Druid issue with Shammy Chain Lightning

[genocyde]

My bear uses maul in his castsequence (lacerate, swipe, maul, swipe) and he never ever has rage issues. Especially with the rage generation from incoming damage. I suspect the problem with rage on ubergeared bears is the same as ubergeared warriors in lowbie instances: not enough incoming damage to generate rage so you only get it from hits, thus the "spam cleave/swipe" advice.

I could be wrong and my bear is only sitting at about 3200 gearscore.

Actually my rage generation was fine as I overgeared everything thanks to the talent natural reaction (gain rage on dodge) and hitting way harder + more crits for more rage procs. Plus once you overgear to a certain extent you can just pull more mobs

I think most peoples problem with aoe threat gen on bears is that everyone macros maul to swipe. You definately don't "need" maul to aoe tank and it can cause rage problems early on in a fight depending on how you geared. I made a habit of keeping maul off of my swipe key. You can always tap another key if for some reason your capped on rage and decide to add maul in for extra damage. Also should go without saying but make sure you keep thorns up, every little bit helps.

[crowdx]

Well as an update, I ran a ton of heroics using the LFG tool solo and I am now sitting at 4200gs. I have not run with my shammys yet but I am hoping that aggro will not be an issue. I am also considering adding a second button so that I can spam swipe for a couple of seconds before opening up with my dps toons.
Overall in the random heroics there were few times I lost aggro except where people nuked a mob that I was not on.
I also completed my first Trial of the Crusader which I have never done on any of my other toons.
I got the staff out of VH, which after I got the drop, dropped 3 times in a row once I had it lol.
Overall though, it seems that there is not a huge amount of love for feral druids with few drops which are upgrades for us?
All in all it was a decent weekend

[crowdx]

So I got the epic achievement on my druid tank last night, I dropped in the battered hilt mace and now he is over 5k gs. Gotta say the LFG tool made his gear MUCH easier than the previous teams tank. I am now considering doing the same with my priest but think with the tank fully geared the priest duties in my group should be pretty easy.
The long road now is with gearing my shammies , get them from 2.5k gs lol