That's close to the correct order.

The correct order is:

1) Use Rawr*

*(New update coming tomorrow for level 80 content)

Does anyone else feel that things are in a rather unacceptable state of limbo right now for level 80 feral tanks? Looking at the itemization through wowhead/mmo-champion/etc it makes me wonder whether we should prefer the rogue/cat-type pieces that are high in agility or the warrior/paladin pieces high in strength/stamina with real tanking stats. To me at least it feels like the rather large impending change to the approach for bear tank mitigation (meaning the boost we get for losing all non-leather bonus armor in our multiplier) means it will be fairly impossible to know which way to go when gearing up.

Presumably at least the new methodology will utilize either stats other than agility (due to DR) or be baked into talents (the iLotP change idea mentioned previously), but it seems like whichever way they go will have a huge impact on what pieces are best-in-slot.

Been waiting with HIGH anticipation for the New RAWR, 2.0.3 is missing some stuff for me and I certainly recommend the program to any and all Druids .

Luckily for us at the moment, we only have Eye/Sanctuary/Naxx to worry about loot, all of which are quick and fairly easy to plow through, even casually. My plan is to grab full Tier 7 and collect up the best I can get for the current mechanics and anything that falls in the cracks that the other Rogues/Druids/Tanks don't want. Once Blizzard pins down how our stuff will work, I can begin filtering/deleting/changing my sets.

Then there is still the issue of PvP gear being so dominant for tanking but maybe the new mechanics will favor the offensive oriented PvE gear more?

Well sure the current Brutal gear will pale in comparison (I was planning on getting rid of most of it once in Naxx-25 anyway) but I was speaking more so at the 80 level in attempting to acquire Deadly gear over some of the equal item level PvE pieces. Some are simply stronger in all stats save for offensive ones which is rather silly given our threat output.

Fasc, at least for 10 man raiding, I would happily give up a few dozen stamina and a smidgeon of agility in return for a significant increase in dps while tanking as the tank's damageoutput has the potential to be a significant part of the total raid damageoutput. Having more health does not always beat killing a boss faster.

This is not the actual change being made.

The change is that armor in non-leather slots will not be multiplied by the bear armor multiplier. The secondary change is that all staves will have their armor completely removed.

I've seen this statement (the Bonus armor) one done multiple places, and it's simply incorrect. It probably stemmed from an odd statement GC made, but if you read the original blue post and the examples you can see precisely what GC meant:

I'm Feltest, by the way.

It really depends on the piece of gear in question. The belt/boots/bracers are especially good PvP items for PvE as they have sockets that PvE doesn't have, making it much better in terms of stats. There are a couple of other particularly good pieces - most notably the PvP items that don't compete against the PvE gear with expertise. And we're not talking about a smidgen of agility or stamina; we're talking about 100+ stamina and 50ish agility.

The real big win is that you can get the pvp gear before you go into Naxx, which means you're doing Naxx progression with Naxx-level gear. That's quite strong, and puts druids in quite a good position as progression tanks. If that pattern holds for T8 and 9, it will make them very strong.

Apologies - I was talking about the additional "green" armor on leather pvp gear (aka brutal) not being multiplied (only the underlying base armor on the items). I had forgotten they were removing this component completely in Wrath.

This is something I sincerely hope is addressed in the revamp of mitigation for bears. It would be a true pain if pvp gear were always better on a per-slot basis compared to drops in the raiding zones themselves.

DPS classes like rogues, hunters, enh shamans and fury warriors would most likely get more procs from a zero cd Imp LotP than a bear in single target situation. When I proposed my idea for losing the cd on Imp LotP, I had also suggested that the aura aspect for healing also get removed and make the healing for the druid only, but this was before seeing how Blizzard decided to mess around with Vampiric Embrace. They appear to have the capability of making the healing effect stronger on the originator of the ability than the rest of the raid. Thus, a way to balance the aura aspect to avoid making the ability too strong for non tanking ferals could be to implement half the intended healing to be base line in LotP, and provide the other half in Imp LotP but for the druid only, as well as the proper mana return. As an example, let's say the intended balance is 2% hp restore, 4% mana restore. LotP would provide 1% restoration of hp on crit to anyone with the aura. Then each point of Imp Lotp would increase that by 0.5% and give 2% mana restore per point.

Although, if the parses for healing done by Judgment of Light are accurate and Blizzard considers that to still be within balance, perhaps full effect healing from a no cd Imp LotP isn't even an issue to pve balance. However, there does seem to be inconsistency in how Blizzard is handling passive healing effects, so who knows what's considered too powerful.

Only down side to this is mana consumption, but it does seem vastly better than cat form feral charge since it's on lower CD and actually immobilizes. The only cat form feral charge benefit has been the cute cat "i'm going to kill you" leap animation anyway.