Originally Posted by
Mlekar
Well, the smart ferals were not complaining about the ICC debuff. We just re-gem any remaining combined gems for pure 30 stam. Even with the -20% dodge debuff, any end-game geared druid tank with proper enchants and glyphs will have approximately 35% dodge (due to generous agility budget on items we setal from rouges...) while in raid plus circa 7% for boss to miss coming from defense. And having avoidance 40-45% isn't that bad either. And that is just for starters of course, we are just getting to the best part...
If properly geared and tanking in guild able to clear ICC (or most of it - we are currently at Dreamwalker), druid tank will be closing to 70k hp when fully raid buffed. Personally I have 67k (and still missing heroic Satrina and using Heart of Iron). And then, when shit happens and the boss is going to use some of his pwning ability, you just hit the magical button and guess what... your healers will just love to heal the beast with hp closing to 100k or even slightly beyond. At that stage, you are almost indestructible, at least for that 20seconds. Not to mention if you combine that with Barskin.
Sweating it with some 37k armor in bear form, guess why the smart ferals were not crying on forums. Those who enjoyed tanking in vanilla WoW as a bear know how bad it was, how underestimated we were and thus we like to keep a low profile indeed... And those stam numbers are for Alliance of course, Horde has the adventage as always... with their insane +5% hp buff for Tauren. I would gladly trade it for my chance to be missed and for a plenty of gold I have.