Tank Help for Cataclysm

Cataclysm tank gear list (mostly for warriors but possibly helpful for other tanks).
http://swordboard.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/cataclysm-dungeons-gear-list-for-tanks/

Help for the tanking bear.
http://primalprecision.blogspot.com/2010/11/relearn-new-tanking-style.html

Help for the low level tanking bear.
http://theincbear.com/low-level-bear-tanking/

How to deal with casters if you are a tank.
http://www.jadedalt.com/2010/11/27/tanking-tips-casters/

Opening moves (rotations) for the DK tank.
http://pwnwear.com/forum/priority-rotation-system-t744-15.html#p13267

http://pwnwear.com/2010/12/02/opening-moves-for-dk-tank/

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Help for the Feral Druid Starter Tank

Big Bear Butt discusses the things a new tank has to master.  Note that this is specific information for feral druids but his point that you will never have good enough gear to avoid criticism from the geniuses that know everything that populate WOW is valid for all.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/07/13/reader-mail-finding-the-confidence-to-tank/

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Feral Druid Guides

Tankspot has updated their feral druid guide for Patch 3.3
http://www.tankspot.com/article.php?id=113807

Bear Tanking in Patch 3.3.3
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=23767644953&sid=1

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Gearing the New Level 80 Character (Patch 3.3.3)

WOW Insider is starting a series on how to gear a new Level 80.  The first article is about the feral druid bear.
http://www.wow.com/2010/04/27/shifting-perspectives-gearing-a-new-bear-at-80/

Death Knight Tanks
http://www.wow.com/2010/06/01/lichborne-gearing-for-new-level-80-tank-death-knights/

The Mage
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/15/arcane-brilliance-level-80-mage-gearing-roadmap-part-1/

http://www.wow.com/2010/05/22/arcane-brilliance-level-80-mage-gearing-road-map-part-2/

Holy paladins are next.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/16/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-gearing-a-new-holy-paladin-at-80/

http://www.wow.com/2010/05/23/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-gearing-a-new-holy-paladin-at-80/

Tankadins (Protection Paladin)
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/19/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-gearing-a-new-level-80-tankadin/

http://www.wow.com/2010/05/26/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-gearing-a-new-level-80-tankadin/

http://www.wow.com/2010/06/02/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-gearing-a-new-level-80-tankadin/

Retribution Paladins
http://www.wow.com/2010/06/09/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-gearing-a-new-level-80-ret-paladi/

http://www.wow.com/2010/06/16/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-gearing-a-new-level-80-ret-paladi/

http://www.wow.com/2010/06/23/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-gearing-a-new-level-80-ret-paladi/

Warrior Tanks
http://www.wow.com/2010/06/11/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-tank-gearing-as-a-fresh-80/

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Learn to Tank in Three Easy Lessons

The Older Gamer rolls a druid bear tank and goes to town.
http://oldergamer.com/2009/12/24/learning-to-tank-part-1/

http://oldergamer.com/2010/01/10/learning-to-tank-part-2/

http://oldergamer.com/2010/01/20/learning-to-tank-part-3/

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The Feral Druid Bear Guide (Patch 3.3)

WOW Insider continues its series on current class information with a profile of the feral druid bears.  This covers the advantages and disadvantages of playing a feral bear, has information on talents and stats, heirlooms, gear, enchants, and glyphs you need as a high level bear, and covers spell rotations/casting sequences.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/17/shifting-perspectives-bear-101/#continued

There's a link to a video that shows the feral druid bear casting sequence in action.  I've included this below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HciHmfncLc0

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BBB Talks Bear Threat

Big Bear Butt contributes to bear theory crafting with a discussion on generating threat as a bear feral druid.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/12/31/some-discussion-about-bear-threat-and-faerie-fire/

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BBB's Lower Level Bear Tank Guide

Big Bear Butt has started a bear tanking guide for lower levels.  Here is the first part.  I would encourage all bear tanks to read this as BBB knows a great deal about feral druid tanking and gives great tips.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/12/29/new-project-tanking-through-the-levels/

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Jousting as a Tank in Patch 3.3

Strategies on tanking as a feral druid bear in the Argent Tournament. Some mention of the jousting tank bug.
http://thebearflank.blogspot.com/2009/12/jousting-33.html

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Bear Tankatude

Big Bear Butt comments he rarely sees other bear tanks while doing PUG Heroics.  I'm posting his article about bear tanks and how great they are so you can see Tesh's terrific artwork (above, links to his game blog and art portfolio are on BBB's site below)  and because I love the comment where paladins are called Pallywhackers.  By the way, the Solo MMO Player loves his bear tank.

http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/12/16/do-you-have-bear-tankatude/

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The Best Gear from Ice Crown Citadel

Nice analysis of the best Ice Crown Citadel gear for tanking bear feral druids.
http://mother-bear.blogspot.com/2009/12/news-update-armory-lists-all-icc-items.html

http://mother-bear.blogspot.com/2009/12/33-rings-necks-trinkets-caps-and-emblem.html

The best Ice Crown Citadel gear for feral cat druids.
http://wowthinktank.blogspot.com/2009/12/druidbest-non-set-piece-for-cats-in.html

