If you do not plan on PvPing competitively in Arena Season 6, then Garona's Guise and Conqueror's Nightsong Headguard are both suitable alternatives that you can use instead. However, the pieces below can still serve as solid intermediate upgrades while you are waiting for the BiS option to drop.įurious Gladiator's Dragonhide Helm will be your BiS tanking helm in Phase 2 of WotLK, packing both an elevated Stamina allocation as well as an excellent mix of Threat stats. There are no Emblem of Conquest rewards in the BiS gear setups shown above, since the available rewards are all outclassed by 10-man or 25-man raid drops. In contrast, your second profession choice has hardly any impact in WotLK since all crafting professions provide very comparable PvE benefits, so no other profession-exclusive gear augmentations are assumed.Įmblems of Conquest for Feral Druid Tank Phase 2 As mentioned in our class overview guide, Engineering is such an insanely overpowered profession for PvE that it is assumed that any competitive Feral tank player will have it. Note that both of the above BiS setups include the Engineering-exclusive enchants Nitro Boosts, Reticulated Armor Webbing, and Mind Amplification Dish. For this reason, a second "maximum survival" gear set is presented below, with the goal of minimizing the risk of a tank death on these few encounters:Ĭompared to the balanced configuration, the pure survival setup above swaps in Bronze Pendant of the Vanir, The Leviathan's Coil, and three additional pieces of Season 6 PvP gear in order to access even higher Stamina and avoidance levels. While the above gear set is capable of surviving all of the raid content in Phase 2, a select few boss encounters, most notably Hard Mode Steelbreaker and Algalon the Observer, are known to be particularly punishing on tanks even when the content is on farm. If you are an Alliance bear and are lucky enough to have a Draenei in your party providing the Heroic Presence buff, then the only required change is to swap out the single Vivid Forest Emerald gem that is used for a Forceful Forest Emerald instead, since the Hit Rating on the former will be wasted due to the reduced cap of 7%. Note that the displayed configuration is optimized for Horde players. The ability to access such a sky-high effective health pool (EHP) while wearing primarily melee DPS gear makes Feral Druids phenomenal off-tanks in Ulduar, particularly on encounters like Auriaya or Hard Mode General Vezax where the off-tank may spend a significant fraction of the encounter DPSing in their tank gear. 54,528 HP ( far more than any other tank spec).When fully raid buffed with consumables, a bear wearing the above set will achieve the following tank metrics: The first gear set shown just below is a balanced configuration that is appropriate for tanking the large majority of bosses in Ulduar: The highest item level that is attainable from Phase 2 raid drops is 252 (from 25-man Hard Mode bosses in Ulduar), and unsurprisingly, the embedded BiS setups below use a 252 item level piece in nearly every slot where one is available. This means that you can continue to use item level as an excellent proxy for tanking value when evaluating potential upgrades for your bear in Phase 2. Just as in Phase 1, item level remains the single most impactful attribute on any piece of tanking gear in Phase 2, as it directly determines the total allocation of useful survivability and Threat stats on each item. This guide will list the recommended gear for your class and role, containing gear sourced from raids, dungeons, PvP, professions, Bind on Equip drops, and reputations.īest in Slot Gear for Feral Druid Tank Phase 2 Gear in this guide is primarily obtained from Ulduar, Naxxramas, Obsidian Sanctum, and Eye of Eternity. Welcome to Wowhead's Phase 2 Best in Slot Gear list for Feral Druid Tank in Wrath of the Lich King Classic.
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