Quote Originally Posted by genocyde View Post

2) didn't see anyone else mention this but in your first post you mention resilience + heroics. Resilience does not function in PvE... It does nothing at all in PvE.
Resilience gives reduction in crit chance, which helps attain uncrittable status for your pets. Normal tank classes achieve this by hitting the defense cap, as it is a much more efficient usage of item points than using resilience. Thankfully since 3.3, hunters have the option of at least using resilience

I found some good discussion from a hunter that tanks many pugs from this blog: http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/...anking-in-3-3/

Quote from his post:
And with the 100% resilience transfer to pets now, we only need 132 resilience to d-cap our pets (including the 4% crit reduction from their spec). Any tank set worth its salt should probably include some PvP gear anyway, so this should be a breeze.