn't great and I have limited experience at Tanking as I leveled my Druid up post WotLK expansion, but I have yet to have any issues with being healed. The heroics I've done, although not many -UK, Nexus, Gundrak, VH and Culling of Strath- have all gone smoothly (even Meathook wasn't an issue), and most of my runs have been pugged. If you use barkskin, trinkets and whatever else when you can they're really isn't much of an issue. No healer has gone OOM on me and very few need many breaks between pulls to drink.
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Rego
Well in my humble opinion you are not geared 'well enough for heroics'
im not sure whether your have given up on feral tanking and gone kitty dps by now, but using level 70 badge loot and tier 4 legs with the attack power enchant on them isnt what i would call gearing for tanking, considering there are leather working boe items and the chain gang leggings which are much better for tanking, also you seem to be using a level 70 trinket for attack power, once again putting emphisis on the fact that level 70 items are NOT tuned for level 80 heroics, with a few exceptions..
if i were to complie a list of a 'decent tanking gear make up it would be sumthing along the lines of;
Head:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37293
and
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41380
in the meta,
Neck:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40679
(badges)
Shoulder:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43481
( put the sons of hodir tanking enchant on it if u have the rep)
Cape:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43565
Chest:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44405
Wrist:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37183
Hands:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44397
Waist:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37194
Legs:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37890
Feet:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37841
Ring1:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37784
Ring2:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37685
(this one is probably up for debate, i didnt really find better, having a little hit never hurt + it factors in dodge and theres a decent amount of stamina, i u really want u can pay for the jewelcrafted one)
Trinket 1:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40683
Trainket 2:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37220
Wep:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37883
(mongoose it if u have the money)
Idol:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=33509
(still the best tanking idol in my opinion)
Im sure common sense would prevail in gemming these items and also collecting them, but i just thought id voice my list (im sure its been done before)
When gemming try straight stamina (+24) and Straight agility (+16)
try and avoid dodge rating until your agility hits the cap which is quite high in bear form
Btw the spelling is probably horrible in this post just excuse it :)
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Rego
Id listen to parrazell, hes quite insightful with regards to feral tanking, helped me out before..
i mean feral tanks only really get good with pretty good gear, something ive noticed and heard repetative complaints from healers healing undergeared tanks,
blizzards intention was to balance feral druids with other tanks yet is still see warriors palla and even dk's out performing our surivability even with barskin and survival instincts and all other high dodge chance..
when i put it in perspective average warrior has around 20% dodge 18-19% parry ~20% block
which totals to around 60% then give them thier high armour (less than a feral druid true but even after the buff it just doesnt seem like enough)
tbh im beginning to see peoples point that druids are really good hybrids, they can heal, spell cast mellee and tank, but they are just copies of other classes
"the class for people who cannot make up thier mind"
"Tank clones, only good up to a certain point"
I more or less just had a tangendal rant, and lost my general point
Just keep in mind that a high hp pool isnt really enough,
when i started gearing i concentrated on agility for the dodge chance, hp doesnt mean alot if thre hits emptys your hp pool.
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