Feral Druid tanks are currently fairly well balanced, when compared to the other tanking classes
Feral Druid tanks rely mostly on avoiding physical damage and absorbing damage through their mastery.
As a Feral Druid, you are relatively equally well suited for single target and AoE tanking.
Feral Druid tanks have a playstyle that is both easy to learn and easy to master. Additionally, like all Druids, they provide many utility abilities to the raid group, making them a worthy addition.
Note that this guide focuses on aspects which are specific to Feral Druids, and general tanking strategies are beyond its scope.
The following build is the most robust and efficient Feral Druid tanking build. It includes all of the survivability talents as well a fair amount of talents to improve your DPS and threat generation.
Both the Prime and the Minor glyphs are essentially fixed, since there are no alternatives that improve your performance as a tank in any way. For Major glyphs, however, there is a small variation.
You should always use the following
Only the following 3 Minor glyphs provide any benefit to you:
The single target rotation for a Feral Druid Tank is based on this very simple priority system:
The multi target rotation for a Feral Druid Tank is based on this priority system:
There are two debuffs that you should maintain on your target(s) at all times, if no one else is providing them:
Growl is your main taunting ability. It only works on a single target and has an 8-second cooldown.
Challenging Roar is an AoE taunting ability. It forces every tauntable enemy within 10 yards of you to attack you for 6 seconds. It has a 3 minute cooldown (2 minutes and 30 seconds with Glyph of Challenging Roar). Note that this taunt has no effect on the aggro of these mobs, and when the 6 seconds wear off, they will simply return to their previous target (unless you have generated enough threat to keep aggro on them).