The reason at this point is that getting a heal before you die is not a problem in the cata world.

However, healer mana is limited quite a bit and avoiding attacks will net your healers less damage to heal over time, making you able to survive longer.

Gemming basically exclusive stamina is going bye-bye, unless we start getting 2 shot in heroic raids.

Yeah, the reason is that the enchant requires 525 chanting, along with 5 Maelstrom Crystals to buy alone. Then it also requires 6 Maelstrom Crystals to do the enchant. So even if you're on a big server, Maelstrom Crystals are more than likely absurdly expensive, if available at all.

130 Agi is relatively cheap and very available once your enchanter gets their new rod.

But is 130 agi perferred, or in the long run, you want to aim for the +600 dodge proc?

I looted [Fury of Angerforge] last night but not quite sure if it is a really upgrade over the currently rare ones that I use, [Mark of Khardros] and [Heart of Solace]. Any thought on that?

One additonal note, since Fire Blast is an Instant Spell and is also available to be buffed with a talent point, I have been mixing it into my rotations on the 2nd and 3rd phase of a fight. It has been proc'ing AM alot. When I do throw it in, being keybound, I hit that then Barrage almost instantly if I don't see the proc from Missiles. That gives me 2 spell chances before going back to AB again.

I believe using this will work out better than mixing in Flame Orb.

My personal findings thus far, is that no matter whether you gem stamina(which we, as a community of tanking Druids, are mostly against), you can still get through normal content.

Example:

When Adept was world first heroic earlier last week, I checked their druid tank; BOOM, all stamina gems, reforged for expertise/hit. Zero dodge reforging.

What's that say?

Means that it makes a small enough difference that with good players around you, whatever you do, you can succeed. However effective it is compared to the other strategies isn't as huge a difference as we make it out to be.

If you check out the official forums, there are quite a few of us that wield the torch and try to bring good information to the masses, however drowned out it is. We had some very very very good discussions on the official forums over the past few months about avoidance, and we realized it would be a very good stat for bears in tier 11 content.

So what you are saying is that there is no one correct model? That a druid that gears for dodge/avoidance can just as well as Stam/Mitigation sole based on the other players around them?

Ah, I see. It sounds like that the druid is depending on the play skill of the people around him/her in order to play a style that he/she is comfortable with(stack stam), rather than one that is, generally, more healer friendly and safer(dodge/avoidance).

Is there another Blood spec out there, I've tried the Lichborne/Death Coil and it just seems to not be worth anything, my heals are always keeping me pretty alive and Death Strike is also helping a lot too. I'm just seeing if there was an alternative as that spec although is good for some, just isn't something for me as the healing hasn't really helped all that much.

Ive been meaning to test UF at the start of each new FS refresh, bc it seems to me that it would be a DPS increase but with all the post I have read, seems as if no one gets a real DPS increase. Ill be posting some logs soon.

I would think not. Until we can get landslide id say go with Hurricane if you have a good weapon to put it on. If your talking about a herioc blue that maybe it isnt to bad. For me I have Zin Rokh so I put Hurricane on it in the mean time. It procs really well and I don't believe it has a ICD.