Leveling as tank, Any tips?

[Zeta333]

Im also wondering if someone can point me in the direction of a decent build for a bear tank leveling.

[Beachbum]

The standard cookie-cutter bear build linked in the forums with a few quality of life changes suffices:

You don't need infected wounds because nothing really hits hard, so put points in Feral Aggression instead.

If you're just PvE, take the points out of Brutal Impact (hardly anything needs interrupting while levelling) and pickup Nurturing Instinct. This is mostly for when you're not in a dungeon but there are times even as a bear you can toss a heal to help out.

Optional: swap Endless Carnage for Primal Madness. Extra rage is nothing but goodness in the lower level dungeons, especially if you're heirloomed, rage generation will be problematic at times where pulling multiple groups at a time isn't realistically feasible (casters bleh). On the other hand, nothing really hits hard and you won't have problems with threat (assuming you have rage) which is where Endless Carnage helps more.

[Mercadi]

Talent choice is very straightforward - take talents that benefit you as a bear (instead of cat), there will be some cat talents and some that only do good to bears (such as the talent that makes you take less damage in bear form). Read the tooltips of talents, geez.

For aoe threat use swipe, glyph maul. If a mob gets away and taunt is on cd, use Faerie Fire (it does very good damage at lower levels comparing to other abilities).
Glyph mangle next, it will be your #1 single target threat ability. Cast Thorns on yourself before big aoe pulls. Not quite sure if that'll do any more threat, but the packs of mobs will go down much faster.

Feral charge responsibly. If you know that the mobs you charge in will hit you for a lot of damage (there will be a couple of places like that), make sure your healer isn't too far behind.

[baller1308]

What's nice is that you can just spec cat and still tank as bear.