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Comment by Txero33

Wearing cloth armor will drastically hurt your bear armor.

Wearing gear with extra armor on it is a great idea. (i.e. Rings, weapons, exceptionally high armored pieces, etc.)

Comment by 24111

I just passed level 10 with my druid (now i'm 12). With selfmade Embossed and similar level of leatherworking armor parts i've got arround 1000 armor whitch is much more than a typical Warrior, with extra stamina HP is 512 on that level. So druid is quite better in this part, but while shapeshifted you will still lack threat generating skills, so tell all your party mates to give you a few seconds to build aggro, and try not to attack "red level" monsters, they will resist your Growl, and hit you to hard to build aggro without healing. I mentained a level 12 elite while on 10, so it's possible, but really hard, as monsters will resist your taunt often.

Comment by 43672

how do you transform into a boar?
i just past 10( im am lvl 11) but i dont know how to trans into o boar..
can anybody help me plz.?

Comment by 71496

People keep calling it "beer form" for some reason.

Comment by Toldry

UNTAMABLE

Comment by pelf

Druids in Cat Form, Bear Form, Travel Form or Travel Form, are treated as Beasts, and thus are susceptible to Hunters' Scare Beast. Also, they will not show up on Track Humanoids but will show up on Track Beasts.
Druids in Incarnation: Tree of Life are treated as Elementals and thus are susceptible to Banish and .

EDIT: For patch accuracy. Thanks for the responses.

~~Druids in Cat, Bear, Dire Bear, Travel or Aquatic form, due to not being humanoid anymore, cannot be sapped.~~

Comment by 121016

i am druid lvl 10 but trainer not training bear form{shapeshift}
how can learn bear form{shape shift}

Comment by 144342

It is a Realy Good PvP form, But they can't use pots and that is sad.

Comment by 174228

but who will pvp in tree form?

Comment by Zeldendorf

Still can't sap tree of life :P

Comment by Dragonskull1111

The druid bear/cat forms are getting a new "skin" in patch 3.2. Blizzard already released a picture of the new bear form skins here and here.

Comment by Suzaku

In patch 3.2, the appearance of druid bear and cat forms will be redesigned, with five different color schemes to chose from, based on the druid's hair (night elf) or skin (tauren) color.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/druid-forms.html

Comment by 227308

Bare Durids 4 Tank!

Comment by 366977

this form has the strength to tank 5 GORILLAS

Comment by 430501

troll druid forms moonkin cat and bear are gonna be something like this http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs48/f/2009/230/6/1/Troll_Druid_Forms_by_Kanaru92.jpg

Comment by dreadblood

holy shi- those are awsome!

Comment by 606559

Did anyone else notice that the picture had 5 paws while the form itself only has 4? :P

Comment by loik

Dire bear form no longer exists in Cata.
Now Bear form scales with level.

Comment by 370864

Worgen and Troll feral forms.

The link added by Reapper almost a year ago it's pretty accurate.

Comment by 746298

I just submitted several screenshots for bothe the Troll and Worgen Bear forms since thier are hardly any yet posted. I did use hair color referance in classifying each bear and they are labled as i saw them on my computer. (*note for Worgens the color hair you have in your human side determines your form color, and is difficult to change the color since you have to be in Worgen side to use the barber's. the colors are as followed going right starting with: black, Brown, Pale Tan, Red, and last a Golden Blonde)

i know most people wont care but for those people like me that do i hope thes screenshots and information helps :)

Comment by Deathsaber

Bare druid is B 4 tank, they doesn't have guns in HED though lol!
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Comment by 634937

No more quest to get this. Instead, you learn it at a trainer at level 15. Kind of sad that they removed the questline, I thought it was cool. It made you feel like you were really gaining a powerful ability :)

Comment by 372064

Despite of this being the form to tank with, in BC and WotLK content this is the form to go if you want to level fast as feral.

Altho Catform is the DPS form, it takes a while for it's damage to build up - while the health the mobs have favor burst over dots.

Therefor, you can 2-3 shot mobs in Bearform, while you take around twice or thrice the amount of time to kill em in Catform.