Best Ice Crown Citadel gear for feral bear druids.
http://wowthinktank.blogspot.com/2010/01/druid-icecrown-gear-list-for-bears.html

Best hunter loot
http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2009/12/11/hunter-loot-from-icecrown-citadel-raids/

http://www.wow.com/2010/01/07/scattered-shots-its-all-hunter-loot-in-icc-part-1/

http://www.wow.com/2010/01/14/scattered-shots-its-all-hunter-loot-in-icc-part-2/

Best retribution paladin drops
http://rhida.ch/2009/12/18/icecrown-first-wing-loot-and-emblem-of-frost-pick-order-list/

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CAT AND BEAR TOOLS FOR THE MATH MINDED

Loot weighting discussion for cat and bear-flavored druids from April 2009 (Patch 3.1).  Read the comments, too.
http://teethandclaws.blogspot.com/2009/04/loot-weighting-for-31.html

Here is a direct link to the worksheet in the article.  Note the tabs at the bottom so you can choose raw or normalized data.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rXOB-tOrwruDI_iCE9l0I7g

From December 2008, here is a feral gear worksheet.  Notes about the worksheet.
http://teethandclaws.blogspot.com/2008/12/feral-gear-worksheet-for-wotlk.html

This link to the worksheet is for Mixed Rankings.  There are tabs at the bottom for cat only and bear only.  The location section was not done.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pdnkV0444wHn_grOhx1RkNg

Cat/bear simulation tool from Elitist Jerks.
http://elitistjerks.com/f73/t49702-feralbynight_cat_bear_simulation_tool/

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Feral Druid (Bears) Armor List for Patch 3.2

Big Bear Butt has posted a list of what he calls Patch 3.2 Bear Gear Starter List (Armor) for New Level 80s on his blog.  The list doesn't contain gear from raids as BBB says he's not asked about that gear.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/11/26/patch-3-2-bear-gear-starter-list-armor/

More from BBB
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/12/13/patch-3-3-starter-bear-gear-lists-armor/

More on bear strike and crit defense here.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/09/23/questions-about-defense-and-survival-of-the-fittest/

Bear threat generation
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/09/23/questions-on-threat-generation/

Earlier bear threat generation
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/05/19/threat-generation-a-brief-discussion/

Tanking the lower levels as a bear (Part One:  Armor)
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/08/24/how-to-bear-tank-the-lower-levels-part-1-gear/

Tanking the lower levels as a bear (Part Two:  Miscellaneous Gear)
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/12/20/patch-3-3-starter-bear-gear-lists-miscellaneous/

More on bear gear
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/08/06/thoughts-while-studying-bear-gear/

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A Feral Druid Ruminates on Cats Versus Bears

Of Claws and Paws asks why most feral druids are playing as cats and comes up with a four letter answer-gear.  The rest of the article explains how gear for cats and bears has changed over the life of the game.
http://ofclawsandpaws.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/winter-hibernation/

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FERAL DRUID GEAR LISTS (Cat and Bear)

Here's the front door for four feral druid gear lists.  You can look at cat DPS, cat "high gear" DPS, bear mitigation, or bear "high gear" mitigation lists.  Each list is broken down into sections such as head, neck, shoulders, etc.  This looks as if it is going to be very useful,  but carefully read the information posted on the front door to know exactly what is going on.  Note:  This is up-to-date as of Patch 3.1.3 except for a few Ulduar hard modes items.  We are currently at Patch 3.2.2
http://www.emmerald.net/

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COMPARING BEAR AND CAT GEAR (FERAL DRUIDS)

A three part article discussing the differences and similarities among cat and bear form feral druids.
http://wowthinktank.blogspot.com/2009/01/druidthe-anti-tank-maximizing-dps-for.html

http://wowthinktank.blogspot.com/2009/01/druidthe-anti-tank-part-2-stats-case.html

http://wowthinktank.blogspot.com/2009/01/druid-anti-tank-part-3-blowing-stuff-up.html

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BIG BEAR BUTT'S TIPS FOR NEW BEAR TANKS

BBB addresses the perception that bears can't tank and gives excellent advice for raiding bears.  This is a Must Read for tanking bears.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/10/23/advice-on-being-less-squishy/

About bear consumables
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/12/26/patch-3-3-bear-gear-consumables/

Bear mechanics for beginners
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/12/26/intro-to-the-basics-of-bear-mechanics/

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Why Do Druids Not Play as Bears?

WOW Insider talks about the perception that many feral druids don't play in the bear form and the complaints folks have playing about as a bear.
http://www.wow.com/2009/10/21/shifting-perspectives-the-disappearance-of-the-bear/

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BBB Answers Druid and Bear Tank Questions

BBB answers a question about druids' use of Defense and Survival of the Fittest.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/09/23/questions-about-defense-and-survival-of-the-fittest/

BBB answers a question about how bear tanks generate threat.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/09/23/questions-on-threat-generation/

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BBB Looks at Level 80 Paladin Tanks

Big Bear Butt talks about how hard it is to gear a protection paladin for heroics, especially compared to druid bears.  He also lists the sites that helped him dual spec his retribution/protection paladin.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/09/22/a-bears-eye-view-on-paladins/

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