Bear tanks are getting more popular as they are finally getting the itemization they need. Perhaps Epic Flying Mount training, for a good long while. I expect that each time one of these drops it will pay for some lucky person's Flying Mount training. One of them is a level 62 BoE blue that far outstrips either. Secondly, while the Unyielding Maul and the Warden Staff are really the only choices for a bear tank currently, there are some VERY nice bear staffs/mauls in BC. Get your Mark of Tyranny (LBRS/UBRS quest) and your Smoking Heart of the Mountain (Enchanting BoP) just in case, but don't sweat it too much. First, there are no known armor trinkets yet in BC, although there are several very high Stamina trinkets. With BC upon us, specific gear lists are for the most part worthless. I'll stick it in the list below as moderately useful, but it may easily go up or down yet.Īrmor > Stamina > Agility > +Dodge and Crit > +Hit > Resilience > Strength/AP > Defense I don't know HOW useful it is, since I haven't worked with it yet and I don't know how many ilvls it consumes. Resilience, on the other hand, is a much more appealing stat, should we have much access to it, and is just as useful to a bear as to any other tank. Defense is not useless to a bear, but it is the bottom priority of one. Of these, bears can't block and parry our superior dodge rate means we'd rather have agility for that and our amplified armor means we'd generally just have a higher armor rating and reduce the damage of the incoming critical hit or crushing blow. What does defense give you? Additional block, parry, and dodge, and reduced critical hits and crushing blows against you. This is the major difference bear tanks have with paladin and warrior tanks, our lack of reliance on +Defense. Sixth is +strength (pure threat generation), and DEAD LAST is +defense. Bears keep aggro by critting, no doubt about it.įourth, then, comes +dodge and +crit at about even levels, followed by +hit at fifth. Not to mention an ILotP heal, if you're ready for one. Besides helping you dodge (your only form of complete damage avoidance), Agility also improves your critical rating, which a fully specced bear should know means 215% threat from a given hit (on top of the bear multiplier, the talent multiplier AND the multiplier of whatever special ability just crit, if any) AND a tasty +5 rage bonus. This was true even before bears got rogue-like dodge ratings from agility it is even moreso now. Third should be (perhaps surprisingly) Agility. Since health is a major consideration for a tank, stamina should be your second consideration when looking for Beartank gear. Similarly, Bears with Heart of the Wild (again, a required bear talent) gain (in BC) 150% of the stamina values on their gear. Thus it is that your very first consideration as a bear when reviewing an item is its armor value. Or, in your case, leather.īears with thick hide (which ALL bears should have) currently gain 5.06 times the armor value of an item when they put it on, and in two weeks will gain 6.05 times the armor value of the item. Ironically, the best person to heal a druid tank tends to be a druid healer, with their slower but more efficient heals.īefore you can step up to the plate, you gotta put some on. It may take more healer blue, but it also gives healers more time to react than a warrior or a paladin tank, and also improves the efficiency of heal over times. Beartanks have a deeper health pool to heal into, and their superior physical mitigation means that they "spike" much less frequently than warriors.
In fact, it is the lack of discretionary combat maneuvers that tends to be the biggest weakness in the bear tank, leaving the burden of a succesful encounter on the healers, and, indeed, bear tanks require the most healing.īut it's not all bad. Looking at the list it may seem that bears should always be the first choice to tank, especially for the alliance with their plethora of fear wards, since most bosses have at least an auto-attack that needs to be dealt with. Susceptibility to Fear (and, presumably, Hibernate) Lack of discretionary combat maneuvers (combat potions, healthstones, abilities and talents such as shield wall and last stand)ģ. Superior aggro generation, especially on multi-target pullsġ. Immunity to Polymorph (Jindo!) and Disarm, and any other humanoid-only abilities.Ĥ.
I found it while browsing the WoW Forums.įirst, though, to set the record straight on a few points, I'll list some of the advantages and disadvantages of the big bad bear, in comparison to the paladin and warrior:ġ. I did search, never saw it posted, and not like it would have been :P
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