Guides are saying go into natural weapons instead of feral instinct, which I don’t understand.
Any druids out there main tank? Give me some advice with what they run?
Probably because you will be DPSing most of the time and off tanking on 2 bosses. Omen is the best pve spec for DPS. Single target is fine it’s just a bit of a nightmare doing any sort of aoe tanking on Druid at the moment.
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Roll a Warrior, that’s the only advice I can give.
I have a huge amount of contempt for Druid tanks, the majority of players who play druid tanks are wannabe tanks and usually not very good at all.
Played bear up to AQ40 farm in 2019 Classic but now going kitty only for SOD.
I have not tested bear as i think damage / threat will be an issue later on but you might want to go 16pts in balance yes (natural weapons + moonfire/ sunfire damage+crit), wild strike on chest and actually sunfire on hands. It will helps a ton both for damage / threat, pulls, to pick running adds etc. Lacerate is terrible and mangle subpar compared to unavoidable solid magic damage. Same for cat. You only take it as a debuff to boost other DPS (war / rogues). 30% for bleeds is huge for them.
But with that said, Bears already have bad street cred (see posters above) so expect problems / challenges to get spots in premades / guild roster. There is mostly minmaxers in Classic pug. That is what made me quit Classic back then in Naxx.
With the amount of crazy aoe some classes are able to dish out, my only advice is to pray that you get some aoe runes to help you. Same goes in fact for all tank specs.
I guess I’ll keep my fingers crossed 
for phase 2 bringing some good aoe threat runes. Like Thrash or demo shout increasing threat by a large amount.
Mangle and lacerate are both better than sunfire. Lacerate now has like 5 rage cost talented which is a high threat specific ability. Sunfire is kinda a meme feral PvP spec that’s pretty strong.
Single target is fine threat wise, but with everyone being so busted with aoe it’s so annoying trying to even hold 2-3 targets.
If you’re just running dungeons I would spec into feral tree. If you’re off tanking in raid then the omen build is the way to go cause you’ll be in cat DPS for 90% of the time.
The omen build sucks for anything other than raid DPS though it’s just not enjoyable outside in comparison to pure feral, feral sunfire or balance starsurge/sunfire.
If you enjoy BG and flag carrying. A feral spec with charge, natures grasp, feline swiftness, starsurge, wild growth & survival of the fittest is a very strong BG build. Need int, stam & SP gear but it’s really fun hybrid tanky healing build with some burst from starsurge.
You dont need to spec into anything specific for bear tanking , you just tank with dps runes / talents and use high stamina gear thats it. Use lancerete on single target bosses and you can only hold threat on ST but druid is bis for ST , on trash well you are trash but others tanks arent great either.For BFD even 2h ret pala can tank it without a problem so nothing to worry about.
I had a run with full bis bfd gear druid tank , he had 2k hp and the tanking rune because we had another feral and windfury was not mandatory for him , his HP never moved and didnt require any tank healing at all , probably the toughest tank in this level bracket
Wondering if feral instinct 5/5 (20% increased threat in bear form) with sunfire would be solid way to hold threat?
I may need experiment.
Doubt his hp never moved, especialy like on last 2 bosses .
He might be tanky, he might never die, but he for sure requires healing as most of raid ( bosses at least) is magic dmg, especialy mentioned last 2 bosses
Honestly; this
Yeah, I get they only need to press 1 button to maintain threat aoe threat.
I just prefer the flavour of druids. I’m just gonna wait and hope phase 2 brings some things to help it out.
Problem is sunfire is 20 rage so it’s not efficient.
Lacerate is 5 rage and mangle 10 talented.
So you can basically spam 4 lacerates on multiple targets by the time you get one sunfire off.
Where is lacerate 5 rage? 
Lacerate is 10 rage
Yeah I was wrong I thought ferocity also effected lacerate to further reduce the rage. Could have sworn it did before before the changed it from 15 to 10 rage. Haven’t really used it much tbh as I only ever really off tank the 2 bosses in BFD from time to time and DPS the rest.
I guess mangle is better then with ferocity at 10 rage.
I think they should just change lacerate to a cleave ability with high threat and it should sort out being able the hold multiple targets. Wouldn’t even have to apply the dot just make it do some damage.