Aka, 3rd, and last bosses of ML; 2nd boss of priory; 1st and last bosses in flood.
rotate defensives, like Si, bark and rage of the sleeper
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Defensives and self healing
That’s the fun part: You don’t.
More seriously, try to have a cooldown of some sort up at all times you’re taking magic or dot damage.
Survival Instincts, Barkskin, Frenzied Regen, Incarn, Lunar Beam, Rage of the Sleeper…
FR doesn’t feel enough to heal back after a tank burster ngl.
Tank burster is every 20s. But FR is around 30s with haste.
Good thing you get 2 charges then eh? 
As a healer–and I ask this gently because I don’t bear, my guild isn’t running a Guardian this expansion, and I don’t know the answer:
Is this, perhaps, a healer issue instead of a bear tank issue? I love hearing tanks work on damage mitigation and all, but at some point, if we’re down to counting overlaps of FR charges with a tank buster mechanic, I have to ask at what point the healer comes in with Ironbark/Cenarion Ward/etc. to assist you?
Are you really meant to have 100% uptime on everything? What I’m asking is whether this is truly a bear tank deficiency or if it’s a healer deficiency.
Bears by and large are pretty self-sufficient. Not to the degree a DK or DH is, but if we are using defensives properly we rarely have a ton we need to worry about
Stack more Vers. Use your CDs. It isn’t that bad.
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No.
You only need uptime on things that are lethal. There’s a lot of holding off on CD’s and what not until they’re needed. 20 seconds between tank busters means youre just soaking auto attack damage…which is still a lot, but Iron Fur takes a lot off, Earthwarden takes a lot off, Ursocs Fury takes a lot off, TnC procs take a lot off (all talents pending of course).
And of course when you pull large you want to have something running as well to lessen the blows of 100x mobs. But even then, not all packs have tank busters to worry about, so you can usually run a CD on pull and by the time it drops off you’re okay and in the clear.
Externals are great for specific mechanics, but usually for DPS when targeted (Purification from elementals in Priory for example).
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Not every healer has externals…
Yes they do