Tanking and Crit %Follow

So anyway, I finally got around to getting dual-spec and started working on a tanking set. Most of the gearing seems to be more or less straight forward. I'm stacking stamina until I feel comfortable with my HP pool, then adding agility. However I'm left with one kinda nagging question; what do I do about crit. I'm curious if it's ever really worth spending any time itemizing for on gear, or is it a stat that is just simply 'nice to have' when it appears on other gear you like.

My limited understanding of bears at this point seems to give me 2 options:

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Improve threat directly: more crit ---> More Savage Defense & Improved Leader of the Pack procs ---> more survivability

verses something like

Improve survival directly: More dodge ---> More Natural Reaction procs ---> more Mauling ---> more threat
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Is one of these preferred once you are happy with your HP/armor? Or am I missing something all together more important here?

For reference I'm sitting at 30k HP, 62% damage reduction through armor, 31% dodge and 27% critical at the moment with some gear still left to be enchanted/upgraded/gemmed etc. Any advice from you experienced bears out there would be much appreciated!

I logged out with my Fishing pole...:D

Ya I still have a ways to go, got the drop from Heigen for my weapon though (yay!), still a work in progress.

1 BoJ away from the idol, hopefully I'll get it later in the week. Next couple nights are raid nights, so I've had to put my plans on hold for a bit as I'm needed back in tree form.



Ya I've been really lazy about this since they changed fishing. I mean now I can fish anywhere, no matter the skill, so I've been less motivated to get +fishing stuffs.