The Bear Guide - Cataclysm Edition

[Khraeme]

Only if we're talking about heroic raids. I have 165k and it's perfectly adequate for me to be the off tank on reg fights that need 3 tanks (Maloriak, Halfus, Cho'Gall). In fact, of all our tanks I'm the most stable-damage-throughput one, unless it works out that I have to tank whelps on Halfus then I'm hurting pretty bad, but that's more a result of poor druid AOE tanking in general and not my survivability.

i hope ur talking 25man...bc 2 tanks is fine in 10 (idk why im bothering asking tho).....but 160-170k is good HP, depending on the fight. Fights like omno, val/thera, council (magic dmg), having little more HP/absorb trinkets is pro (mirror from TB). On fights like Halfus, Magmaw, Maloriak(adds), Chogall, where ur taking a lot of physical dmg, little less HP and more avoidance is better.

Like you Stevo, i take much less dmg then the OT is my group (DK or Pallys), and they have 25k+ more HP then me.

[bavarcarus]

I refer to regular, I assume that someone doin heroic modes would use some more advanced theory crafting tools and/or figure out for themselves how much health is needed. I *think* I sit at 165 or so buffed and haven't run into problems outside of healers petering out due to raid screwups.

[Gootgot]

We are starting heroics this week, and i am wondering if i should regem out of agility into stamina, to give healers more room for error ?

[Auroro]

I would think that blue socket could be change to pure stamina gems while keeping the pure agility and the agility/dodge alone.

[bavarcarus]

We are starting heroics this week, and i am wondering if i should regem out of agility into stamina, to give healers more room for error ?

Might wanna stay with agi and bring some stm gems with you just in case.

[tangedyn]

Stick with your agility gems. Switch to Stamina trinkets if you find that you are getting overkilled by less than 10k hp.

[Auroro]

Ok, I add new Bear guild, it is still work in progress.