We got our first bear today after a number of heartbreaking near misses and a fair chunk of straight up screw ups on our part. To the best of my knowledge, it is among the first few on our server.
We're a 7/9, 4/5 guild that's been running in the general direction of a bear for a while now. We have about 12-14 people that often make our ZA runs, but a core of 9 or so that have been on most of them...
Tonight we ran with:
Prot Warrior
Prot Pally
BM Hunter
Shadow Priest
Destro Lock
Destro Lock
Shadow Priest
Fire Mage
Holy Pally
CoH Priest
We ended up with about 5 minutes left, which we took as indicator of the fact that we should have been getting bears for a bit now.
This happened to be the first run I
logged, so maybe the key was a parse.
Thank you to all the posters in this thread. It was truly the inspiration for starting our attempts and contained the advice that helped get us a member of the bear calvary.