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You need 415 defense rating to be critproof against level 73 mobs/bosses if you have maxed Survival of the Fittest talent (which you should) and 0 resilience. Resilience contributes toward crit-proofness, so if you have some you can get away with less than 415 defense. To determine whether you have reached the crit cap through Defense and Resilience, copy and pasted the following text into chat:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(2.6-(GetCombatRatingBonus(CR_DEFENSE_SKILL)*.04+GetCombatRatingBonus(CR_CRIT_TAKEN_MELEE)),1,0.5,0)


Easy peasy...gearing a bear tank for entry-level heroics/kara is straightforward, as you can fill (virtually?) every slot with quest rewards, craftables and BoEs you can get on the AH, and PvP shoulders. The cornerstone is all three pieces of the Heavy Clefthoof set and Braxxis Staff of Slumber. Beyond that, you'll need to read a beary famous post called "How to gear your Bear before raiding" at a site called Emmerald. Bookmark that site now, because it also contains a gear ranking list that is ideal for building your own personal "to do list" once you've gotten the gear recommended in that post.


Health is good to have, because without it you are dead. A good goal is to get to 14,000 health (that's self-buffed with MotW, no consumables or other buffs) and then you can start start gearing/gemming for agility.

Edited, Jul 15th 2008 10:46pm by JeeBar

I'm no feral druid by any means, balance and resto are my forte. But from what I've heard isn't resilience kind of pointless in pve?

And don't you need like 490 defense to be crit proof and uncrushable?

This is what I've gathered from all the tank talk I hear over vent.

that is pally and warriors. they need 490 deff for uncritable. and for uncrushable they need 102.4% avoidance. that is 5%base miss on mob dodge parry block and the miss when you mouse over deff. that 102.4 is when shield block or holy shield is up.



i thought resil gave more point for point deff just gave some to dodge so was considered better. not sure on that though.

also S2 helm with SSO head enchant is a nice 2+% to decreaseing crits and you only need. 2.6 so not a bad investment. can get the helm in one day of farming av's. cleft set will make up the rest for uncritable.