Feral druid tanks have the highest health pool in the game. It absorbs damage and gives enough time for the healers to fully heal them. Next to blood death knights, they are the preferred off tanks. However, the damage that a feral druid can do is the highest of all Wotlk tanks, meanwhile Blood Dk can provide Hysteria.

Stats for Feral Druid Tank Wotlk

Stat priority

8% hit cap > 16 Expertise > Stamina > Armor > Avoidance

Note: For Halion and Syndragosa the expertise needed is 50, has for each time these bosses parry, their attack speed increases by a lot.

Feral Druid Tank Stats Overview

Hit Cap

Melee hit cap is 8%, it increases the chance to hit the target, missing attacks and abilities will reduce threat by a lot, and with it the ability to tank properly.

Expertise

Expertise lowers the chance of getting dodged or parried. Has a melee class 26 expertise is the soft cap, with [Primal Precision] giving 10 expertise 16 expertise is the amount needed.

Stamina

Stamina increases the health pool, by having a larger health pool the healers will have more time to heal, plus with the stamina increase by Dire Bear Form the value of each point of stamina is increased.

Armor

Armor reduces the amount of damage taken by a percentage, it’s the best stat after stamina. Armor is capped at 42000, or 75% damage reduction.

Avoidance

Dodge is a good stat, however, it’s based on RNG with diminishing returns, the value of it is even more reduced in ICC with the 20% decrease debuff.

Stats Breakdown without increasing effects

33 hit rating ≈ 1% to hit

33 expertise rating ≈ 1 expertise

33 haste rating ≈ 1% haste

45 critical chance ≈ 1% critical

1 stamina ≈ 10 Health

1 intellect ≈ 15 mana

1 agility ≈ 1 attack power

1 strength ≈ 2 attack power

1 critical chance ≈ 84 agility

14 Armor Penetration ≈ 1% Armor ignore