by Ivina » Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:45 pm
The only reason a raid lead would prefer to keep a 3rd or even more warrior offtanks instead of using a feral druid is plain ignorance of feral druid capacities.
Feral druid is the best tank on several raid encounters. This includes a "checkpoint" boss like Vael, on which feral druid is an optimal option considering DPS then tanking.
On other encounters, the ability of feral druid to be a very good tank and a good DPS with one spec, and only by switching gear, makes it a better option than warrior for 3rd and next tanks.
I hope those speaking about debuff limits don't think feral dps is limited if bleeding effects are forbidden. This is vanilla, not BC or other extensions. The feral druid in raid is supposed to use ferocious bite, which consumes all energy, then quick demorph-remorph to gain 40 energy.