Feral Tank and 4 rets

[Shodokan]

Why not just drop the feral all together and just tank with one of your rets as prot? As a high geared ret you can get a full set of pve prot gear in under 20 hours played.

[Svpernova09]

Why not just drop the feral all together and just tank with one of your rets as prot? As a high geared ret you can get a full set of pve prot gear in under 20 hours played.

You can do just about anything in 20 hours if the drop rates are on your side. Sweeping general statements are not needed. If you don't have anything of value other than "use a ret as prot" why bother posting? Obviously ferals bring something to the group. ESPECIALLY MELEE GROUPS. Leader of the Pack = 5% crit (and most bears spec impLotP for the 4% total health heal) PLUS infected wounds (50% movement speed reduction + 20% attack speed reduction) AND Demoralizing Roar (Enemy AP reduction). All those jive REALLY well with melee teams. Not to mention in combat rez, Imp Gift of the Wild, and exceptional tanking ability in mediocre gear.

[Ridere]

I can't speak for experience with a bear tank and four melees, but I do have some experience with a bear tank and am getting more every day.

With four rets, your dps will be right on top of the bear. This is good, because the DPS will always be within swipe range. So even if one of your rets gets aggro, you don't need to run back to some line of DPS to pick up the add, or growl, or whatnot. You can just keep up the swipes.

As a bear and four shamans, that's my biggest weakness as a tank. Adds that I don't swipe in time and start picking on my healer, or something.

I say give it a shot. It's not something we've seen around here, and it's always fun to try and out tanks. I like bears.