Question from an old tree wanting fresh fun

It’ll depend on how much DPS you want to do. I took 5 points from Feral Aggression and added them to Shedding Attacks and King of the Jungle in order to make kitty spec viable. By viable, I mean I can generally compete with the lesser DPS in a raid. The spec is mostly useful for DPSing heriocs and other badge runs when we have an abundance of tanks and heals. Remembering back to a post in the ‘Bored Druid Thread’ I think Maz also has run with a similar build, though I won’t put words in his mouth.
I don’t think I’ve heard of a feral both tanking and DPSing well on progression content in the same build. However I’ve been known to miss stuff too.
-NO. You will NOT break the $& shackle! – Jilea
that monster in the mirror, he just might be you. – Grover
As far as I know, you can OT (read: tank L82 adds, not swap tanks on Northrend Beasts) in a dps spec with tank gear. You get the crit immunity in the dps spec and can survive well enough. You’ll be missing the heavy duty talents like Protector of the Pack and Natural Reaction, but those are hardly necessary for something that isn’t hitting like a raidboss.
I just run a full tank and dps spec, myself. Someday I’ll make another druid to do boomkin and tree again. -Norellicus – FFXI
Ranawaran – WoWDear All. I thought I would shape-shift out of treeform for a while and try something new but have hit a little dilemma and would greatly appreciate some help.
The short story – is there a viable hybrid kitty/bear spec that can give me reasonable dps/tanking dependent on just changing gear? My feeling is that this is no longer possible…
The longer story – I am MH in the guild and greatly enjoying the role in progression content but have become disillusioned and not really required to help out with healing on heroics/Uld and Naxx-10 mans etc for undergeared people (we need to give new healers experience etc.). The problem is that I am often needed to make up numbers. Sometimes as a OT bear and sometimes as kitty melee DPS and three specs don’t fit into two… or do they? I’m currently off-spec’d out-and-out bear.