Tanking skill rotationFollow

Hello, I'm currently level 51 specced feral for leveling purposes and while I would prefer an off-healing/dps role in an instance group I realize that I'm a better tank than most other noobs on their way to 70 (not trying to be conceited but I've only had one instance run so far where we had a higher level feral druid tanking who was on a whole other plateau in terms of tanking skill). Due to this even when I get invited as an off-tank I quickly take over as main tank simply because the warriors I've grouped with weren't getting the job done.

My question is now that I have mangle how important is it for generating threat? I realize once I get lacerate from what I've read on forums that it will become one of my more important skills, but until then what should I do? I normally enrage -> feral charge -> sometimes roar -> and swipe the hell out of 3-4 mobs at once. I feral charge -> taunt when I lose aggro. Normally I can keep 3-4 mobs pretty easily though and with Improved leader of the pack and my ridiculous amount of armor health isn't much of an issue and if the healer goes OOM enrage -> frenzied regeneration will keep me up for a few extra seconds. But back to the question is there a better skill rotation and is mangle worth using as a bear?

Mangle should be used pretty much every time it's up, it's free damage.



I disagree, Enrage lowers your armor by 16% in Dire Bear form, thus IMO it's not really worth the extra 20 rage when you're tanking multiple mobs, assuming they are physical attackers.

It'd probably be better to just use Frenzied Regeneration alone, but don't quote me on it.

Enrage should be used before a fight, not during. That way you have some rage to start off with and you have less issues holding threat at the beginning. The best trick is to use it between pulls to conserve rage for the next fight. If your group isn't taking long breaks between pulls you can usually keep a fair chunk of rage and build threat much quicker.

Bt yes, use mangle whenever it's not on cooldown. It's a huge amount of threat since it has its own innate threat multiplier, making it worth roughly 3 mauls in terms of threat generated.

no idea what you just said.

however faerifire can be used to pull mobs from range. .. oh you mean farie fire a level 1 wandering mob like there are in most instances. (excluding. tempest keep, parts of underbog and a few other places.)