Hi guys.
It's been a while since i posted here and as i read through the "new posts"(2 days or so) and i see that a lot is going on :wavey:

My question:
Does Mongoose proc now in bear-form too?
Cause that would make it a nice tanking-enchant for your main-weapon. In terms of Aggro and Mitigation.

Roarrr!!!

Mongoose should now proc for bears. I have not tried it yet because I was under the impression the +35 agi was still better. I could be wrong though.

From what I've read Mongoose is quite a bit better for bears and barely better for cats than +35 agi.

Welcome back, Serg!

I use mongoose on my tanking staff and I love it. With all the raid haste buffs, item haste, and the proc I can get my bear swing timer down to an even 2 seconds.

Off topic, but here's a fun bear tank story for a couple nights ago. We were slumming in Tempest Keep to get the Kael achievement for some folks. Our old Warrior MT is switching to a Ret pally for Wrath so I am taking over MT duties as a bear. Obviously I can't use the shield so we knew the possibility for singed bear was likely if a pyroblast got off.

Needless to say it happened... Kael winds up to cast and I can tell I'm toast, but I figure what the hell, I might as well see if I can pop everything I have and try and live through it. Up goes survival instincts; up goes barkskin; up goes my hands clasped in prayer... boom, down goes the bear. I nearly pulled it off, though. I ended up resisting half of it and the extra health left me about 2k short of surviving. Maybe next time, lol, but at least we ended up killing him.

I'll stay using +35 agi, but i think mongoose is procing

Just curious Cinnas, how much health unbuffed did you have? Just wondering if there is any way for us to survive it.

I'm not sure exactly what my unbuffed health is off the top of my head. With survival instincts I was sitting at about 31k in the kael raid. I could have had a little bit more if I gemmed 100% for stamina and used a second stamina trinket. I also could try to use something like a Nightmare Seed (assuming it stacks) to push me over the top.

With the seed and loading up all the sta I can I think it's survivable. Also, I only have 1 piece tier 6 so far and a mix of tier 5 etc. If you had a full tier 6 set gemmed for sta you'd be that much higher

Mongoose does proc in feral forms. I raided as resto pre-TBC, and since it went live I've spent everyday being feral. I must say when I first logged in after the patch and saw the nerf to bear form and the bonus armor on most of my gear I was extremely upset. I was capped out in dmg reduction. After giving it a go and seeing all the other nice things they've done for us, it's not so bad. Wouldnt really call it a nerf just being fine tuned a bit.

Still plan on leveling boomkin to 80 though.