Druid threat

[Watto44]

Pulling multiple mobs:
Regrowth, rejuvenation, barkskin, hurricane, bearform.
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Hehe, I hadn't thought of using hurricane for pulling. Definately a nice idea (assuming that CC is happening after the pull rather than before). For multiple mobs I've been using moofire, rejuv, demo roar and swipe, which makes it fairly easy to loose mobs early in the fight. (I'm having flashbacks to the death knight zerg in dead Strat. *shudder*)

Another question though. When you use regrowth and rejuv before the pull, do the HoT generate threat? I'm guessing not (and hoping, since I occasionally do the same thing when I'm healing) and that you're using them as a kind of druidic PW:S. Wouldn't it be worth while mixing up the order a bit, maybe going regrowth, wrath/moofire, and then rejuv? You should still have time to get into bear form and would eek out a little more threat from the rejuvination. (I know it's not much, but when I've been tanking, every little bit has been pretty important.)

Anyway, here's my strategy - such as it is, and feel free to replace any part of it with "mash the keyboard and hope something happens". NOTE: Bear (hawhaw) in mind that I have only tanked once since 1.8 came out, so there might be some overkill in terms of generating threat. I really don't have enough of a handle on how much extra threat is generated by Feral Instinct at the moment. :)

Single Target: Depends on how much room I have to move. If I have lots of room, get the party to move way back. Open with starfire, moofire and start running away (which usually distresses my party enormously :D ). While I'm running hit rejuv, barkskin and bear form. Once I'm in it's demo roar, maul whenever I can and faerie fire whenever it's up.

If I don't have room to move or the mob is a caster, I typically barkskin, moofire, rejuv and then hit bear form. I find any other combination gets me hit when I'm not in bear form, which is a bad thing. But generally speaking, I don't have trouble holding aggro on single targets - assuming the group gives me enough time to get a decent amount of hate.

Multiple targets: Again, it's dependant on how much room I have. If there is space, I open with starfire on one mob, moofire on another, barkskin and rejuv before hitting bear form. If it's a three pull, hit the mob who hasn't been tagged with maul, then demo roar. I try and cycle through the targets, hitting each with a maul and faerie fire (which is a very helpful way to tell if you've already "tagged" a mob early in the fight) as well as hitting swipe whenever it's not on cooldown. If the pull has more than 3 mobs, hit demo roar asap and then swipe before cycling through the targets and doing the maul thing.

I will definately have to try pulling with hurricane though. It will hopefully make the start of the fight more controllable.

Pulling off your party: Feral charge if they are your healer/ranged DPS (which they usually are :P). Then taunt. I hit enrage if I feel I'm going to need the extra juice to really grab the mob. By the time I've hit faerie fire and maul, taunt will probably have worn off, so I can assess the situation.

If the mob is sticking with me, I maul another time or two. If it's still following the squishy, I hit bash and enrage if I haven't used it already. Use that rage to maul as much as you can, FF and taunt whenever they're not on cooldown until you're comfortable you've got the mob back.

This is another area when I struggle. I feel I've got the correct sequence to pull aggro off the squishies, but I almost always have to use bash which leaves me in a sticky situation if someone pulls off me more than once a minute. If bash is still on cooldown and someone pulls off me, keyboard mashing is practically guaranteed to ensue. :blush: I feel I'm too dependent on maul critting when I'm trying to pull off people.