The big problem is not when there's a piece of gear that one spec of one class wants. It's when that piece of gear is so bad that it's not even worth using in many situations. See BWL trinket, Hydross trinket, all expansion feral tanking idols, perhaps the Ashtongue trinket (not a drop but still), Pillar of Ferocity... Heck, it took a massive revision for our tier sets to be balanced in a worthwhile manner. If an item is only useful to the undergeared/improperly geared, it shouldn't be in a raid instance.

But, this derail already has its own thread over in general discussion.

I doubt anyone would complain for more items via the crafted recipe drops/rep vendor way. Why aren't they doing that? It's so easy and doesn't step on other people's toes at all - if we ignore the DKP meta game for a moment here (and this is hardly something that should stop Blizzard from doing it).
That is the one way of doing it (via items).

The second way is related to something we talked about a looooooooong time ago, so maybe some people remember it.
The point was about Bear/Cat hybrid items which basically all our Tier items are. I didn't think it was that great of an idea (and for weapons it is asisine, sup Pillar of Ferocity?) but I came to terms with it. I would still appreciate special Cat and Bear items but I understand that doing this avoids cluttering up the loot tables.
Bear form scales exceptionally well with stats like armor, agility and stamina already and this is why hybrid Cat/Bear items work at all. Let's face it, if they itemized properly for bear (i.e., increase Stamina, swap Agility with Strength and so on) we'd put other tanks out of their jobs. Like I said, that is because of all the scaling modifiers they gave Bears.

Now to finally get to the point: Why aren't they doing this for Cat? Where are the scaling mods for Cat? HotW is outdated in it's current form as mentioned above - I am talking about stuff that scales from Rogue stats. You know, stuff like "Increases your Agility/AP by X% while in Cat form".

If they did that, it would not only help to reduce loot problems because then there would only be "Feral leather" (Bear/Cat hybrid items) and "Rogue leather" which now works just as well for Cat because of the new modifiers. It would also give Ferals item options for every slot which aren't outright subpar as they are now.

Frankly speaking if they do Feral stuff right, drops or vendor or rep, no druid will roll on other classes' stuff

This might seem like a stupid question. My guild is going to be attempting Void Reaver soon and the current strat is to have me tank first since my threat gen is better.
My question is after the deaggro would I be better of staying bear or going cat to try and get my threat back up?

I can't see the point of you beginning, because as druid you can create good thread without getting hit but your warrior buddy cannot.
So he is the limiting factor for your raiddps cause all others have to be at least on the third place in the aggrolist to not get aggro when you are kicked.

Therefore the warrior starting to tank is the better idea in my opinion. *shrug*

And for your question stay in bearform. You shouldn't have much problem with rage or threat generation.

Edit: to late :/

Druid going second is probably better due to the fact that the warriors cannot build as solid threat despite pounding when compared to the druid's capabilities.

when in cat form, you receive passive -29% threat generation, so unless you're doing like 1.2k dps gear in tank gear (i assume you're wearing that), you will generate less threat than you would have in bear form

A few pages back there was a mention of a debuff filter that could sort out mangle, yet I can't get it to work or it just seems plain incompatible (I suspect using x-perl ui frames could be the cause). Is there any other solution? I've respecced feral after being resto for the past 6 months and it's making my life hell in a new guild with multiple feral druids when I can't tell whether mangle is up or not.

Heh, I was able to go first and tank the entire thing from 100% to 0% this week. Void Reaver is a lot easier when you don't have to tank swap or have to worry about another tank being second.

NECB works great, I use it to track my debuffs while tanking and DPSing as well as my HoT timers on my alt.

I just have pitbull set to filter debuffs, so that the only things I can see are druid debuffs. You could use DFilter though, which is completely configurable as to what it shows.

I bet it was not your first kill where you did tank him from 100-0% without tankswitch, which was the question from Forcei
I suppose you have to "outgear" the fight for a bit to be able to generate that much threat, while being in "tankgear".

We had our firstkill when i was wearing 2/5 T4 and some clefthoof tanking pieces (yeah no attunements). Nevertheless he doesn't hit that hard and tanking him was rather easy from my point of view. The "hard" part is not the tanking imho, its more ranged avoiding the orbs and melee the pounding and get enough dps with that much running around.

@Debuffs: I use Chronometer for this purpose and it serves me quite well. It goes beyond mangle debuff, showing me the duration of every of my "over time spell" (e.g. Demoshout, Mangle, Lacerate...) and when I'm backup healing its also nice to have an overview of my HoTs.