07-23-2006, 08:23 AM
Missed the last part of your question:)
Shifting to Innervate or Battle res while tanking a raid mob is pretty much a no-no. It can be done by having another tank taunt the mob off you first (do get out of any melee AE or cleave arc etc before shifting though!).
Druid single target threat is best built with Maul (every swing), Swipe (when you have rage left after Maul) and Faerie Fire (when you don't have rage left and the cooldown is up). Fully talented Maul has simply amazing rage to threat efficiency. Make sure to point any AE away from the raid.
There are fights where Druids are preferable to equivalently geared Warrior tanks, such as every five man instance (I'm not entirely joking - Warrior tanking in a PUG can be a real PITA). Druid tanks are good on anything that has knockback, polymorph or physical spike damage and not so good against things that fear, have high but steady physical damage or mostly magical damage.
Shifting to Innervate or Battle res while tanking a raid mob is pretty much a no-no. It can be done by having another tank taunt the mob off you first (do get out of any melee AE or cleave arc etc before shifting though!).
Druid single target threat is best built with Maul (every swing), Swipe (when you have rage left after Maul) and Faerie Fire (when you don't have rage left and the cooldown is up). Fully talented Maul has simply amazing rage to threat efficiency. Make sure to point any AE away from the raid.
There are fights where Druids are preferable to equivalently geared Warrior tanks, such as every five man instance (I'm not entirely joking - Warrior tanking in a PUG can be a real PITA). Druid tanks are good on anything that has knockback, polymorph or physical spike damage and not so good against things that fear, have high but steady physical damage or mostly magical damage.