My guild leader is a feral tank and he rocks at it.
But I think you people have officially run out of things to talk about on these forums … FOR REAL
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You saw a lot more of them early on for sure but they are still out there. We have several in the guild that do it but they have no real reason to run heroics anymore so you won’t find them in there.
i personally have always rolled my druids heals or rdps so im not very knowledgeable on the subject but in saying that when i have healed druids in the past i find they always get hit alot more and harder then most classes. which is why i assumed they could be crit.
why not MT’s since they suck at 5 mans should raids not be their most viable position?
i personally think its more towards the current gear as i have yet to see a feral tank in raids tbh and i have raided every week since launch so just my opinion here but i personally barely ever see a druid tank and when i do its generally someone very knowledgeable to the game. which kinda feeds my mentality here lol
dk and pally tank tho some of them just make me go wow did that really just happen? lol which is why it seems those classes are way easier in comparison.
yeah i dont really tank heroics anymore, think i over did it in tbc.
cat is way more fun and more engaging in wrath
Personally I’d rather heal a Druid than a DK because a bad DK will get rocked with far less room for error.
Also one of our MT’s is a Druid but they excel at OT since they can easily flip back and forth when an OT isn’t needed. Also their huge health pools make them great for eating things like hateful strikes so that’s another reason you will see them as OT’s over MT’s.
They aren’t any worse than any other tank imo and I’ve played every tank and every healer in WotLK at some point in my years.
They make good MTs too; just because they have something that makes them great OTs doesn’t mean it some how invalidates them as MTs.
see here i have had the opposite. while yes i have had more bad dk’s then druids but its hard to compare when you have 20 dk’s to one druid kind of thing just that alone will make dk’s seem worse cause you are exposed to it more so the chances to see a bad dk is a lot more common.
while i agree here is it really that much better? do they not have less armour meaning each hatefull strike hits more then it would say on a dk with higher armour values meaning each hit does more damage? would that not make the hp advantage kinda mute. like a 20k hit to a 40k tank is similar stats wise to a 15 k hit to a 35k hp tank if that makes sense.
I leveled a druid from 70 to 80 as a feral tank. When I hit 80 I immediately regeared to be a moonkin. Maybe feral tank gets better with gear, so I’m maintaining a pre-raid BIS tank set just incase, but moonkin/resto sets are my current focus.
No Druids are built around Armor, Dodge and Health. The fact they can’t parry means they will take more hits but the larger health pool helps smooth that out.
And I’m not just basing this on the current Wrath experience but also my original as well. I’ve tanked on every spec that can, I’ve healed on every spec that can on current content.
The reason you see less of them than other tanks is mainly because of how good the other 3 specs are. All 4 spec of Druid are good so you are going to see them spread out among those 4. Some of those specs are much more fun to play as well.
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I have seen 3-4, So they are out there.
ok this is the part i miss understood this explains my past experiences.
neither (start in og tbc quit in mop) i have played all classes on different expansions i have played all tank classes bar feral druid because of the reason i observed above. in saying this feral druids i found was less and less the further we go into the expansions from my experience.
this to me is the biggest factor on to why i have never used it boomie is op ranged and heals are just fun to me as druid! lets not forget the dance! xD
You seem to know what’s up. Compared to the other 3 tanks, how do druids stack up now, and how will they stack up as the expansion continues?
No, they do not.
This is actually not similar at all. If the 35k hp tank is taking the same hit as the 40k hp tank for 5k less, they are getting hit for 42.8% of their hp rather than 50% of their hp. This means they can take 2 of those hits without dying where the 40k hp tank will die if taking two. The 35k hp tank, while having a lower health pool, has a higher effective health than the 40k hp tank.
I think what they’re trying to get at is the amount of healing required to sustain one tank vs the other for the same hit.
that was the point i was trying to make. meaning you have to prioritise your healing on the 40k tank that cant take the 2 hits who also needs more healing then the 35k tank purely for the extra HP .
I guess I found it confusing when you said it was similar, since healing back 20k hp vs 15k hp isn’t really similar imo. One tank clearly needs less healing.
exactly so in this example feral would be the worse tank cause it puts more strain on group/raid dps have to dps harder before healer goes oom from over healing the tank all goes hand in hand.
All tanks and healers are fine all the way through. Obviously some will be slightly better at certain things but any issues I’ve ever seen were mainly due to player ability rather than class.
It’s like any other spec really, people will push out numbers, charts, and some meta thing, but like most specs players never really play well enough to hit those numbers. Better play will make a bigger difference than the numbers that are suggested.
Play what you enjoy playing and learn to play it and you can handle every ounce of content in WotLK not matter what tank you are.
I haven’t decided which I’m going to go with yet when I finally start gearing a tank, probably Druid or Warrior both of which are supposed to be " not as good ".
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Except your example is wrong because it assumes feral has less armor and is taking much larger hits.
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again based of past experiences they do someone said above they cant parry? meaning they woud get hit more often because of this apposed to a dk warrior or pally who can parry the same basic attacks.
for sure they are to me too. im not saying they can’t do it. not at all they most certainly can but if you was to rate tanks what would feral be? for me feral would be last in my tank choices.
as someone who just levelled a warrior and dk in tanking roles b2b hands down dk beats warrior for tankablity but warriors are just fun in heroics for the 3 charges come raid when you cant charge or dodge spells thats when it got less fun for me and dk shined. maybe something to consider when you make your choice 