Tanking Combination

[shaak]

Recently me and a guildy were arguing about which tank is better, Prot Warrior or Feral Druid. When he asked me, "why is feral druid better then prot warrior?", I had no idea how to answer him. All I know is most top end guilds use the Prot Pally/Feral Druid comp.

Is there any reason you use a feral druid over a prot warrior on most fights? I'm guessing it's just for fights where you need to squeeze every bit of dps you can get out of the raid.

[Lazei]

Feral's much better dps is a big bonus as you said. With agi gems and dps reforges you can easily off tank in bosses like Baleroc and Ryolith. Gearing up used to make a bigger difference before but it's still nice to get loots easier during progress when you have one tank picking up all items for plate tanks and a druid picking up leather and agi rings/necks.

Innervate and combat res have both been nerfed pretty heavily but before Cataclysm both of those were pretty huge deal.