Pro and Con Feral Tank in Raiding

[tisrel 0]

hello, Community I was just curious what are the pro and con of a Feral tank? I do know it is not recommended to have one in the raid I was just curious why? Is it because of their threat or their mitigation? I was thinking about playing one has OT if it is viable enough. 

[Lorilay 12]

Pro: higher threat potential (except maybe against Thunderfury)

Con: greater total damage taken (due to lack of parry and shield block)

Pro: higher HP pool and more mitigation per hit that connects due to armor

Con: subject to crushing blows

Con: can't break fear as easily as warriors

Con: Nefarian will turn you into a cat tank (still doable, though)

Pro: immune to charm CC (although this was not the case on most private servers, including Nost)

[ravens 0]

They can tank bosses but a warrior will be better and most guilds will have MTs but feral druids are great because they can OT/dps/heal. 

But it's certainly viable to OT stuff.

 

Pros:

-Lots of armor/hp and good threat

-brings more damage than a prot warrior

-can heal when needed

 

Cons: 

-can't be def capped so it will be crit and be a burden on healer's mana 

-no real cooldowns besides frenzied regen 

 

Nef  tank:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7h2lC-UnwA

[taladril 43]

Lorilay, what parts of charm cc are affecting bears when it shouldn't? The mobs that poly you normally didn't when I tanked them.

[Mot 0]

Cons:

No Defense Cap

No Defensive Cooldowns that matter

No Parry

No Block

Not a warrior

[Asherdoom 5]

_{i would add one thing to CONS: leather in vanilla have no +def stats so you mst point in massing stamina to resist damage and armor. The con of this is you will take "spike damage" from bosses which cause healers to have heart attacks lol}

[Lorilay 12]

Lorilay, what parts of charm cc are affecting bears when it shouldn't? The mobs that poly you normally didn't when I tanked them.

Oops...I was confusing mind control with charm. It's still a pretty major bummer because your default actions when charmed are to shift to caster and cast hurricane, which leaves you super-OOM on Hakkar after 2 mind controls.

 

Polymorph/Hex immunity is working correctly, which is good for tanking ZF and LBRS (and maybe Jin'do? I forget if he hexes his primary target or not).

Edited December 17, 2016 by Lorilay

[Wortgewandt 5]

Rather than going tank go dps and grab 5/5 thick hide. Grab guardian staff and that's basically it.

If your raid only needs a 3rd ot on 2/3 bosses out of 12, it's a dead slot otherwise.

[mrcer 8]

To add, feral tanks are great for off tanking. My guild will usually bring one to buff our highest performing melee dps. Although they are very gear dependant and advised to be played by an experienced player to minimise the cons and maximize their pros.
 

More pros: tank that can dispel when they don't need to tank. An extra innervate and battle res.

 

If you min/max your druid tank, their cons can be deluded by their extra utilities (crit buff/innervate/brez).

[Undertanker 88]

Yeah a feral should have 4 sets a loot with them in raid.

Bear tank set, cat dps set, +MP5 set for decursive spamming fights, and a +healing set.