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For new bear druids, the Vindicator gear should really be priority #1 as it's so easy to get yet so good for both tanking and dps. I can't stress enough how much easier your life will become just by getting the bracers and belt first as then your defense needs from there are greatly minimized and you have a lot more gearing options. I prefer resilience so I also had a Resolute Cape made when I started Kara way back when. It lasted until I picked up a Pepe's in Hyjal so you can't go wrong by getting one in my opinion.
As far as some helpful tanking tips. I never use Maul unless I have 60+ rage as Maul eats up your white attacks. Doing this lowers the probability of you being rage starved which is very bad for your TPS. So when tanking in a multi-mob situation I pull with fairy fire and make sure my auto attack is on, then mangle and lacerate spam until I have enough rage to add in maul while refreshing mangle on every CD. I tab through each mob and make sure each 1 gets 1 lacerate stack before moving to the next mob. Once every mob has 1 lacerate stack I focus on my main target and hopefully it's dead before the lacerate is up. If it's not then I'll refresh the lacerate stack on the off-tanked mobs.
This works really well until your average swipe damage is in the 150 range at which time you can just use white damage, mangle and swipe to easily hold aggro in multi-mob situations. Hope that helps.
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