by Allison Robert

All right, folks — time to gear your tanks! As with our previous series on gearing a restoration druid at level 85, we’ll be going slot by slot to show you the best available options and where you can get them. I’ve listed recommend enchants previously in Feral Druid Tanking 101, but I’ve listed them here as well for convenience.

I received some criticism over the restoration gear posts that they were a bit too thorough, and it was (I think) a correct assessment. I’d been aiming for an Emmerald-like opus, but it wound up being an unwieldy mess in blog format. Here, we’ll generally avoid gear below ilevel 333. Why? Because you don’t want it. I’m sure it’s very nice and it has a great personality, but trust me, I’ve been down that road. It is the way of pain. I’ve listed the normal versions of some heroic drops here as a courtesy to anyone who’s still leveling up, but items are otherwise ranked according to the desirability of their heroic versions.

This week, we’ll do the helm through ring slots. Weapons, trinkets, and relics require a bit more discussion, so we’ll tackle those next time.

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by Hiddin @mmowned

My friend was doing trash earlier and figured out that if you kill up to the phase-twisters CC one, kill the rest. Run out and run back in the same group of phase-twisters will be there. So this is more chance at epics with less effort.

1. Clear up until that last 2 groups of phase-twisters
2. CC(sap/sheep) one pull and kill the rest
3. Walk out, walk in(dont reset same group will be there spawned)
4. Rinse and repeat

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Introduce Flint Oremantle to Earthcaller Yevaa at the Temple of Earth.

Description

He still looks a little loopy to me. His head must still be ringing.

Best get him inside the temple and see what the Earthcaller wants to do with him.

I think I’m going to stay out here a little while longer and “observe” these rock flayers.

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Grant the Stonefather’s Boon to 12 Earthen Defenders.

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With the Stonefather taken prisoner, our forces are demoralized. Normally any one of mine could take five times his number of stone troggs. But now….

I want you to head out into the field surrounding the town. Plant Stonefather Oremantle’s banner near my defenders. Grant them his boon and remind them of that for which they fight.

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Speak to Terrath the Steady at the Pale Roost.

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Nearby to the north, you will find Terrath the Steady. He has taken upon the task of pulling the stone dragons back into the fold. We find ourselves repeating this trial every few hundred years… the stone dragons are fickle, and bend only to strength.

Terrath is balanced and reasonable, but his goals may not be easily accomplished. Go to him. Appeal to the more balanced side of the Stonemother.

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Obtain the Burning Heart.

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Alright, we need something that’s going to make the compound go, “Boom”!

I’m all out of gun powder, but I think I know what we can use instead… the heart of my fire elemental!

Here, take my fire totem east to the Blood Trail. Just flip the switch on it near any of the lava pools over there and Magmatooth should be summoned. Bring back his heart and we’ll be in business.

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Jump on Stormbeak and watch Mor’norokk’s interrogation.

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Hop on, <name>. Let’s see what Mr. Ogreface has to say for himself.

Don’t be shy, Stormbeak’s only ever dropped a passenger a couple of times before.

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by Tyler Caraway

You might think that the Old Gods and the demons would get along. After all, both really just seem to want to kill everything on the planet. Apparently, you’d be thinking wrong. Strange, I know, but I guess there can be more than one reason to destroy a world, and these two butt heads over who should get to do it. Personally, I’m all for killing both — well, killing those who refuse to become my slaves, that is.

Due to that whole “must destroy the world” shtick, we find now find ourselves face to face with yet another dungeon full of monstrosities to wipe clear. With as many of these cults and beasties as there seem to be, you’d think the races of Azeroth would just stop caring by now. This time, the diabolical threat is Cho’gall, the leader of the Twilight’s Hammer, which has come a long way since its original incarnation as a clan of orcs. So far I know, it goes kind of like this: Old Gods want to destroy Azeroth, Deathwing works for the Old Gods, Cho’gall works for Deathwing; ergo, we must kill Cho’gall … or something like that. It seems a little hokey in my book, but anything with that many eyes around its body cannot be cool and probably needs to die, anyway.

So let’s get to killin’!

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by Chase Hasbrouck

So you’ve read my previous column covering the basics of feral DPS in Cataclysm, and you’d like to give it a try at endgame. Awesome! Let’s get you equipped for the task at hand with the gear you’ll need to begin raiding.

Most of the items I’m listing are item level 346 and typically come from Cataclysm heroic 5-man instances. You’ll have to acquire a mostly full set of ilvl 333 gear to be eligible to enter heroics (via the dungeon finder); questing through Twilight Highlands should get you most of the way there, but I’ll include a representative ilevel 333/325 item for each slot to help fill out any holes.

Also, since our best stats (by far) are weapon DPS and agility, ilvl 352 honor PvP gear is a perfectly acceptable substitute until you get the heroic drop you’re looking for. Until the patch, four pieces of PvP gear are actually more powerful than equivalent PvE gear, due to the overly strong four-piece set bonus. After the patch, PvP gear will be weaker, but not by much.

Finally, our secondary stats will be very close in value to each other, so don’t worry too much about which ilvl 346 item you get. Generally, though, mastery > crit/haste > hit/expertise, for reforging purposes.

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