Gearing up a Bear Tank for Hallow's Eve

Hey All,

I've been trying to mount farm for Brewfest for the past few days, and after my initial night of doing it as my solo shamans, I opened to bring a tank and healer in to help me cycle in my 10 level 80s (5 shamans and 5 warlocks). 2 mounts have dropped so far in 3 days of farming, both of which, of course, went to the two who were helping me.

While I'm generally a selfless person, and I was happy to see them get their achievements and neat mounts, I'm a tiny bit annoyed that all of my 30+ summons for this event so far have benefited other people. So I'm going to continue doing it through the rest of the event and hope I get a kodo, but I'm already planning ahead for Hallow's Eve, hence my post.

My druid team is level 70. I feel pretty confident I can get them up to 80 with my work schedule and two Siberian Husky puppies (Disgustingly cute, I might add), but I'm a bit worried about gearing up two of them for tanking purposes.

Give your experiences last year with the headless horsemen, and this year with brewfest, do you think it realistic of me to be able to gear up two Bear tanks purely from AH buys/craftables alone? 15 summon attempts a day on the horsemen would be pretty sexy, I'm just wondering if it's doable.

I don't see myself having enough time to both AH gear up the two druids and then run the tanks through heroics to further gear them up.

I was able to down Coren Direbrew with just my Shaman team, though I had 2 die, and I blew earth elemental cooldowns, so it looks like this holiday bosses are probably weaker than Heroic bosses, but I'm still just curious.

I know very little about end game bear tanking gear. And Bear tanking in general, for that matter. I did some when they were lower level, running deadmines and such.

Just curious if anyone had any suggestions, or input. And sorry for my rambling of a post :p

Last years Headless horseman wasnt tough. This years Brewfest boss is a joke. I can only assume headless will be as easy.

Only thing you will need for your bear tanks by then is to probably be 80 and get the right spec with some decent avoidance gear. maybe a couple of pvp items if you can. I hear the resilliance helps them.

Like I said it wont take much to gear for Headless Horseman though.

Last year with 5 shaman I found both bosses to be pretty easy. This year I brought a tank into the mix and coren is pretty easy. I recently got my paladin to level 80 and geared her up pretty quickly. If you have enough gold then you should be able to gear out the tanks pretty fast.

A few questions.

Why do you need 2 bear tanks? Wouldn't one tank be enough for both teams?

As far as tanking I think you can get it down to a one macro.

Well, if the AV hotfix is enough to get queues back in order, I'm sure I can maybe squeeze out a piece, or two, from the honor I get from doing 71-80. I'll have to try to make sure I get into some wintergrasps, too, or something. But it may not be something that I can guarantee, or rely on, in such a short amount of time.

I'll definitely look into the other stuff, though.

How different are these bosses from year to year? I had never done the seasonal bosses on my mains, apart from Ahune.

I may not need two. The main reason why I mention it is because if I only had one Bear tank, then I'd have a hard time getting the Warlock and Shaman that are on the same account as the Bear tank in there to get their daily summons as well.

But in the grand scheme of things, we'd be talking about 13 summons instead of 15, so maybe it doesn't matter. But if I can gear it up from purely an AH standpoint, I would like to do two for when I ultimately want to run heroics, or something.