No, and that's exactly my point; Thick Hide for non-Ferals, Reinforced Hide for Ferals. Reread what I wrote; the Hybrids would take the weaker higher talent, and the Deep Ferals would redistribute Thick Hide points into Primal Precision and Primal Tenacity, picking up their +10% Armor contribution lower in the tree.

Given how cheap bonus (Green) armor points are, I don't think that any Druid will have to worry about getting an additional 9,000 armor over ten levels, unless they change the sort of gear Druids tank in from AR-heavy itemized pieces to simple high-AGI Rogue pieces; of course, they'll probably have to figure out a way to do that *and* keep the Bear's absurdly high STA intact as well somehow - the return of the 25% Health Bonus, perhaps?

Except that raid gear is meant to count for higher levels...the levels stop at the cap, but with higher raids, item lvl just keeps going up...such that T3 was "good til 67", T6 will most likely last til at least 75...I think they've also stated gear will scale slower in WoTLK and not be as crazy as TBC...so don't expect to get epic-quality greens at 72

Just because someone can cap now, doesn't mean those who come later, and won't get so much access to T4-6 content (how much of it will die like the others once the expansion hits?) will have such luxury...

Besides, you don't give 2 +10% armor talents and itemize for one...that'd be stupid...

You shouldn't think in a 71-80 bubble about new talents...tier 8 is lvl 60+

This 49k armor cap assumes that they don't inflate armor again like they did in the burning crusade transition. Remember, the formula changes post 60. It may very well change post 70 and we'll be required to have more like 70k armor to cap out. Hard to know for sure at this point.

My friend has a private WotLK server and I noticed that Frenzied Regen is 0.3% of max health per rage on it (its been reported as 0.1% somewhere else) which is better than I expected it to be (0.1% was abit on the low side considering it uses all of our rage).

Berserk is also 2 abilities, one for Cat Form (5min cooldown) and one for Bear Form (2min cooldown) with the Bear Form version increasing health by 30% and not 20%. I'm sort of hoping that they will combine the 2 and add a spell cost reduction for caster form as I suspect that if you shiftout you loose the buff.

Tigers Fury costs no energy and has a 30sec cooldown which makes it pretty nice now as it adds abit of burst and I can defintly see myself using it everytime its off cooldown

Survival of the Fittest now gives you double what it does now meaning we don't need to use defence or resilience for PVE gear. I suspect they changed it because of all the stat juggling we had to do to stay crit immune. Though this does mean we can tank in Cat gear should the tank die, we may not have as much health (Berserk would help here) or armor but we'll have more dodge than in normal tanking gear and we should at least be able to survive till the tank gets combat rezzed and buffed (assuming it can be taunted).

Ferocious Bite's extra damage now scales with Attack Power (it was showing at 11 dmg per energy at 4768 Attack Power with Rank 6 with the lowest being 3.5 dmg per energy at 0 Attack Power which would give about 0.0015 - 0.0157 additional dmg per attack power per energy).

Omen of Clarity is passive.

Note: I'm pretty sure tooltip data is taken from the actual WoW client so while it may not remain this way, it should be the same as whats in the current Alpha.

5 min cooldown for Cat form makes sense (same as adrenaline rush). But 2 min cooldown on last stand? That seems somewhat unbalanced. As for FB 11 DPE is still far too low for you to want to actually use more than 35 energy for your bites.

Wasn't Warrior last stand getting it's cooldown reduced to something around 2 or 3 minutes? Even if the warrior version is at 5-minutes, pre-talents, I don't think that having the druid version be at 2 is horribly unbalancing, given that it's the 51 point talent and whatnot.

This is an extra 1100 damage with 100 energy with the best gear (though unbuffed) excluding another 15% with Feral Aggression, another 10% with Naturalist and another 10% with Predatory Instincts if it crits. This would be an additional 3061 damage if it crits (although this is obviously assuming the best case senario). IMO I don't think they could buff it more than that otherwise it would be far too much burst.

It only affects the extra energy. So it's 786 extra damage (65*11*1.1) not 1100, and 1620 on crit (1863 with talent). I don't even know where you pulled that 3k+ number from. I would much rather have an even larger burst over 1-2 seconds more using Shred or even Mangle. It's just not worth the energy.

Could still be 100 on a OoC proc, not that I would recommend spending energy in that way.

It wasn't mentioned in the OP, but IIRC, Ferocious Bite's energy to damage conversion will scale with AP.

As well, Tiger's Fury will no longer cost any energy, but will have a cooldown instead (I'm not sure how long though).

I know it only effects extra energy, I was simply assuming the best conditions for it and I never said it would be better than using a shred or mangle before it either. I was simply suggesting that in a single move that imo it would be too much burst if they increased it any more. I see our Feriocous Bite as a quick way to either burn all your energy before a shift or a PVP finisher so while you could use a shred or mangle before it then there is a chance in the global cooldown that they could out range you or get healed.