Does anyone else get worried when they say things like this? I care less about cat charge looking cool than about being able to do similar dps in cat as a rogue if I'm specc'd fully for cat. The more time passes, the more blue comments I see that refer to the flexibility of druids as a justification for the dps limitation. I thought the whole point to bloating the tree to ridiculous proportions was to limit that flexibility and justify high cat dps in the first place.

I think they are referring to more utility abilities such as shield wall (other tanking classes have a clicky ability for -50% damage taken etc.)

Every blue quote I've seen is the exact opposite of the above. Cat form is not done yet. Every blue post lately has said this and say that they will be bringing cat dps up to a viable level. As long as our dps combined with our utility, when in a dps role, is on par with the other classes things will be fine and from what I've seen from the blue comments, this is their intent.

I thought resilience no longer "worked" inside instances.

To further clear this: Will resilience be useless because we cann get crit immunity through talents, or will it be useless because they will introduce a new mechanism wich will sort like "disable" it in instances (which I would like to have a quote, because I have not read of something like this yet)?

Does feral charge (cat) share the same cooldown as the bear charge?

Considering Maul has been buffed quite a bit and will now additionally be affected by Savage Fury and Mangle (and possibly RnT if you have the points spare) making Maul a huge threat/damage attack will result in Haste actually beeing a decent threat stat as it will allow for more Mauls in a certain period of time - especially since In quite a few cases we can't burn rage fast enough. So I wouldn't kock it off as a very minor TPS increase just yet.

Haste feeds one single attack; agility/crit and attack power feed all of them. That is why haste is such a poor tanking stat. You will still always be spamming mangle, lacerate and swipe.

He mentions Death Knights here, but the quote is interesting regardless. Druids are largely in the same boat, with wasted defense etc. I hope we can take this to mean that they'll sort out druids in a similar way.

Is that considering the reduction of global cooldown that goes with increased haste?

I definitely would not say the PvP item is far better for tanking. Bonus armor is gone, so it's pointless to compare armor. More total effective points does not necessarily make it a better item. As we saw in BC, there is somewhat of a soft-cap on health where adding more stamina becomes even less valuable. In the end, any agility usually ends up being a more worthwhile stat than stamina. Without the bonus armor and crit immunity from resilience, I'd have to actually check spreadsheets to see which is better. They are at least very close in value. 26 stam is probably better than 6 agi, but if you already have a large HP pool it might not be. It's definitely not enough that someone would go out of their way to PvP to get it if they don't like to.

In addition, it's not really valid to assume they will continue itemization formats into WotLK. Compare Tunic of Dislocation and LK Arena 1 Druid Melee Chest. Yes, one is rare and the other epic... however the ratio of agility to stamina is pretty close and expertise is a more useful tanking stat.