Feral Tank Kara -> Gruul's ?sFollow

The only raid buff that scales with your stamina is Kings. Currently, Kings grants me in the neighborhood of 1200-1300 extra HP in bear form. I've noticed that a stacked MT party can push a druid's HP through the roof, but that's almost secondary to the argument.

Badge gear and S2+ arena gear are not necessary. Not for T4 content, nor through to T6 content. They're nice things to have, don't get me wrong, but when guild's were downing pre-nerf raid bosses for the first time, 2.3/2.4 badge gear simply didn't exist. S2 gear didn't exist when guilds were downing Prince/Gruul/Magtheridon for the first time. Guilds were downing these bosses without the benefit of that gear, so when I'm looking at my current gear and the stats it grants me and then looking at what's left and where I'm going, I don't buy into the notion that you have to be full uber to contribute to the next level of content. I don't argue (much) with guildies who tell me I need to have tens of thousands of honor + hundreds of badges worth of gear to contribute to T5 content. When I'm not raiding, I'm doing dailies or running heroics for badges. I'm certainly not the guy who spends all of his non-raid time spamming trade or raiding x-roads and then wondering why nobody wants me in the raid group.

I put a substantial amount of time into upgrading my gear. I'm waiting until I upgrade my chest piece to take a stab at heroic MagT for the tanking trinket from the third boss, but again...that's a piece that didn't exist in the game until recently.

In terms of epic feral druid tanking leather, there's T4 hands and head, belt from heroic Ramparts, and crafted boots (Boots of Natural Grace). Probably one or two "first tier" badge upgrades. Anything else that players are looking upon as a "necessity" for T4 25-man content really isn't a necessity, it's a luxury. Thus my response when people are looking at advanced badge/arena options as prerequisites to content that people had on farm long before that gear even existed.