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At your level, you should have a specific talent in the Feral tree:

Feral Instinct 3 / 3 points invested.

Basically that increases your stealth level in cat form (only useful in tanking when you want to scout out an area to best arrange pulls) and increases your threat by 15%. Dire bear increases your threat by 1.3 x base value, or 30%. This basically gives you 45% more threat than a normal, non-modified attack.

Now, on to the abilities. At level 38, you should have Maul, Swipe, Challenging Roar, Growl, Feral Charge, Demoralizing Roar, Enrage, and Feral Faerie Fire.

Right before you pull, pop Enrage. Then hit the focus mob with Feral Faerie Fire. This should give you enough rage to lay down a Swipe as soon as the mobs get in your face. Next, Demoralizing Roar. This gets you some AOE threat and debuffs the mobs so you don't take too much damage. Then keep mauling / swiping the mobs. If a mob splits off you, feral charge it, growl -> maul, and switch back to the focus target.

Make sure dps knows to attack the focus target. Make sure hunters have growl on their pets off. And realize that retribution paladins WILL pull aggro from time to time. It is because their damage is very spiky and they have no threat wipes. Same with Enhancement shamans and warriors.

Once you get higher in level, you will get Mangle and Lacerate. These moves will tremendously help with threat generation.

You can also cast Regrowth and Rejuvenation before the pull. Every tick of these heal-over-time spells will generate AOE healing aggro. Or for a one or two pull, you can do something fun like mark the first kill with skull, second with x. Blast the x with a Starfire and then hit the skull with a Moonfire, then switch to bear form. If it's a grouped up pull of like 5 mobs, I will often pull them with Hurricane, switch to Bear form and pop enrage.

Just experiment. You are a druid, you have a ton of tools at your command. Use them. If it's an Outdoor instance like Zul'Farrak or Old Hillsbrad Foothills, don't be afraid to root melees or something like that.

For example, one fun thing I like to do in instances like Sethekk Halls or Slave Pens is to Hibernate mobs. You see, you'll get a 5 pull of mobs. 2 undeads, 2 humanoids, and 1 beast. I'll mark a sap / sheep / trap, mark the beast for hibernate, and then pull them by hibernating the beast.

if you can avoide it dont let others pull for you. easier to start with threat than pull it off. i find hunters will use auto shot so by time mob gets to you they already have some threat. one reason i like my pally for tanking no cc needed. normaly when i get rogues they sap and then start meleeing, cause rogue alts of lvl 70's know whats best cause they have a lvl 70.

Yea, I'm starting to realize that I need to pull.
I leveled my main with a friend on WoW, his guild's a lot bigger than mine and they run raids all the time, and he likes to sheep pull a lot (his main is a shaman and amazing healer, alt is a holy priest ) when we play our alts together.
He does a great job leading, but we do sheep pulls a lot, or MC pulls.

I started trying out the hibernate pull, as well as faerie fire.
I also started checking places out on my main so I can direct people around better, and know the instance better so that seems to be helping.

I think its so different from standing back and casting, and it's really exciting, I'm loving it =]

Keep Thorns on yourself. It's extra reflective damage. I seem to remember it having an inordinately large threat coefficient; plus it's AoE threat you don't have to think about in the middle of a fight.

Yell at the hunter until he turns Growl off. It you keep seeing the red lines above the mob's head, yell at the hunter some more.

Until hunters get Misdirection, there's not much point in having a hunter pull (and no point at all in anyone else pulling short of a Mind Control pull). Pull yourself and you'll be much happier with the results.

Yep, before BC, it was the hunters job to pull in raids.

The raid would stay well back while the hunter pulled the mob from max range and ran back to the group. Once they got there, the tank would pick up the mob and the hunter feigns death.

If a 2nd pack got pulled by mistake (easy done in places like MC) then the hunter can just feign, wait 30 sec and try again, instead of wiping the whole raid.


These days it seems much easier to pull without grabbing adds so it is less of an issue. I just know that, as a tank, if the mage pulls and I have to pick up more than one mob (or I miss with my first attack) then the mage is in trouble and will ususally blame me. Far easier for me to pull as soon as he starts casting so all the mobs are on me.