Feral Druid Bear tank build (0/31/20)

How to play it

• Dire Bear Form with 115% threat: Lacerate to 5 stacks, Primal Bite on cooldown, Swipe with Feral Instinct on groups, Maul to dump Rage.
• Natural Reaction gives 5% dodge and 5 Rage per dodge; Blood Frenzy gives Rage on crits. Heart of the Wild adds Stamina in Bear Form.
• Feral Charge interrupts casters and pulls you to them.

Talents taken

Feral Combat (31)

• Ferocity 5/5: Reduces the cost of your Maul, Primal Bite, Swipe, Claw, and Rake abilities by 5 Rage or Energy.
• Furor 2/5: Gives you a 40% chance to gain 10 Rage when shapeshifting into Bear Form or Dire Bear Form. Shapeshifting into Cat Form restores 40% of the Energy you had when last in Cat Form, plus 4 Energy per second spent outside Bear Form or Dire Bear Form, up to 40 Energy.
• Feral Instinct 3/3: Increases damage done by your Swipe ability by 30% and reduces the chance enemies have to detect you while Prowling as if you were 3 levels higher.
• Thick Hide 3/3: While in Bear Form, Cat Form, Dire Bear Form, or Moonkin Form, you gain 3 additional base Armor per level and another 2.00 base Armor for each point of defense skill beyond five times your level. This amount can be further increased by multipliers from those forms.
• Shredding Attacks 3/3: Reduces the Energy cost of your Shred ability by 18 and reduces the Rage cost of your Lacerate ability by 3.
• Savage Fury 2/2: Increases the damage caused by your Claw, Rake, Shred, Maul, and Swipe abilities by 10%.
• Feral Charge 1/1: Charge an enemy, immobilizing them and interrupting any spell they are casting for 4 sec. Feral Charge (Cat): 8-25 yd range, Instant, 30 sec cooldown, Requires Cat Form. Leap behind an enemy.
• Sharpened Claws 2/2: Increases your critical strike chance while in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, or Cat Form by 6%.
• Lacerate 1/1: Lacerates the enemy target, making them bleed for 20 damage over 15 sec plus 10% weapon damage per existing application of Lacerate on the target. Causes a high amount of threat. This effect stacks up to 5 times on the same target.
• Blood Frenzy 2/2: Gives you a 100% chance to gain an additional 5 Rage any time you get a critical strike while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form. In addition, your non-periodic critical strikes from Cat Form abilities that generate Combo Points have a 100% chance to add an additional Combo Point.
• Leader of the Pack 1/1: While in Cat Form, Bear Form, or Dire Bear Form, the Leader of the Pack increases the Critical Strike chance of all party or raid members within 45 yards by 3%.
• Natural Reaction 5/5: Increases your dodge chance by 5%, and gives you a 100% chance to gain 5 Rage each time you dodge.
• Primal Bite 1/1: Bite the target, dealing 100% normal damage plus 42 and generating a high amount of threat.

Restoration (20)

• Heart of the Wild 5/5: Increases your Intellect by 10%. In addition, while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 20% and while in Cat Form your Strength is increased by 10%.
• Naturalist 5/5: Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch and Wild Growth spells by 0.5 sec and increases all damage you deal by 10%.
• Natural Shapeshifter 3/3: Reduces the mana cost of all shapeshifting by 30%.
• Gift of Nature 5/5: Increases the effect of all your healing spells by 10%.
• Tranquil Spirit 2/5: Reduces the mana cost of your Healing Touch and Tranquility spells by 4%.

Point order by level

First point at level 10 (set the Talented perk in the calculator if you start earlier).