Not to mention the ability to pull groups of 10-15 and AoEing them down thanks to Savage Defense.

Comment by seahen

OK, Sum durids is bare. Tehm whos bare durids, can B 4 tank.

Comment by 466727

http://www.wowhead.com/npc=12678#.

http://www.wowhead.com/npc=17827#.

-view in 3D option= NE and Tauren animations :D

Comment by 1057570

OKAY GUYS IMA BE NICE AND GIVE YOU THE ULTIMATE MACRO'S FOR BEAR TANKING IN MISTS OF PANDARIA 5.1
THESE MACRO'S WILL MAXIMIZE YOUR RAGE GENERATION, ACTIVE MITIGATION, AND DAMAGE ALL WITH 1 BUTTON
ENJOY

MACRO 1 AOE

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=nocombat swipe, thrash, swipe, mangle
/cast savage defense

MACRO 2 SINGLE TARGET

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=nocombat mangle, lacerate, thrash, lacerate
/cast savage defense

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Comment by 1026168

First time tank here, so BEAR with me...

Comment by ceasure

The stamina increase has been boosted from 20% to a whopping 40% in patch 5.4 ptr, let's hope that it sticks.

Comment by Ghawn

It's getting nerfed in WoD down to 180% stamina :( There's a druid perk raising the stamina 10% more though, but the armor won't be increased.

The perk for this is ... I just hope Blizzard releases a glyph to make this better as it used to be.

Comment by Eido

Blizzard answering questions about Shapeshift forms, Blizzcon 2014 (source):

"In shapeshift form could it be a real animal roar?"
You want a roar for each specific animal?
"No but if you do a /roar, you sound like a Troll or something."
Noted. Good idea.

I hope for this! Like the Worgen form roar vs the Human roar, it must be possible!

Comment by hotaru251

What are they doing to bears?
They say they plan for bears to be "high health; high armor" tanks.
and now bear forms losing 50% armor bonus :l..

wtf blizz v_v

Comment by danaphantom

Is there anywhere that a person can view all the various models and colors of bears in the model viewer?

Comment by rodalpho

The devs told us exactly how 7.0 Bear Form rage generation works at the links below.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20743504316?page=13#248

I'm pasting it here as they typically delete the beta forums after release.

Q: What is the base rage gain per white attack in Bear Form?

7.875 for level 20 and up (It’s higher before that, but I doubt you care). It’s 1.75 baseline, * 2.5 attack speed, * 1.8 bear form multiplier.

Comment by jgristwood

Am I missing something? As a balance Druid, when I shift into Bear Form, I have no Bear abilities. Am I just supposed to stand there? I can't even auto attack.. where is Mangle, Thrash etc?

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Bear Form

Bear Form

Instant

Shapeshift into Bear Form, increasing armor by 220% and Stamina by 25%, granting protection from Polymorph effects, and increasing threat generation.

The act of shapeshifting frees you from movement impairing effects.

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Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Shapeshift (Bear Form)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Allow Affected Spells to be Used in Any Stance (0)
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Moonfire

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Mod Attacker Melee Crit Chance - %
Value: -6%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #4

Apply Aura: Mod Base Resistance - % (Physical)
Value: 220%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #5

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Polymorphed)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #6

Apply Aura: Mod Expertise
Value: 3
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #7

Apply Aura: Modifies Power Cost (14)
Value: -100%
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Thrash		Brutal Slash

Effect #8

Apply Aura: Modifies Threat (2)
Value: -100%
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Cenarion Ward		Renewal

Effect #9

Apply Aura: Modifies Cast Time (10)
Value: -100 milliseconds%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #10

Apply Aura: Dummy
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script

Effect #11

Apply Aura: Allow Affected Spells to be Used in Any Stance (0)
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Moonfire

Flags

Is Ability
Do Not Sheath
Can be used while sitting
Generates no threat
Unaffected by school immunity
Include in Advanced Combat Log
Allow Entering Arena
Aura Points On Client
Allow Class Ability Procs
Allow Aura On Level Scale

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