How did you gear up for heroics??

[thedreameater]

I just wiped 6 times on the trash of heroic Gundrak. The druid I'm using (Arborviate in the guild) dies mega fast, even with spamming HW with ES on him. He loses aggro all the time. This is supposed to be the easy heroic????

Please, seriously, I want to know what people did to get gear to run heroics? Normal mode Gundrak was a snore fest.

My set up is

button 1 - swipe
button 2 - drood macro + LB
button 3 - HW (from my resto shammy)
button 4 - LHW
button 5 - riptide
button 6 - ES

I have FF and Demo Roar as clicks which I open with. I basically spam 1, 2, and 3.

1 - What heroic did you run first?
2 - How did you get the gear to run that heroic?

I'm so damn mad right now.

Thanks in advance.

[Saoul]

Perhaps you could run with a defense capped tank, as that made almost all the heroics easy for my group. Unfortunately i've never ran with a druid tank so cant assist with a tanking macro for your bear. Give it a whirl...

[thedreameater]

Perhaps you could run with a defense capped tank, as that made almost all the heroics easy for my group. Unfortunately i've never ran with a druid tank so cant assist with a tanking macro for your bear. Give it a whirl...

It was my tank. I ran with a friend who was geared (and I didn't control :P). Cleared Gundrak heroic with only 2 wipes on the 2nd boss - cause I clumped the shaman up like a noob two times.

UGH. Guess that means I am gonna have to run my drood through stuff till he gets gear. Oh well, at least I know these 4 can do it.

[shaeman]

With the right talents spent feral tank druids are uncrittable at 80. Was your druid bear spec?
How much hp does the tank have?
Did you use survival instincts, barkskin and frenzied regen to help out?
Did you put earthshield on the tank and keep refreshing it?

[Bigfish]

The first heroic I ended up clearing was UP, but that was on my caster group who is somewhat better geared than my melee group, and I'd farmed 2 wings of naxx 10-boxxing. UP pinnacle sucks, btw. I'd suggest starting off with Utgarde Keep.

As far as suggestions on gearing up goes, you should really be looking at filling as many slots as you can with blue/purple ilvl 187-200 , Most slots, this can be achieved via the AH, although it can get a bit pricey.

Also, keep in mind, you really have to break in to Heroics before farming them starts coming naturally. And the repair bills are going to suck for a while. I'd say stick with UK and Draktharon, as they are both easy instances on heroic (except Novos in Drak.), they just don't have the speed and number of badges of Gundrak.

[Stealthy]

I just wiped 6 times on the trash of heroic Gundrak. The druid I'm using (Arborviate in the guild) dies mega fast, even with spamming HW with ES on him. He loses aggro all the time. This is supposed to be the easy heroic????

Please, seriously, I want to know what people did to get gear to run heroics? Normal mode Gundrak was a snore fest.

My set up is

button 1 - swipe
button 2 - drood macro + LB
button 3 - HW (from my resto shammy)
button 4 - LHW
button 5 - riptide
button 6 - ES

I have FF and Demo Roar as clicks which I open with. I basically spam 1, 2, and 3.

1 - What heroic did you run first?
2 - How did you get the gear to run that heroic?

I'm so damn mad right now.

Thanks in advance.

Can you link the armory for your team members? You shouldnt be having so many problems with a feral tank if reasonably geared (blues +craftable epics) and is spec'd right...

Cheers,
S.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...a&n=dondeltoro

That's the druid tank I ran heroics with on my druids. The other druid Don's in Forseti Hel are my casters. I have to do some decent healing with 'em but it isn't that bad. The snake pulls by sladran are different depending on who you have in your group. For shammy groups, ignore the poison spitters as cleansing totem nerfs them into stupidity. The constrictors put a bleed on the tank that hurts bad if they gang up, though. Conversely, if you have a group that can't purge poison, I'd kill the spitters first.

Sladran was stupid easy on my shammy group even when starting out with most of the crappy blue PVP set plus the revenant's 2 pieces. He's still difficult on my druid team as all the snake adds are so hard to control.

Honestly, I think DtK is easier than Gundrak due to the general lack of poison and constant AoE. If you can get past the DPS gear check of the first boss, the rest is a matter of having enough mana. Novos is stupidly easy once you start standing on the wall next to him. Hardly any adds will come at you there. Then just move out of blizzard and AoE heal once and continue DPS.

[Ridere]

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...a&n=dondeltoro

A bit of a necro, but thanks, Ugh. I took a look at your bear. I'm going to be gearing up some of my druids for tanking purposes here soon. Looks like it's lots of Stamina and Agility. I won't be able to get all of the gear that you have just yet, but are there any other stats I should worry about?

I know we don't need Defense, if talented correctly, but hit, crit, penetration, etc... Any sort of priority for these stats? I'm quite a noob when it comes to tanking.

[wowphreak]

A bit of a necro, but thanks, Ugh. I took a look at your bear. I'm going to be gearing up some of my druids for tanking purposes here soon. Looks like it's lots of Stamina and Agility. I won't be able to get all of the gear that you have just yet, but are there any other stats I should worry about?

I know we don't need Defense, if talented correctly, but hit, crit, penetration, etc... Any sort of priority for these stats? I'm quite a noob when it comes to tanking.

I was curious about this as well because I started a new group and gonna use bear for tank :P
looks like the stats yeh want are
Stamina, Hit(till 263), Agility, Dodge, Expertise, Strength.
in that order

found that info http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f14/5...r-tanking.html

[Ridere]

I was curious about this as well because I started a new group and gonna use bear for tank :P
looks like the stats yeh want are
Stamina, Hit(till 263), Agility, Dodge, Expertise, Strength.
in that order

found that info http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f14/5...r-tanking.html

Oh, wow.

Thanks for the link. That'll come in handy.