So, last night I main tanked in Karazhan for the first time. It was one of the scariest things I've ever done in WoW. During the pulls to Attumen, my hands were shaking. It took me until Moroes to calm down and start enjoying it. I've been to Kara X amount of times, but mostly as a healer and occasionally a DPS, so I just don't know it from the front, so to speak. It also helped that I had great healers and damage-dealers backing me up, and my co-raid leader was in there to help me with the marking.
I do have to say ... Tanking Curator was far easier than damaging or healing in that fight. All I had to do was stand in one place and generate hate. It was very nice not to have to worry about the flares.
Personally, I think that the more roles you can play in a game, the better you become at it. I'd reccommend anyone to try tanking or healing if all they've done is DPS, just because it gives you such a different scope on WoW. I find that because I've tanked, I watch my aggro. Because I've healed, I watch my line of sight. Because I've damaged/crowd controlled, I know where to pull things to. Being a different role in a group situation is almost like you're playing a different game.
If you wouldn't mind sharing, Could you link your tanking gear. I've been slowly gathering feral offspec items and I'd like to compare my set to yours. If I can tank Kara It'd help my guild quite a bit. We're at a point where me healing kara could be a solo effort. But we have undergeared healers who need to get in there.
Having just lost a tank, and 2 others went fury, It'd be great to know I can do it! hehe
I probably should have made it clearer, but I tanked it on my warrior, Yolana.
Here are links to the profiles for some of the tanky druids in our guild, though. I've seen them all tank pretty much everything in there and done it well.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Argent+Dawn&n=Wicaya
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Argent+Dawn&n=Mystwynd
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Argent+Dawn&n=Naturalism
The non-plate pieces I use are a necklace from a quest in Sethekk Halls, a cloak from Black Morass, a ring from the BM quest and the ring from the Violet Eye, and one trinket is from a Hellfire Penninsula quest, the other from Shadow Lab.
This is the thread I used to help myself get geared up, it might help you on non-plate pieces: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3421023546&sid=1
Here's an article on gear on WowWiki: http://www.wowwiki.com/Bear_Tanking_Gear
And these are our guild's min stats for tanking Kara as a bear. If you have these stats, you should be able to do it. If you're gonna respec feral you'll be fine. Doing it as a restoration druid I'm not so sure about, but then I've seen a holy paladin healing Kara.
----------Druid (feral tank)---------
All numbers are unbuffed
15k armor
10k hp
415 defense (+ Survival of the Fittest feral talent)
20% dodge
I've duo-healed Kara with another druid, but I don't think I could solo heal it!
If I may interject, as the master of this here overall site, that I think what Alyviel meant to do was actually tell you the items. Her necklace, for instance, is Mark of the Ravenguard while her cloak is Burnoose of Shifting Ages. For rings she has Andormu's Tear and Violet Signet which she got at Honored with the Violet Eye. For trinkets, she definitely has Regal Protectorate but for a drop in shadow Labyrinth, it is likely Adamantine Figurine. Enjoy your farming!
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